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50 Cent Tweets Support Of R. Kelly And XXXtentacion After Spotify Removes Their Music From Playlists


Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images
Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images
Spotify will no longer promote the music of R. Kelly and XXXtentacion.
The streaming company introduced a new “hate content & hateful conduct” policy, and according to Billboard, it will be removing music by the singer from its playlists starting Thursday.
“We are removing R. Kelly’s music from all Spotify owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations such as Discover Weekly,” Spotify said in a statement. “His music will still be available on the service, but Spotify will not actively promote it.
“We don’t censor content because of an artist’s or creator’s behaviour, but we want our editorial decisions — what we choose to program — to reflect our values,” the company added. “When an artist or creator does something that is especially harmful or hateful, it may affect the ways we work with or support that artist or creator.”
R. Kelly has been accused by multiple women of abuse.
According to Pitchfork, Spotify will also be removing songs by rapper XXXtentacion, who was recently seen in a video allegedly hitting a woman, from their playlists.
The rapper responded to the news via a reporter on Twitter by questioning what Spotify will do about other artists accused or convicted of crimes.
50 Cent also chimed in on Twitter, calling Spotify’s decision “wrong,” noting that neither R. Kelly, nor XXXtentacion have been convicted of the alleged abuse.
“When we look at promotion, we look at issues around hateful conduct, where you have an artist or another creator who has done something off-platform that is so particularly out of line with our values, egregious, in a way that it becomes something that we don’t want to associate ourselves with,” said Spotify head of content and marketplace policy Jonathan Prince.
Spotify worked with several advisory groups including The Southern Poverty Law Center, The Anti-Defamation League, Color Of Change, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), GLAAD, Muslim Advocates and the International Network Against Cyber Hate in order to develop the new policy.
“Spotify is a trendsetter,” said Rashid Shabazz, chief marketing and storytelling officer at Color of Change, “and we are encouraged and hopeful that the new policy will encourage others in the digital music industry to follow their example, and look to address content on their platforms that may foster hate, discrimination, and bias.”

50 Cent Tweets Support Of R. Kelly And XXXtentacion After Spotify Removes Their Music From Playlists 50 Cent Tweets Support Of R. Kelly And XXXtentacion After Spotify Removes Their Music From Playlists Reviewed by admin on May 11, 2018 Rating: 5

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