Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said stopping Rogan’s show was not the answer, but Rogan chose to remove over 100 episodes of the show from the streaming service.
As ire grew at Rogan for helping to spread the disputed Covid-19 claims, clips of him using racial slurs re-surfaced. Meghan Markle, who has a Spotify-exclusive podcast, expressed concern to the company. Several artists, including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, removed their music from Spotify in protest. Peter McCullough on his show, who used the platform to spread misinformation and unsubstantiated claims about Covid-19 and vaccines. “I’m well aware of that now.” He added that he had not spoken the slur “in years.Rogan drew criticism early in the year for featuring Dr. Don’t say it, under any context.” In his video, Rogan said that he had come to agree with that view.
When posting the clip compilation, Arie said that Rogan “shouldn’t even be uttering the word. Rogan said the compilation was drawn from “12 years of conversations” on his show, and that it looked “horrible, even to me.” The clips, he said, had been taken out of context, which he said included discussions about how it had been used by comedians like Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx, who were Black, and Lenny Bruce, who was white. In an Instagram video, Rogan - whose talk show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is Spotify’s most popular podcast, and has been available there exclusively for more than a year - addressed what he called “the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.” A compilation video showed Rogan using the slur numerous times in past episodes of his show it had been shared by the singer India.Arie, who has removed her catalog from Spotify in protest of what she called Rogan’s “language around race.”
As pressure has intensified on Spotify and its star podcaster Joe Rogan, listeners reported that the company had quietly removed dozens of episodes of his show, while Rogan apologized early Saturday for his use of a racial slur in past episodes.
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