Season two, Mob Land, is about a high-rolling lawyer who joins forces with the feds to try to bring down one of the most powerful criminal syndicates in the country. Seven years later, their stories collided when a small town detective got a tip and became convinced that if he could solve one mystery, he'd solve the other. Season three, Never Seen Again, tells the story of two women, living on opposite sides of the country, who went missing in the summer of 1999. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals. Given that Black people were among the hardest hit by COVID and have built a music industry that historically shortchanged us-whether vinyl records back in the day or digital streaming today-now is the time for Black artists to stand up and represent.Īnd just to show we can chew gum and walk at the same time, NFL players, you’re next.Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Who will join India.Arie, and why haven’t other Black artists already done so? Some of the most popular artists on Spotify include Rihanna, Lil Nas X, Doja Cat, Drake, The Weeknd and others. If you’re paying attention at all, you understand the role of Black music in this world. “Most of the streams on Spotify are Black music. I’m not going to say it all here, but what I want to say to you, it’s something that I already knew, but I want you to know that they said it last night,” India.Arie said. “So artist relations from Spotify called me yesterday, and they asked me what I want, and I’ve been thinking about this all night. Know your value and do not subsidize your own oppression. They are making deals with Rogan because of you and not merely instead of you.
India.Arie calls out racism, sexism in the music industryīut understand Spotify is not making $100 million deals with you, Black artists and podcasters. I don’t want to generate money that pays this.
“So as an artist who builds…Spotify is built on the back of the music streaming, so they take this money that’s built from streaming, and they pay this guy 100 million dollars, but they pay us 0.003 percent of a penny. I also think that I have the right to say what I want to say,” India.Arie said on social media. “I empathize with the people who are leaving for the COVID disinformation reasons, and I think that they should also think that Joe Rogan has the right to say what he wants to say. Rogan not only used the N-word countless times but referred to a movie theater filled with Black people as Planet of the Apes- a comment which Trevor Noah condemned-and said Black people have “a different brain.” And he hosted a guest who claimed Black people have a gene giving them “a proclivity to violence” that white and Asian people do not have. India Arie talks about why she quit Spotify
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