Justin Bieber has addressed the backlash he recently received over the inclusion of samples of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his new album ‘Justice’.The record includes the track ‘MLK Interlude’, which features audio of the civil rights leader delivering the sermon ‘But If Not’ at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in April 1967.
Dr. King’s voice is also sampled on the opening track ‘2 Much’, and he is posthumously credited as a songwriter on the two tracks.Bieber initially faced a wave of criticism for the Dr.
King samples, with Rolling Stone calling them “a jarring musical misstep” and Insider deriding the singer’s use of Dr. King’s speeches as “performative”.However, Bieber received public support from Dr.
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