Artists do interviews and the “Journalists” are either fishing for drama, beef, or trying to get them to say something that can get them “cancelled”.
I wouldn’t want to do interviews either. The Breakfast Club, whom I used to really fukk with, spends 30 mins fishing for some sort of scandalous soundbite and 10 mins on the artists projects.
With podcasts and social media, the artists can dole out information on they’re own now. Nas got a whole podcast he put last year where he talks to pioneers of hip hop and reveals more information about HIMSELF through those conversations than he has with any interviewer the last decade