In response to all this, the BMAC now says that Wallen’s half-million dollar donation pledge “seems exceptionally misleading,” which is the understatement of the year.Īctually, the BMAC is taking the high road here, looking less for dollars donated and more for specific anti-racism measures on the country crooner’s part. None of them reported receiving any money from Wallen.”
“Rolling Stone reached out to 56 other state, regional and national Black-led or Black-founded charities. In fact, the outlet went way further than that, dropping this bombshell in their Monday afternoon report on Wallen’s lost donation dollars:
But it appears that didn’t happen either! Which might be fine, perhaps, if Wallen had spread the other $300,000+ out among other charities, or something. We got to a number somewhere around $500,000, and we decided to donate that money to some organizations, BMAC being the first one.”Įxcept now it’s been nearly three months, and well… the BMAC doesn’t have that money.Īccording to Rolling Stone, the BMAC received $165,000 from Wallen back in April - several months before he announced his donation initiative on GMA with Strahan - but they have not received anything since. So we tried to calculate … how much it had spiked from this incident. Me and my team noticed that whenever this whole incident happened, that there was a spike in my sales. “Before this incident, my album was already doing well it was already being well-received by critics and by fans. So during the daytime TV interview, the Up Down singer said this about donating half a million dollars to “some organizations” like the Black Music Action Coalition (below): Related: Justin Bieber Recalls His Own N-Word Scandal In Light Of Morgan Wallen’s Ugly SituationĪs Perezcious readers will recall, Wallen previously noted how his record sales actually spiked after the n-word controversy.
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