Big Loud Records has announced that it will “suspend” country recording contract Morgan Wallen after the singer shouted a racial slur over the weekend.
“Following recent events, Big Loud Records has taken the termination of Morgan Wallen’s recording contract indefinitely,” the label announced Wednesday.
According to the statement, Republic Records, Big Loud’s wife on Wallen’s most recent release, “Dangerous,” “fully supports Big Loud’s resolve and that such a habit will not be tolerated. “
A video shows Morgan, 27, dropping into a space and telling a friend to “take care of this. . . (insult)”, referring to some other user of the group.
“I’m embarrassed and sorry,” Wallen said after the video was released Tuesday through TMZ. “I used an unacceptable racial slur and apart from the point I wish I could repeat. There are never any excuses to use this type of language. I’d like to sincerely apologize for using that word. I promise I’ll do better. “
Wallen had addressed the incident Wednesday morning on any of his social media channels.
Outside Wallen’s circle, the industry’s reaction was swift. A spokesman for iHeartMedia, the largest radio owner in the United States, with more than 800 stations, said they had disposed of Wallen’s music from the rotation.
The Country Music Association and the CMT cable network have announced that they will remove Wallen from all its platforms. The Academy of Country Music removed Wallen from his eligibility for the 56th annual ACM Awards, scheduled for April.
“We tolerate or tolerate words and movements that directly oppose our core values of diversity, equity and inclusion,” CMT tweeted.
Wallen is also remarkably absent from Spotify’s first country playlist, “Hot Country”, as well as Apple Music’s “Today’s Country”; lately has five of the 10 most sensible songs on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
Last year, Wallen became the newest country music star, crowned the Billboard album charts two hundred for more than three weeks and was named New Artist of the Year at the CMA Awards.
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The year marked by other incidents. Wallen arrested the boy Rock honky-tonk in downtown Nashville for public poisoning and disorderly outdoor behavior, and expelled the gambling in “SNL” after partying without a mask with strangers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (The exhibition invited him to return 2 months later. )
Mickey Guyton, one of the country artists who reacted to the news. The singer, who recently became the first black female soloist to earn a Grammy nomination in a country category, tweeted, “Hate is deep. “
A primary reaction came here from singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, whose song “Cover Me Up” recorded through Wallen and is included on their album crowned the charts.
“Wallen’s habit is disgusting and horrible,” Isbell tweeted. “I think it’s an opportunity for the country music industry to give this position to whoever deserves it, and there are a lot of black artists who deserve it. “
While other singers have warned that Wallen’s movements do not reflect Nashville and country music as a whole, Maren Morris replied: “He is a representative of our city because it is not his first ‘fight’, and he has just demolished a mass broadcast record for the last time. It doesn’t matter what month. We all know it wasn’t the first time I’ve used that word. We keep them rich and protected at all prices without recourse.