Jason Isbell Says He'll Donate 'Everything I've Made' Off Morgan Wallen's Latest Album to NAACP

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Isbell's decision comes a week after the NAACP offered to "have a conversation" with Wallen after the country singer was captured using the N-word

Jason Isbell is channeling his profit from Morgan Wallen's latest album toward something good.

After Wallen's January album Dangerous spent a fourth week atop the Billboard 200 chart — amid controversy following the country singer's use of a racial slur — Isbell decided to donate the money he's made off the album for Wallen's cover of his own "Cover Me Up" to the NAACP.

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"So... A portion of this money goes to me, since I wrote 'Cover Me Up,'" Isbell, 42, tweeted. "I've decided to donate everything I've made so far from this album to the Nashville chapter of the @NAACP."

"Thanks for helping out a good cause, folks," he continued.

Image zoom Jason Isbell, Morgan Wallen | Credit: Al Pereira/Getty; Jason Kempin/Getty

Isbell quote-tweeted a story link from the Associated Press, which reported that Wallen's streaming and sales numbers increased after he was captured on video using the N-word.

"His fans are likely streaming him more because they can't hear him on the radio anymore," Hannah Karp, Billboard's editorial director, told the AP. (Wallen's music was pulled from airwaves after the incident.) "Some fans may be streaming him more in addition to show their support for him, which is something that super fans and fan armies often do."

Isbell's decision to donate to the Nashville's chapter of the NAACP comes after the organization offered to inform and educate Wallen, 27, on the history and hate within the N-word.

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"Even when you look at the other words that were spoken, that one has a certain venom to it that the words just don't have," attorney and Nashville NAACP president Sheryl Guinn told WSMV-TV. "Because he was such a prominent celebrity and an artist here in Nashville, I mean he's living here, we would love for him to have that conversation with us."

"We invite him to come and have that conversation with us, the NAACP, as to why that word is so hurtful," Guinn continued.

After the video of his saying the racial slur surfaced, Wallen issued an apology.

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This was a beautifully written piece. Isbell is an absolute legend.

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I love to play guitar and write songs, but I've kind of given up on that after Nashville Sound and Southeastern. Cumberland Gap, If We Were Vampires.... What an absolutely superb talent Jason Isbell is.

tr851 on February 10th, 2021 at 23:32 UTC »

Jason Isbell has always been one of the good ones.