Let he who has not told a female rapper he wanted to eat her booty on Instagram cast the first stone. That's how the old Bible passage goes, right?
For those of you playing catch up, Nicki Minaj posted a particularly eye-catching picture on her Instagram page on Saturday afternoon, flaunting her assets for all of social media to see. Minaj is not even a little bit shy, so it was not a surprise to see "flexing for the 'Gram" was on her to-do list over the weekend.
The comments on a Minaj Instagram—particularly one of this nature—are almost always messy, as men and women alike battle for the right to post the thirstiest comments possible. But this post stands out from the rest, because one thirsty gentlemen in particular got himself in hot water with his comment.
This pastor wants to eat Nicki Minaj's Ass 🙆 pic.twitter.com/bzG1VC0yVA
The man in question was identified as William Henry Dewberry III, whose Facebook page lists him as an Elder at the Church of God in Christ in Memphis, Tennessee. Yes, this self-described "God Fearing Man & Pastor" appears to have been caught telling Nicki Minaj he wanted to eat her ass in a public forum.
But there are quite a few holes in this story. For one, the church he has listed as his professional home is not even remotely close to where he keeps his actual home. His location on Facebook (in addition to recent photos) places him in Columbus, Georgia, which is a six-plus hour drive from the Church of God in Christ. Perhaps Dewberry just hasn't updated where he sets up shop yet—and he has moved around a bit due to work with the U.S. Army—but it's a red flag all the same.
There's also a recent post from the "dewberry_2017" account that does not look at all pastor-like, with the page going on an extended, profanity-laced tirade directed at a woman on Facebook.
On his behalf, the real Dewberry is denying the profile in question belongs to him. In a post on his Facebook page, Dewberry asked his friends to report the account claiming to be him.
"Saints, I need your help," reads Dewberry's post. "Somebody created a fake Instagram page under my name. I don't know who did this. But, this needs to come down ASAP! May somebody report this IMMEDIATELY! I did not create this. I already have an Instagram page, and this one ain't me!!!!"
The account he claims is private, so it's hard to verify, but at the very least has a different picture and is a separate entity from the account that told Nicki Minaj they were coming for her booty.
If "dewberry_2017" is an imposter, they've done a damn good job of keeping this act up. Someone has been cataloging photos of Dewberry and his loved ones from that account since January 2016, over a year-and-a-half prior to the comment being dropped on Minaj's instagram. That's a difficult act to keep up for that amount of time, and some of Dewberry's own Facebook friends remained unconvinced that he was being duped.
Will the real Dewberry please stand up? I suppose this is an unsolved mystery for now, up there in scale with whether Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are real.
Complex has reached out to Dewberry for comment, and will update this post if we hear back from him. In the meantime, everyone do yourself a favor and stop leaving thirsty comments on social media feeds, regardless of your profession or who the subject of admiration is. It's almost never going to end well.
