When Kanye proclaimed that veteran host Sway didn’t have the answers, I didn’t pay too much attention because…Kanye. But a recent interview with the artist Nick Grant on MTV’s revamped TRL seemed to suggest that Kanye might have been on to something.
Grant sat down with Sway to discuss his new song and video “Black Woman.”
An ode to the women who raised him, you would think that a Black man would find it impossible to find a flaw in such a concept. Yet, that’s exactly what Sway did.
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Sway: “You got a track and video called ‘Black Woman.’ Why did you put this out? Because I don’t know man, you alienate a lot of women who aren’t Black…talk about that.
Nick Grant: “To touch on what you just said, love to all women but this is just an ode to the women that were in my life, the village of women that raised me and fed me, clothed me, gave me encouraging words to get me through as a kid. Like for me as a yogi’, it was really rough. All I had was women, outside of my grandfather—who I would go to his house everyday and listen to those Jazz records and get that manly advice. But for the most part, Monday thru Friday was all women. So I felt like to not make this kind of record for them—I feel like it took too long to make this record. I just felt like they deserved it. They don’t get enough respect and enough attention.”
Sway: Yeah but to the Asian women and the Latina women and the Caucasian women, the Swedish women, German, French women, Nick Grant love you too. Look in the camera and tell them Nick.
Nick Grant: We love all the women. Love to all the women.
Sway: Would you date outside of just Black women?
Nick Grant: Love is love. I love who I love but I relate to what kind of put me in position.
Sway just couldn’t let it go! Couldn’t understand the need to uplift and center Black women in a country where we’ve never received the respect and acknowledgment we deserved. The fact that a Black man would take this opportunity to attempt to cape for women who don’t need the additional adoration is not only indicative of Sway’s mindset, it speaks to the need for the video in the first place. Malcolm X’s words about the Black woman being the most disrespected person in America still ring true. And the fact that Sway would seek to “All women matter” the moment, is tragically disappointing.
As you might assume, it wasn’t long before Twitter shared their thoughts on the interview.
