Morgan Wallen has reportedly paid less than a third of the $500,000 he promised to black nonprofits after he was caught on video hurling the n-word in February, despite skyrocketing sales netting him $2million in the days after the controversy.
The country singer pledged half-a-million dollars to various groups in an interview in July, but calls to 57 state, regional and national black charities reveal a single $165,00 donation to the Black Music Action Coalition, Rolling Stone reports.
In February, the 28-year-old's neighbor filmed the musician walking into his house after a night out with friends in Nashville. 'Take care of this 'p****-a** mother******, he says. 'Take care of this p****-a** n*****.'
The race of the person he was talking about is not clear.
The Black Music Action Coalition, founded last year amid protests following the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, told Rolling Stone that they met with the singer and his management separately multiple times in February in March.
Morgan Wallen, 28, pledged half-a-million dollars to various groups in July, but he appears to have donated just $165,000 to one organization
The singer went on an apology tour after the incident, posting a five-minute video on Instagram, above, and appearing on Good Morning America, where he pledged the $500K
They say the singer gave them $165K in April, but they called him to task for exaggerating his generosity and for not doing enough to atone for the slur.
'While we are appreciative of the money, which has been used to make grants directly to Black musicians through our Covid Emergency Relief Fund, we remain disappointed that Morgan has not used his platform to support any anti-racism endeavors,' the organization said.
They also called his $500,000 figure 'exceptionally misleading.'
He may have donated more money to different organizations anonymously, though that wouldn't square with his open support of other charities this year.
In June, he gave a surprise performance for the Brett Boyer Foundation to raise money for children with congenital heart disease and Down syndrome.
Wallen gave $165K to the Black Music Action Coalition in April. The group is open to professionals in the music industry and was founded amid Black Lives Matter protests last year
The next month, he founded the More Than My Hometown Foundation to 'help children, adolescents, and teenagers find families that can provide warm, loving homes that can rebuild their confidence, self-belief, and to feel forever loved, with a forever family.'
The BMAC, where Wallen donated the $165K, is a group of artists, managers, producers, attorneys and other music industry professionals looking 'to address racism within the music industry and society at large,' according to their website.
The other 56 organizations contacted by Rolling Stone said they didn't receive money from the country singer - and the Nashville chapter of the NAACP previously said they haven't heard from the singer about a meeting, according to Page Six.
Wallen's second album, Dangerous: The Double Album, debuted to huge commercial success just a month before the controversy on January 8 via Big Loud and Republic Records.
It spent its first 10 weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, with some of those weeks overlapping with the controversy.
Wallen's second album, released in January, spent its first 10 weeks atop the Billboard 200. He made an estimated $2 million in the nine days after the n-word video surfaced
His success came after much of the industry did its best to chastise him. His songs were removed from streaming playlists and radio and he was dropped by his
