If Post Malone doesn't recognize this he's only been listening with half an ear."
Michael Harriot at The Root wrote, "If white privilege somehow became a person, learned how to make shitty music and covered its weak, undefined, inbred jawline with an unkempt beard, I'd name it Post Malone." UPROXX's hip-hop editor, Aaron Williams, said, "Historically and currently, rap has always talked about "real sh*t," from interpersonal issues to social justice. Taken together, Malone has come in for some heavy-duty flack. "Like, maybe my music's not the best, but I know I'm not a bad person, so you're just being a hater." He doubled down on his comments and said he was a victim of reverse-racism because of the exchange. "I wish I'd said, 'What are you doing for Black Lives Matter?' Some sassy shit to shut him up," he told RS. I don't know." In the RS interview, Malone had a new answer. Short version: In a 2015 radio interview, Charlamagne asked Malone about supporting Black Lives Matter, and Malone gave an awkward answer about the best way to help the movement was for him to "keep making music.
Frank Ocean's 2016 hit album Blonde featured "Nikes," a heartbreaking song referencing the death of Trayvon Martin, while Blood Orange's 2016 album Freetown Sound was a complex look at the queer black experience in gentrified Brooklyn.īut worse for Malone, his views put his can't-let-it-go comments about Charlamagne tha God in a recent Rolling Stone profile in a stark light. There's Tyler the Creator's coming-out album, Flower Boy, and Future's magnum opus, Codeine Crazy. That's an objectively strange thing to say, considering the crazy amount of emotionally-rap out there. Post Malone in his music video for "Congratulations".