Women’s Group Not Playing! | Call For Chris Brown & Eminem To Be Pulled From Spotify
Los Angeles, CA — Spotify, recently put into effect a a new public hate content and hateful conduct policy — which basically means that if an artist has any song that’s defamatory (explicitly racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, etc), Spotify will remove every song of theirs from the platform altogether and cut off promotion of the artist as well; or/and if an artist conducts any outside behavior that clashes with the company’s values, Spotify won’t actively program the artists’ songs into playlists and they’ll too cease promotion.
As a result of Spotify’s latest policy, on Monday the streaming service elected to stop promoting artists R. Kelly and XXXTentacion, whilst too no longer programming their songs into playlists. That however, was just the tip of the iceberg! Women’s advocacy group, UltraViolet, is now calling upon Spotify to drop more artists from its promoted content such as Chris Brown, Eminem and Nelly.
Via an open letter released to the public yesterday, Co-founder / Executive Director of UltraViolet, Shaunna Thomas references R, Kelly and XXXTentacion while recognizing CEO Daniel Ek for illustrating “that Spotify is following the lead of Black women who demanded that these two men, who have sexually and physically abused women for years, not be promoted and celebrated.”
Thomas then proceeds to mention a number of other musicians who ought to separate under the streaming platform’s newly enforced policy against “hate content” and artists who have a history of “hateful conduct.” Among the names that UltraViolet head lists are Chris Brown, Eminem, Nelly and 6ix9ine, along with several non-hip hop acts like Steven Tyler, Don Henley and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.