Twitter isn’t proud of nation singer Morgan Wallen’s efficiency on the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.
The beforehand “canceled” 29-year-old carried out not one, however two songs Sunday evening a 12 months after a February 2021 video of him surfaced drunkenly calling his pal the N-word and different expletives went viral.
“F–okay Morgan Wallen and this Jim Crow music,” one user wrote. “With what simply occurred in Buffalo, we coulda lower him from the lineup. Un-canceled my ass. That’s the issue now, we at all times giving out second possibilities for MFs to play in our faces.”
Whalen, who carried out “Don’t Suppose Jesus” earlier than transitioning right into a efficiency of “Wasted on You,” didn’t handle the controversy that had him beforehand banned from the ceremony.
“Is @billboard actually supporting and selling this racist prick,” one other stated.
“Diddy provides an award for activism towards racism whereas concurrently giving platform to Morgan Wallen,” one other famous.
BBMA host and government producer Sean “Diddy” Combs beforehand advised Billboard that he would use the present to unfold “love and forgiveness” round Wallen and rapper Travis Scott.
“So one of many issues I’m doing immediately is uncanceling the canceled. That’s breaking information as a result of individuals haven’t been about uncanceling. However canceling is a development that should cease,” the 52-year-old Revolt Media & TV Chairman stated of the favored Gen Z development.
“Travis went by a tragedy; Morgan [used the N-word] whereas speaking to his boy,” the self-proclaimed “Primetime Puff” reminded readers. “Individuals make errors. Now we’re transferring on with love and respect for everyone that was harm or affected. It’s time to forgive.”