“What I really think is that he was being consciously racist, and it makes me wonder what he talks like behind closed doors.

“I don’t like even saying that because I’m a sensitive, old soul, and I want to believe the best in people, so when I first heard his apology, my instinct is to go, ‘He tried.’” she continued. He knew that was inappropriate, and I think the fact that he did it repeatedly, and was conscious, and knew, I think that is being racist,” Arie said. “For me, when I think about Joe Rogan, I think that he is being consciously racist. ”Īrie opened the conversation Monday with a larger discussion about the mistreatment and underpayment of artists enabled by the streaming economy, then spent a great deal of her conversation with Trevor Noah discussing the role of conscious and unconscious racism. My dream is that what I’m doing will work, and there will be systemic changes. It’s about my integrity, my dignity, and hoping to create more of that for other artists, too. At the end of the day, it’s about wanting to be treated well. “It was about exposing what it’s like to be an artist of color in the business. “For me, it wasn’t even about exposing Joe Rogan,” she said. “FOR ME IT’S ALSO HIS language around race.” Rogan has used the n-word several times on his show over the years.īut, as she previously told Rolling Stone, Rogan is not the only issue here.

“I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons OTHER than his Covid interviews,” she wrote on Instagram. 'Vilification Is Easy': Spotify Isn't the Culprit, Says Head of Indie Label Thirty TigersĪrie previously asked for her music to be pulled from the platform after artists like Neil Young did so in protest of The Joe Rogan Experience, on which the host perpetuated Covid-19 misinformation. India.Arie Wants to Yank Her Music Off Spotify - But Her Label Won't Let Her They've Been Silent on the Joe Rogan Debacle The World's Two Largest Music Companies are Spotify Shareholders. “But I did it in protest just because I felt like my dignity was being … I felt like I was being disrespected.” Because now my music, if things work out the way I want, my music won’t be heard on the biggest streaming platform,” she said. “I have to say that asking for my music to be pulled from Spotify in protest doesn’t actually serve me.

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