“I hope there’s going to be a group on the road later that take what we’ve done and let it flip, and make it their own turn,” Bruno explained of his and Anderson’s new group, Silk Sonic. , “because if that is not the case, what is the point of us doing it?”
Bruno admitted that he questioned himself when the accusations first arose in 2018. “When I appeared on the Internet at the time, I looked in the mirror like I could not see,” he said. “Do I have this pass that I do not know? Where can I get the pass? Because I can use it for myself and my friends.”
Charlamagne asked if the accusations of cultural appropriation had ever upset him, to which he replied: “It comes with the performances. And there is real merit in what people say about black entertainers not getting their flowers, and I I mean, I’m with it. ‘
“I understand,” he added, “but it’s just Twitter.”