Morgan Wallen's Billboard Music Awards 2022 showcase slammed as 'racist'

Twitter is not joyful with place singer Morgan Wallen’s efficiency at the 2022 Billboard Songs Awards.

The previously “canceled” 29-calendar year-aged performed not one, but two tunes Sunday night time a yr just after a February 2021 video clip of him surfaced drunkenly calling his buddy the N-phrase and other expletives went viral.

“F— Morgan Wallen and this Jim Crow new music,” a person user wrote. “With what just occurred in Buffalo, we coulda slice him from the lineup. Un-canceled my ass. Which is the issue now, we generally supplying out 2nd likelihood for MFs to enjoy in our faces.”

Whalen, who carried out “Don’t Believe Jesus” just before transitioning into a overall performance of “Wasted on You,” did not address the controversy that experienced him previously ban from the ceremony.

“Is @billboard really supporting and promoting this racist prick,” one more reported.

“Diddy presents an award for activism from racism although concurrently supplying platform to Morgan Wallen,” yet another observed.

Morgan Wallen 2022 Billboard Music Awards
Morgan Wallen is at this time on tour pursuing the February 2021 viral video clip of him utilizing the N-phrase though conversing to a close friend.
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BBMA host and executive producer Sean “Diddy” Combs previously instructed Billboard that he would use the show to distribute “love and forgiveness” around Wallen and rapper Travis Scott.

“So a person of the things I’m performing specifically is uncanceling the canceled. That is breaking information mainly because persons haven’t been about uncanceling. But canceling is a pattern that requires to stop,” the 52-calendar year-outdated Revolt Media & Television Chairman said of the well-known Gen Z development.

“Travis went as a result of a tragedy Morgan [used the N-word] whilst conversing to his boy,” the self-proclaimed “Primetime Puff” reminded visitors. “People make errors. Now we’re relocating on with really like and regard for every person that was damage or impacted. It’s time to forgive.”

Morgan Wallen's Billboard Music Awards 2022 showcase slammed as 'racist'

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