Kane Brown is opening up about his response to Morgan Wallen’s early 2021 racist slur scandal.
The incident — in which doorcam footage shows a visibly intoxicated Morgan jokingly hurling the N-word as he bid goodnight to a car full of friends — led to the country superstar getting quickly benched by the music industry.
His songs were pulled from radio playlists and his record contract was put on hiatus. Country stars across the industry jumped in, some condemning his actions and others calling for his eventual redemption. Kane — who has worked with Morgan as a songwriter in the past — says he believes Morgan’s words were wrong, but he also has a personal relationship with the singer that informed his perspective.
“I texted him that day,” Kane explains in a new profile in the New York Times. “I told him he shouldn’t have said it, but also knowing Morgan, I knew that he didn’t mean it in the way that world thought he meant it.”
The “Grand” star stresses that had he not felt confident that he knew Morgan’s intentions, his reaction would have been very different. “I think if it was in a different context, I probably would have been fighting,” he adds.
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