Rolling Stone reached out to dozens of state, regional and national Black-led or Black-founded charities. Only one reported receiving any money from Wallen, and it wasn’t nearly half a mil
to “help children, adolescents, and teenagers find families that can provide warm, loving homes that can rebuild their confidence, self-belief, and to feel forever loved, with a forever family.”
Two weeks ago, Wallen performed at a benefit concert with Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, and Breland. As a press release disseminated by his publicist noted the next day, the event, billed as Morgan Wallen & Friends,Rolling Stone , the BMAC also chastised Wallen for his response to Strahan’s question on if he believed there was a “race problem in country music, overall.”“We are confused as to how Morgan has not given any thought as to whether there is a race problem in country music,” BMAC organizers say, “given the amount of time and energy we have specifically spent with him discussing this very issue.
Wallen’s reckoning in the music industry appeared to be short-lived, with his label seemingly ready to return the singer to terrestrial radio, which remains the biggest barometer of mainstream success in the genre. Last month, Big Loud delivered “Sand in My Boots,” the third single fromand Wallen’s first in more than a year, to radio, ostensibly kick-starting Wallen’s full-throated comeback. — one of the biggest movers week over week — and is expected to swiftly rise.
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