Spotify delete 113 Joe Rogan podcasts after clip resurfaces of him saying 'n-word'

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Spotify has taken down 113 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience after an old clip of him using the 'n-word' resurfaced. Rogan, 54, has an exclusive lucrative $100 million deal with the streaming giant and has offered his “sincere and humble apologies” about the footage emerged.The comedian who is known for rejecting 'political correctness' and 'cancel culture', previously faced backlash for sharing coronavirus misinformation on his podcast, seeing many campaign for his Spotify deal to be cancelled.Legendary musicians Joni Mitchell and Neil Young have taken their music off the platform in protest as Spotify continues to host the controversial podcast.The musician India Arie also announced she would leave the streaming service in protest, saying she objected to Rogan’s “language around race”.She shared an edited compilation of clips of Rogan using the N-word more than 20 times on her Instagram account.

Last night, JRE Missing - a website which automatically tracks deleted episodes of Rogan's podcasts - announced that Spotify had removed 113 episodes.

Rogan was forced to address the compilation of resurfaced clips from his podcast, which was hosted on YouTube at the time and not Spotify, where he used the N-word more than 20 times.Rogan addressed his use of the 'n-word' during a video he posted on his own Instagram account, saying: “I’m making this video to talk about the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.“There’s a video that’s out, that’s a compilation of me saying the N-word.

It’s a video that’s made of clips taken out of context of me of … 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it’s all smushed together, and it looks f**kin’ horrible, even to me.“Now I know that to most