This included Florida rapper XXXTentacion, who is facing a boatload of different charges, including false imprisonment, witness tampering, and aggravated battery of his then-pregnant girlfriend.ĭespite the heinous nature of the allegations leveled at XXXTentacion, one of the biggest and most celebrated rappers around, Kendrick Lamar, decided to personally intervene on his behalf. 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…So we’ve decided that in some circumstances, we may choose to not work with that artist or their content in the same way - to not program it, to not playlist it, to not do artist marketing campaigns with that artist.After a large and vocal outcry against R&B superstar R Kelly caught fire on social media, with the goal of wiping his music off of some of the biggest streaming services on the planet, Spotify decided to enact a new hateful conduct policy, that took Kelly’s music off some of their most popular playlists, but also a collection of other artists that have been accused of sexual and assault crimes. 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.īillboard also spoke with Jonathan Prince, Spotify’s VP/head of content and marketplace policy. We don’t censor content because of an artist’s or creator’s behavior, but we want our editorial decisions - what we choose to program - to reflect our values.

His music will still be available on the service, but Spotify will not actively promote it. Kelly’s music from all Spotify owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations such as Discover Weekly.

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