NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Joe Rogan, the favored US podcaster, issued an apology for the second time in per week, this time for utilizing racial slurs after a montage video surfaced displaying him repeatedly saying the N-word.
In an apology video posted on Instagram on Saturday (Feb 5), Rogan stated it was the “most regretful and shameful factor that I’ve ever needed to speak about publicly.”
Through the video, Rogan stated footage that emerged of him utilizing the epithet had been taken out of context, however seemed “horrible, even to me.”
Rogan’s apology got here after Grammy award successful singer-songwriter India Arie pulled her music from the Spotify streaming service, which hosts Rogan’s podcast, after posting clips on her Instagram feed of him utilizing the N-word.
In his apology, Rogan stated the montage confirmed him utilizing the epithet in conversations on reveals over the past 12 years, and included examples of him discussing its use by Black and white comedians and others.
He stated he had not spoken it in years.
“It is not my phrase to make use of. I’m effectively conscious of that now, however for years I used it in that method,” he stated.
“I by no means used it to be racist as a result of I am not racist.”
Media experiences on Saturday stated greater than 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Expertise podcast had been faraway from the Spotify Expertise service.
Spotify didn’t return a request for remark.