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Posted: 2022-02-05T20:31:17Z | Updated: 2022-02-06T16:14:07Z

India.Arie drove home why she decided to pull her content from Spotify , sharing a disturbing video compilation on Friday showing Joe Rogan, who hosts a controversial podcast on the streaming platform, repeatedly using the N-word on his show over the years.

The Grammy winner filmed herself in a since-expired Instagram story discussing her decision to end her association with Spotify, sharing a clip of Rogan saying the N-word on numerous occasions on his show, The Joe Rogan Experience, which launched in 2009.

Rogan responded on Saturday with his own video on Instagram apologizing for repeatedly using the racist slur on his podcast after the video compilation made its rounds on the internet.

He referred to the viral clip as the most regretful and shameful that Ive ever had to talk about publicly.

Its a video thats made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and its all smooshed together, and it looks fucking horrible, even to me, he says in the video.

India.Arie had initially announced on Tuesday that she would be pulling her music and podcast from the company after Neil Young, and then others, denounced Rogan for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic on the platform.

India.Arie noted at the time that Rogan was also problematic for reasons other than his shows coronavirus-related content, pointing to his language around race .

In her Friday Instagram story, India.Arie noted that she empathizes with the people who are leaving for the COVID disinformation reasons and that she also thinks that Rogan has the right to say what he wants to say.

But the singer pointed out that she, too, has the right to express her beliefs and doesnt want her music streamed on a platform that has signed an exclusive licensing deal with someone who regularly spouts racist language.

Spotify is built on the back of the music streaming, so they take this money thats built from streaming and they pay this guy $100 million but they pay us 0.003% of a penny? she says in the clip.

Spotify announced in May 2020 that it had signed a multiyear exclusive licensing deal to stream The Joe Rogan Experience on its platform. The company did not disclose any monetary figures at the time, but The Wall Street Journal had reported that the deal was worth more than $100 million , citing an unnamed source.

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