Megan Thee Stallion and the Limits of the Music Industry's Compassion

📆 2020-07-30 00:30:00
📰 Jezebel

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In February of this year, 20-year-old rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed in Los Angeles. A then-rising star on the precipice of global fame, he was a crucial figure in New York’s growing drill movement whose song “Dior” was adopted as a protest anthem at Black Lives Matter marches across New York City after his death. Once again, the industry had lost a promising young artist just as they were beginning to share their talent with the world. In the past few years alone, Nipsey Hussle died at age 33, Marlo at age 30, and Jimmy Wopo at age 21—all to shootings—and artists like Mac Miller, Lil Peep, and Chynna to drug overdoses, each death a tragic loss for music and the communities in which they thrived.

Jokey responses to the shooting seem born from an idea that Megan is undeserving of help, her playful music persona clouding her humanity.But the response to Megan Thee Stallion’s pain also highlights who is afforded compassion in a music industry that recognizes the fragility of its young artists but seems to draw a line when it comes to ensuring their protection.

“People look at an incident like this and balk at the idea that she would need or deserve the kind of concern that would be readily offered up for anyone else in her situation,” Tayo Bero. Yet Megan has also been transparent with her fans about what’s happening in her life behind the scenes; her mother Holly Thomas, who managed Megan and whose own rap career inspired her own, died

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