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I had heard of him before the N-word explosion. He's definitely easy on the eyes. I station surf a lot and he gets a lot of play. His fans embraced him after the N-word usage. Some stations stopped playing his music for a bit and he had appearances revoked. But his music spiked tremendously on platforms.

Overall, he did come across as a decent guy and "seemed" remorseful. But I was giving him the side-eye for the "I'm actually mad that people see me as THAT guy." Bro, you used a racial slur. Take the lumps that go along with that. Nobody cares that you are mad.

“There’s no excuse. I’ve never made an excuse. I never will make an excuse,” Wallen told Billboard of using the slur. “I’ve talked to a lot of people, heard stories [about] things that I would have never thought about because I wasn’t the one going through it. And I think, for me, in my heart I was never that guy that people were portraying me to be, so there was a little bit of like, ‘Damn, I’m kind of actually mad about this a little bit because I know I shouldn’t have said this, but I’m really not that guy.’ I put myself in just such a ***** spot, you know? Like, ‘You really messed up here, guy.’ If I was that guy, then I wouldn’t have cared. I wouldn’t have apologized. I wouldn’t have done any of that if I really was that guy that people were saying about me.”

He’s referencing his subsequent meetings with with several Black leaders, including 300 Elektra Entertainment chairman/CEO Kevin Liles, Universal Music Group executive vp/chief people and inclusion officer Eric Hutcherson and gospel artist Bebe Winans, as well as with the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) and other groups in an effort to educate himself. He said his process “to learn and try to be better” is ongoing.