This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for Black America and the streaming entertainment industry. It is time for all Black artists to join India.Arie and send a message to Spotify and drop it like it’s hot. The reason for this is Joe Rogan.

Rogan, who entered into an exclusive $100 million deal with Spotify to stream his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, first came under fire for his anti-vaxxer messaging and COVID misinformation on his show. As a result, artists such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and others have pulled their music from Spotify and boycotted the music streaming service. But India.Arie went a step further and dropped her music from Spotify not only because of Rogan’s anti-vax talk but because of his enthusiastic use of the N-word.

Rogan not only used the N-word countless times but referred to a movie theater filled with Black people as Planet of the Apes—a comment which Trevor Noah condemned—and said Black people have “a different brain.” And he hosted a guest who claimed Black people have a gene giving them “a proclivity to violence” that white and Asian people do not have.

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