White artists have been riding off of black culture for decades. This is nothing new.
And this might seem out of context, but I feel like in response to alot of the current events in the past few years regarding police brutality, a Black president, rise of the BLM movement, we're sort of entering a new wave of Black social activism and stream of consciousness. And what was once given a pass (JT in this case), is no longer accepted. To put it lightly, Black people are tired of having our culture and lives taken like property, and we're not sitting quietly about it and white people are becoming uncomfortable with that.
I'm starting to equate "social justice warrior" as yet another white supremacist epithet to discredit the effort of Blacks to protect what is rightfully there's.