LL Cool J has shared his thoughts on Miranda Lambert interrupting her concert to publicly call out fans taking selfies.
The 39-year-old country singer recently sparked controversy after viral footage emerged from her Saturday (July 15) show at the Bakkt Theater in Las Vegas.
Lambert can be seen performing a bit of her 2016 single 'Tin Man,' before instructing her band to pause the music so that she can address a group of concertgoers posing for a photo in the VIP section.
"I'm going to stop right here for a second," Lambert said. "These girls are worried about their selfies and not listening to the song. It's pissing me off a little bit. I don't like it. At all. We're here to hear some country music tonight. I'm singing some country damn music."
After the interruption, fans gave Lambert wild applause and she then retook the song from the top.
Watch the moment below:LL Cool J's decided to share his take on the current discourse surrounding the 'Drunk' musician during his appearance on Audacy's Mercedes in the Morning on Wednesday (July 19).
"Miranda, get over it, baby," the 55-year-old 'Momma Said Knock You Out' rapper said with a laugh, before adding: "They're fans."
The musician - whose full name is James Todd Smith - expressed that he wouldn't halt his concert over a picture, explaining: "Your job as an artist is to create art."
"The way people choose to interact with that art - or engage it or appreciate it - is up to them. You gotta let the fans do what they wanna do," he continued. "What, we got rules?"
The NCIS actor stated that Lambert has to let "fans do what they wanna do" but noted that he's "not going to judge" how she wants her supporters to behave at her shows.
"I have nothing unkind to say about her," LL Cool J added. "I wish her the best. She has the right to her feelings but for me, I let the fans be fans and do what they want to do."
The 'Headsprung' rapper is not the first star to weigh in on selfie-gate. During Tuesday's (July 18) episode of The View, a discussion about the topic turned heated when co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg took opposing sides.
The 67-year-old Sister Act star said: "If they paid money for the tickets, they came to see her. So if she's singing, at least show a little respect. Acknowledge [that if] you can see her, she can see you too! She can see what you're doing and she can see that you're ignoring her."
"It's like being a lounge singer. You go into a bar, somebody's at the piano, and nobody's listening! That's what it's like for her," she added before the 54-year-old lawyer contended: "I'm going to take as many selfies as I want if I pay $757," adding, "I'm sorry, that's just me."
Whoopi then told Hostin "stay home" if she will take pictures at a concert, and then tried to make a point about disruption by walking off the set to take a selfie with an audience member.
"I'm leaving y'all!" she said. "I want to take a picture with this marvelous woman, who is 91. So, we're going to do a selfie."
The 'Somethin Bad' singer has not publicly spoken out about the incident, however, one of the women who were a part of the selfie group has hit back.
Influencer Adela Cali, who later posted the picture to Instagram, told NBC News that the pictures took "30 seconds at most," and said: "We took the picture quickly and were going to sit back down."
Calin recalled that she and her friends had tried to take some snaps before the show had started, but "the lighting wasn’t great," so instead, she asked a fan behind the group to take the photo before it ended.
"We just couldn't get one good picture," the influencer said. "We were so excited because I think we had the best seats in the house in the whole theater."
Calin also told Good Morning America that the concert "was not the same," after the moment, explaining: "I thought, I feel like I'm being back in school and me and my friends did something that annoyed the teacher and she scolded us so she told us to sit down."
"Everybody was having such a great time. We would stand up at times and dance. It was great energy. But after that happened it was just, um, it was not the same," Calin added.
