During her recent interview with Sway in the Morning, K broke down in tears when a young white man called in to question why he can’t hear her music on non urban radio stations because he thinks her music is amazing.
That’s when the singer opened up and got pretty emotional while discussing racism and the industry politics that hold black artists back.
She says:
“I just wanna be me. I never thought that I would…you hear about it and you see it but my daddy is like a college, Black History professor. And you hear about it. I never thought that I would live in a time of tremendous racism. And I just don’t like what I see.
“Not just in music, like race is very difficult. And I don’t like how we do each other. I don’t like the barriers that are placed on us and if you care anything about music or care anything about the platform you’ve been given, you’re gonna feel a certain kind of way.”
She goes on to say that she gets emotional when people of different racial backgrounds question why they don’t hear her music on Top 40 radio.
K also says she feels black people are too hard on black artists and it’s hurtful to be called a flop on social media given the current climate of the music industry for black artists.
Check out the interview below.
She gets emotional around the 11:40 mark but the whole interview is worth a watch.
I almost feel for her and then I remember how she had no problems referring to other black women as monkeys and nappy headed. Don’t cry over racism when you have been racist yourself. I know people troll her but she can’t use those terms and expect black people to sympathize with her when she experiences racism. It doesn’t work that way.
True but that doesn’t make what she said about the industry any less true.
Agreed.
I came on here to type this.
You can tell in these last few press rounds that K is not in a good place mentally or emotionally. She needs to take some time off and work on herself. And this is why I tell people they need to think long and hard about being in the music industry. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Neither is Hollywood.
She’s not her usual fiesty self lately. I mean she was lite on Angela Yee because she could have dragged her way harder than she did. Is everything ok with her?
Aww. I know she’s frustrated.
She struggled the whole interview. She needs a good vacation.
She always has something to say about black people.
I don’t like that she blames the black community for her albums not selling the way she would like them to. White people, Latino people, Asian people and others must not be buying your music either… Plus last time I checked no one asked me my race when I purchased an album, but I digress.
Black people are the ones who actually support her though. So I don’t know why she’s even making this about black people letting her down. It’s white people who aren’t checking for her because they don’t know she exists. And yes the stan culture can be too much but that isn’t limited to black people.
Chile she didn’t tell not one lie about the business. Rihanna and Beyonce may be the last two big stars we will have. They are white washing everything.