The 27-year-old apologized after a widely shared video showed him using a racial slur. In an industry not known for change, music stars like Dolly Parton are speaking up about racial inequality.
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Shut up
His career is gone. No turn back
Why can labron James get to threaten a cop but not get suspended I think it's a double standard here.
so its bad when a white guy says nigger 1 time but when a black rapper says nigga about 20 times in one song thats ok and a black rap band to be called NWA ( Niggaz with attitude )
How come half of the rap artists hasn't been dropped by the record label thay are saying the word and singing about it . It's b*****
What a load of garbage propaganda…whatever…next…
This whole thing was a ploy to get more sales for his album. Controversy creates cash.
Y’all did not pay attention to this video at all oh my fucking God
Why the hell are you all supporting him in the comments??? Are y’all dumb?? He’s literally a trash person I-
Whites are held to a double standard these days and it's pure bullshit.
He called is white friend the n word ending with a. People need to get over it. He has gotten more exposure and more fame. Didn’t do anything racist at all. In fact I wanna buy his album even though I don’t really listen to country music.
That women is terrifying. Her thought process is upside down. You dont look around and say o gez i only have white people around me im going to hell im so bad ???? Wtf… You should be concerned when the people around you are making the wrong choices or common sense says something bad. Dont ever go into a situation with people and say im surrounded by so and so color i better reevaluate my life. That thinking will ruin this country which clearly is already happening.
Get over it and let him get his life back together he was not saying anything about some one from the party it was a thing between him and his girl let him sing
The fact that Morgan is essentially being blamed for there not being spotlight for black singers in country is the most far reaching thing 😂 First of all, he’s not racist. His BLACK friend Jimmie Allen stood up for him and said many people don’t know that Morgan listens to a lot of hip hop where the N word can get embedded into your brain after hearing it so often. Should he have said the word? Obviously not. But maybe that entire genre of music needs to take some accountability for creating such a positive culture around that word and glorifying it. It’s easy to look at Morgan and stereotype him as a racist because of his southern accent, mullet, and the way he dresses. The media has made him out to be an absolute monster. How about someone shows the truth about him for once? The truth that Jimmie and many of his fans have been smart enough to see – Morgan has a drinking problem that has been causing him to act out over the last year. No one cared to address that in country music. Everyone just wanted to jump on the cancel culture bandwagon and completely villainize him. It disgusts me to my core how people have ignored someone who has clearly been crying out for help. All of those people better not come running back to Morgan when he’s on top again because they have shown how fake they are and how much they care about condemning him and virtue signalling over showing concern for a fellow artist. His album has been #1 for 10 weeks and he has broken/set all kinds of records. His fans aren’t falling for the cancelling crap. And all the media attention just brought him more fans. 😂 🔥 🙌🏻
Grow up snowflakes
He's big enough now to be his own label! Grab your albums and start over Morgan! We are with you! This is just a witch hunt. What about rap?! Cop killer songs, many racial slurs and language!
Jeez he said it with an A not an R…everyone knows that’s the rule.
What about Rap Music go after them they curse and say the N word every other word
What about Mexicans
TUFF GET THIS MAN A TIME MACHINE HE MAD, HE LOSING MONEY
This video is one of the stupidest I've seen in a long time. I am Latina have always been Latina. Grew up in a small town in Michigan all whites and grew up listening to country music. Never was I ever isolated nor treated differently for my skin color. Country music was never the popular genre. That became apparent when I moved to the city Chicago to be exact and when I did actually begin to experience isolation from peers for being a "white girl" not because I looked white but because according to them I spoke white and listened to country music. I heard this so many times from Hispanics and blacks alike. Country has always been my favorite genre and my go to whenever I needed a pick me up. I constantly would go to country concerts before covid and never once was I uncomfortable or made to feel unwanted. Honestly I stopped watching award shows a long time ago because they had gotten too political for me but would still tune in to the ACM awards and other country shows because they always stuck to putting on a talented and entertaining show. They never talked politics or world issues. Music is an escape for many and now with all these artist trying to be appealing to the masses instead of focusing on their fans I can't even go to country music to get a little escape from reality.
Sing a song that speaks to people living country life. Don't care who you are. "Built on white supremacy" the hell? Good job hitting the trigger words to cast a wide net that country is racist.
People are so weak and offended by everything. It's just sad. Free speech is dead☹️
Woke media doing what the woke media does! Country music is not racist. What a joke! ABC needs to do better. Don't try and make us all hate each other. Racism is not an issue in the great USA! So Dumb! Morgan made a mistake, he apologized, time to move on. He didn't mean it as racist!
Andrea Williams is just another race baiting hustler. She is one trick pony. I'll buy his music because it's good.
Do whites dominate the wrap industry hello????
What about David Allen Coe that’s country… this industry needs to face this and own this artist
Do research on wrappers and what they say and do!!!!!