Living Colour is claiming the band has been shunned by black entertainment outlets for playing "white people" music. Living Colour issued a statement backing up Lenny Kravitz's comments about black rock musicians being ignored at awards shows. In the interview, Kravitz stated, "To this day, I have not been invited to a BET thing or a Source Awards thing. And it’s like, here is a Black artist who has reintroduced many Black art forms, who has broken down barriers—just like those that came before me broke down. That is positive. And they don’t have anything to say about it?" Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover referenced Kravitz's comments in a social media post and wrote, “"Lenny was right. None of us has been awarded let alone acknowledged for our achievements. Living Colour in the past has worked with such historical luminaries as Little Richard and Mick Jagger. We’ve worked with a hip-hop royalty from Queen Latifah, Doug E Fresh, Chuck D & Flava Flav to Run DMC. And yet there’s barely a mention of rocks contribution to what is modern black music, let alone in rock and roll circles.” Glover went on to say, “It’s been our experience that most people of color have no idea how deep and far reaching the influence of Black people in the modern-day rock ‘n’ roll there are, let alone it’s impact on R&B and hip hop. What we hear is “that’s white people stuff” when in fact, it is not! It’s hard enough to live in places where you expect white supremacy, but not from your own people."
That's me on the left and Corey and Vernon on the far right