“However, I wanna be clear in no uncertain terms where I stand on this is that he shouldn’t even be uttering the word. “So we know how social media can be: Things can be doctored, people are taken out of context, it’s happened to me many times,” Arie said.

After showing it to her followers, Arie made her stance clear. The video shared by Arie is a quick compilation that contains no fewer than 23 instances of Rogan using the N-word on his show. I don’t wanna generate money that pays this. 003 percent of a penny? Just take me off.

“So they take this money that’s built from streaming, and they pay this guy $100 million, but they pay us. “Spotify is built on the back of the music streaming,” Arie said. The video was posted Friday on social media by Grammy Award-winning R&B singer India Arie, who explained why she added her name to a growing list of music artists who have asked Spotify to remove their music from the platform, which also has exclusive rights to “The Joe Rogan Experience.”Īrie said she empathizes with artists who want their music pulled from Spotify because of Rogan’s podcast spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, but she also felt compelled to call attention to Rogan freely using the N-word in years’ past. Rogan, the popular longtime UFC commentator and podcast host, issued an apology early Saturday morning after a video surfaced of him using the N-word repeatedly through the years while on the air. Already embroiled in one controversy, Joe Rogan regrets that he’s at the center of another.

Spotify joe rogan n word