In an open letter by Neil Young, the rock star announced he wanted to remove his music from Spotify because Rogan continued to spread vaccine misinformation on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is Spotify’s most popular podcast of 2021. “Neil Young opened a door that I MUST walkthrough,” Arie wrote on Monday. The R&B singer said in an Instagram post that Rogan’s “language around race” was “problematic,” referring to an interview on Rogan’s podcast where he made derogatory comments about African nations and said it was “weird” to use the term “Black” as an identifier.ĭuring the discussion of the “spectrum of shades of people,” with guest Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and climate change sceptic, Rogan said “Unless you’re talking to someone who is like 100% African, from the darkest place, where they’re not wearing any clothes all day, and they’ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, you know, even the term ‘Black’ is weird,” Rogan said on the podcast.

Arie’s departure from the streaming service is due to Spotify’s podcast host Joe Rogan’s comment on race.

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