Jason Aldean is standing his ground after people slammed his latest music video, “Try That in a Small Town,” for racist and “pro-lynching” connotations.

“‘I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I am this, suggesting I am that,” he said while onstage in Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday night in a video posted to Twitter.

“Here’s the thing, I feel like everybody is entitled to their opinion you can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it is true.”

In the clip, the audience cheered as the country star declared himself a “proud American.”

“I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bulls—t started happening to us,” he added.