Joe Rogan has issued an apology for racist language he’s used in episodes of his popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan’s apology comes after singer India.Arie took to Instagram to announce she was pulling all her music from Spotify; unlike Neil Young and other artists who have removed their music from the streaming service, however, Arie’s main gripe wasn’t the COVID-19 vaccine disinformation on Rogan’s podcast, but his use of racist language. READ MORE: India Arie Explains Decision To Pull Music From Spotify Amid Joe Rogan Controversy To prove her point, she shared a compilation on her Instagram Highlights, taken from past episodes of Rogan’s podcast, in which he’s seen using the N-word 22 times.
She then called out Spotify for paying musicians “a fraction of a penny” for their music while paying Rogan $100 million for his podcast. “You take this money that you generate and you use it to invest in this guy?” she said of Spotify. “In no uncertain terms where I stand on this is he shouldn’t even be uttering the word,” she added. “Don’t even say it — under any context.
Don’t say it. That’s where I stand. I have always stood there.” According to NME, Spotify has quietly removed 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” following Arie posting the compiliation.
Rogan responded in a video he posted on Instagram, apologizing for having used the racial slur. “There’s been a lot of s**t from the old episodes of the podcast that I wish I hadn’t said, or had said differently.
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