Morgan Wallen, caught using N-word, says he hasn't 'thought about' racism in country music

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Morgan Wallen said Friday in his first interview since he was caught on video shouting the N-word that he hasn't "really sat and thought about" whether country music has a race problem.

Radio stations dropped him and his label suspended his contract after TMZ in February published a video of him shouting to a friend: "Hey, take care of this "p---- ass motherf-----. ... Take care of this p---- ass n-----" while returning to his Tennessee home after partying.

Following coverage of the incident, Wallen almost immediately saw a 1,220 percent increase in digital album sales and a 327 percent increase in song sales.

"Before this incident my album was already doing well," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" co-host Michael Strahan. "It was already being well received by critics and by fans. Me and my team noticed that whenever this whole incident happened that there was spike in my sales."

But Wallen said he didn't consider what the correlation might mean about country music fans.

"Do you believe there is a race problem in country music overall?" Strahan asked him.

"I mean it would seem that way," he replied. "Yeah. I mean, I haven’t really sat and thought about that."

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