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West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg is a savage with the memes. The hip-hop veteran has come after Spotify for dropping R. Kelly‘s music from its service.
Snoop Dizzle went to Instagram Friday (May 11) with a hilarious Denzel Washington Training Day meme clip.
Rap star 50 Cent hit up Twitter this week and singled out Spotify for censoring artists like R. Kelly.
Spotify is wrong for what there doing to artist like R Kelly and xxxtentacion. There not even convicted of any thing.
— 50cent (@50cent) May 10, 2018
This week, Spotify issued a statement claiming it would pull music from artists with hate content.
“We are removing R. Kelly’s music from all Spotify owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations such as Discover Weekly. His music will still be available on the service, but Spotify will not actively promote it,” a further statement from Spotify provided to NPR reads. “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. 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.” (NPR)
Along with Kells, select content from rap rookie XXXtentacion has vanished from Spotify.
The Times reported that a Spotify representative confirmed that XXXtentacion’s music was also being removed from the playlists. His song “SAD!” is no longer on the popular RapCaviar playlist; Billboard reports that it was there as of yesterday (May 9). (Pitchfork)
