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Joe Rogan Addresses Racist Video Compilation Circulated by India.Arie: ‘I Clearly Have Fucked Up’
Earlier this week, India.Arie announced she was pulling her music from Spotify because she found the way Joe Rogan talked about race problematic. To prove her point, the singer shared a video compilation that shows the controversial podcaster use the N-word 24 times in 23 different clips. Rogan addressed the video in an apology uploaded to Instagram, calling it “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.” After explaining that the compilation was sourced from “out of context” snippets from “12 years of conversations” on his show, he admitted “it looks fucking horrible. Even to me.” “I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, nevermind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that now. I haven’t said...
Graham Nash and India.Arie Pull Music From Spotify
Graham Nash and India Arie are the latest artists to pull their music from Spotify due to Joe Rogan. However, their reasoning for doing so is very different. Nash said in a statement that he “completely agrees” with his Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young bandmate Neil Young after “having heard the COVID disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify. I am requesting that my solo recordings be removed from the service.” Young was the first of various artists to remove their music from the streaming giant, because of Rogan’s alleged spreading of COVID misinformation, but also in protest against the unfair ways Spotify pays musicians. Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren followed Young not longer after. Arie shared a statement on Instagram that she is removing her work off Spotify because Young “opened ...
