India.Arie is clarifying her stance. After joining a series of artists taking their music off Spotify due to hosting Joe Rogan‘s podcast and COVID-19 misinformation being spread in conversations on the show, the 46-year-old musician went on her Instagram Story to discuss her own personal reasoning. Click inside to read more… In her Story, she shared clips of the podcast host using the N-word in several episodes, as well a time he referred to a movie theater in a Black neighborhood as “Planet of the Apes.” “[Joe Rogan] shouldn’t even be uttering the [n-]word.
Don’t even say it, under any context. That’s where I stand,” she said. “I have always stood there…we have this person who is offensive to a lot of people and is paid $100 million.
The backbone of Spotify is the music. You pay the musicians .003-.005 percent of a penny and take this money generated over here and use it to invest in this guy?
Do you what you want, but take me off. Or pay me too. I mean us. Pay artists like me too. Pay podcasters of color too.” Find out what other artists have had to say about Spotify.
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