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Charley Crockett has hit out at the “country music establishment” while praising Bad Bunny for his “ICE out” speech at the Grammy Awards and his history-making Super Bowl Halftime Show performance.
“When I was at the Grammys the other night I saw [Jelly Roll] get up and talk about Jesus, and then I saw Bad Bunny get up there and talk like Jesus,” Crockett wrote in a lengthy Instagram post. “The country music establishment should be taking notes on a Puerto Rican American who hasn’t forgotten his heritage and brought his culture’s traditional music back to the front, showing the world something new with it.”
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Elsewhere in the post, Crockett directed pointed criticism at President Trump, Elon Musk, and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
“They keep saying I’m a cosplay cowboy but they love a cosplay president,” he stated. “Some folks have been on here calling Muhammad Ali a draft dodger when yall got one in the White House… The President is a grifter who bankrupted 6 casinos. That’s pretty extraordinary considering it’s a rigged business in favor of the house. The only thing he’s good at is filing lawsuits and portraying a successful business man as a reality TV actor.”
Crockett continued, “Last time I checked Elon Musk was an immigrant from South Africa but there he is standing in the White House buying our elections. Let’s deport his ass and send Peter Thiel back with him since they both openly believe in a post democratic society where men of their class are above the law.”
The outspoken country artist then explained that he has a personal issue with Trump, a convicted felon, running the United States after Crockett himself lost “the right to vote or own a weapon for years over marijuana.”
He concluded the post by paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr.: “As a great man once said it’s welfare for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor. If you can sleep at night licking their boots that’s between you and yours, but that type of thinking isn’t freedom… Every single right we have as a people wasn’t handed to us. We had to fight and take it. Judge a man by how he treats the poor and those who he views as being able to do nothing for him.”
Read Crockett’s full note below.
Last August, Crockett clashed online with fellow country singer Gavin Adcock over the idea of “authenticity” in their genre. After Adcock called him a “cosplay cowboy,” Crockett responded by telling Rolling Stone, “I don’t think they stand for anything. They stand for Auto-Tune and songs written by a committee.”
“Outlaw was about standing up for your rights against a very rigid music business system,” he added. “In a game where you throw money at a young artist, and if it doesn’t work out, no problem, because there’s 1,000 standing behind you, well, a controversial figure is unlikely to ever rise.”
Crockett is set to head out on a North American tour (get tickets here) later this month. He is also gearing up to release a new album sometime this year.
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