Rappers Travis Scott and Gunna join pop singers including Halsey and
Ariana Grande in condemning
police brutality
Stars from across the pop
music spectrum, including Billie Eilish,
Jay-Z, Ariana Grande and more have used their sizeable platforms to support
protesters and condemn police brutality, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other black Americans.
Eilish, 18, wrote a lengthy post on
Instagram to her 63m followers, castigating those who use the phrase “all lives matter” in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. “No-one is saying your life doesn’t matter. No-one is saying your life is not hard … This is not about you,” she wrote. “Society gives you privilege just for being white … we have to address hundreds of years of oppression of black people.” After sharing Eilish’s post, pop
Singer Pink responded to critics of it as “the epitome of white privilege … you don’t even hear yourself and probably never will”.