Miley Cyrus Acknowledges Her 'Privilege,' Apologizes For Past Comments About Hip-Hop

Two years prior, in a cover story for Billboard, Miley Cyrus shouted out her love for Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" by contrasting it with what she perceived because the themes of modern hip-hop. "I also love that new Kendrick song: 'Show me somethin' organic like ass with some stretch marks,'" she said. "I love that because it's not 'Come sit on my dick, suck on my cock.' I can't listen to that anymore. That's what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little bit. It was also much 'Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my cock' — I am so not that."


At the time, these comments were interpreted as piece of Miley's task to distance herself from her past music fashion, which drew heavily from hip-hop and was forged by her working alongside rap heavyweights like Mike Will Made-It and Future, especially on her 2013 album Bangerz — a fact that made her comments not particularly well received. However as she recently pointed out, she's grown since then.


Her latest EP, She Is Coming, features Swae Lee and Ghostface Killah. And this week, she took the time to apologize for her past comments through the a YouTube comment on a fan's video titled "Miley Cyrus Is My Problematic Fav...Sorry."


"I desire to begin with saying I am sorry. I own the fact that saying ... 'This pushed me out of the hip hop scene a little bit was insensitive as it is a privilege be able to dip in and out of 'the scene,'" Miley wrote in a reply that the uploader has since pinned to the best of the comments. "There are decades of inequality that I am aware of, although yet still have a lot learn about."


She continued on, apologizing again, calling for unity, and pledging herself to be a "voice for healing, change, and standing up for what's right." "I can not change what I mentioned at that time, although I can mention I am deeply sorry for the disconnect my words caused," she wrote. "Simply said; I fucked up and I sincerely apologize."


Miley's words come at a time that's seen her engage with fans and critics more directly by means of the social media. Soon after she dropped She Is Coming late last month, she reportedly called out a critic for a unfavorable review, later deleting the tweets. She's also been heavily promoting her recent starring role in the new Black Mirror episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley and also teasing a forthcoming collaboration between Offered Parenthood, Marc Jacobs, and her Happy Hippie Foundation set to benefit reproductive rights.


Read Miley's entire apology under the YouTube video here.