This makes a lot of sense if you consider that his time in music was politically specious. It had no real political content, it was just aesthetic choices. Wear your hair like this, wear makeup, act a certain way, don't work certain jobs. It wasn't actually disruptive in any significant way which is why it was allowed to continue until it was normalized. It made a lot of money for some very large media companies, who actually do have political weight.

When it comes time for some actual political content, something that actually is disruptive, then he doesn't get it. He comes off as more conservative than he would seem from his rebellious music.

All that testifying to congress and telling your boomer military dad to shove it wasn't actually doing anything. It was just a rebranding of the same cultural and political power center. That's why hard right people these days listen to that kind of stuff instead of Perry Como. It's ultimately about white straight men being able to push social boundaries with no consequence. The moment an actual marginalized group tries to do it, we need to hold on and temper our actions. That is the time for concern.

The only reason rap didn't get outright banned was because they fucked up and caught a bunch of white male artists in the dragnet. If the music police were a little more aware they could have gotten rid of rap (which is what they really wanted) without hurting rock and roll. Then these artists wouldn't have really said shit or they would have just did some performative protest and went back to tour afterwards.

Luckily capitalism did all the heavy lifting anyways, without moral regulators. Rock and rap lost its edge. Both became heavily commercial and mass marketed. Now it's noise in the background of pop.