The 1975’s Matty Healy has apologized for “patronizing, uninformed, and reductive” feedback he made about perceived drug use and misogyny in hip-hop in an interview with Larry Fitzmaurice for The FADER. (Fitzmaurice is a Pitchfork contributor and former Pitchfork editor.)
In the interview, Fitzmaurice brings up “Love It If We Made It” and asks Healy, “What’s your perspective on drugs in the music industry right now?” Healy’s reply, as printed by FADER, reads:
One of the issues is the youth of hip-hop. At the second, with SoundCloud rap, it’s grow to be a little bit of a drug-taking competitors, and that occurred in rock’n’roll. Those issues get weeded out the longer these issues exist. The purpose misogyny doesn’t occur in rock’n’roll anymore is as a result of it’s a vocabulary that existed for thus lengthy is that it received weeded out. It nonetheless exists in hip-hop as a result of [the genre] is so younger, but it surely’ll cease. That’s why you will have this second with younger black males—Kanye-aged males, as properly—speaking about their relationship with themselves, which is an enormous step ahead for hip-hop. Drake, for instance. But then they’ll be like, “But I still got bitches.” The scene’s relationship with girls hasn’t caught as much as its relationship with itself, however that’s one thing that can occur.
I don’t know what the “business” is however the business appears to be very hip-hop-led for the time being, selling the concept of being spaced-out as a result of it’s going by way of a psychedelic second. One of the the explanation why I used to be so frightened of being uncovered that I used to be utilizing heroin is due to how a lot of a cliche it will make me. You know me sufficient already to know that the concept of me doing one thing that’s an precise rock’n’roll cliche is one thing I’d wish to keep away from. We don’t have the cliches of Xanax but. It’s scary. The purpose that Peep resonated with me a lot is that he died whereas I used to be in rehab. He’s 10 years youthful than me.
Later within the interview, Healy mentioned he’s impressed by hip-hop and R&B artists SZA, Kendrick Lamar, and BROCKHAMPTON.
In his apology, posted on his Twitter right this moment (December 5), Healy wrote that he was partially misquoted. “What I mentioned isn’t appropriate. And it’s not all a misquote. Just for readability I mentioned that misogyny wasn’t ALLOWED in rock and roll now days in a method it’s in hip hop – not that it doesn’t exist, that’s perhaps a misquote as I’m conscious of the misogyny in rocknroll…I might by no means deny the RAMPANT misogyny that exists in rock’n’roll. It’s all over the place and has been a weirdly accepted a part of it since its inception.”
Healy later Tweeted, “Just to clarify I’m not apologising for saying ‘rock music is void of misogyny’. I didn’t say that. Any body who says that is not only thick as fuck they most probably don’t have physical eyes. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m apologising for the fact my words could INSINUATE that misogyny in culture and music is an exclusively hip hop (black) issue. I do not believe that. What I believe is that I’m not educated enough to speak on THAT properly and a big part of that is this white dick that I have”
Healy beforehand addressed the “Love It If We Made It” lyric “Rest in Peace, Lil Peep” in an interview with Zane Lowe in July when “Love It If We Made It” premiered on Beats 1. Lowe requested, “Are you basically making reference to the prescription medication issue, or are you being more specific?” Healy replied:
No, I’m not. At all. I’m saying “Rest in Peace, Lil Peep.” It’s very on-the-nose, no matter what you consider them as artists or individuals. With [XXXTentacion] and with Lil Peep, the factor that was occurring in that motion, no matter what you consider it musically, I felt prefer it was the closest factor that this technology, for the time being, has to a form of punk. It positively felt necessary, no matter it’s. And these two persons are lifeless now. Just like that. Just lifeless. And, I’m saying, “Rest in Peace, Lil Peep.” If you wanna go and discuss huge pharma and pharmaceutical firms and over-prescription of medication, yeah, in fact. Of course that’s positively part of it, however that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that at different factors within the track.
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