Kane Brown is opening up about the racism he encountered while rising through the ranks of Nashville.

During an appearance on Jake Paul's Impaulsive podcast, Kane Brown didn’t hold back when asked if he’d experienced racism in country music.

“Oh, yeah,” he responded.

Brown recalled an early encounter where a songwriter refused to collaborate with him because he was Black. “I’m not going to name names because I don’t want to throw him under the bus, but one writer told me he wouldn’t write with me,” Brown explained. “I confronted him later at a bar, and he apologized.”

Unfortunately, that wasn’t an isolated incident. Brown mentioned another major songwriter with around 30 No. 1 hits who did the same. But when Brown’s success grew, that same writer came back looking to work together.

“He apologized whenever we blew up and was trying to write with me. I said no,” Brown said.

These experiences happened during Brown’s early social media days, when he was gaining attention through Facebook and online platforms. “Nobody believed in it back then,” he said.

Despite those challenges, Brown has since proven his place in country music. Every album he’s released since 2016 has charted in the Top 5 in the U.S.