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////// When Spotify announced a new policy that would remove the music of artists from
their owned and operated playlists for hateful content and hateful conduct, the message was
met with pushback.
After reconsidering, the music streaming giant reconsidered and canceled the new policy was
made official on May 10th.
Now we're getting some insight as to how that happened and it was in part thanks to Anthony
"Top Dawg" Tiffith of TDE.
Top Dawg's CEO was concerned about how Spotify was judging who's content was hateful and
who's wasn't.
Anthony spoke to Billboard about how these conversations led to Spotify backpedalling
on their original plan.
It started with speaking to Troy Carter, Spotify's global head of creator services.
Anthony said,
I don't think it's right for artists to be censored, especially in our culture.
How did they just pick those [artists] out?
How come they didn't pick out any others from any other genres or any other different cultures?
There [are] so many other artists that have different things going on, and they could've
picked anybody.
But it seems to me that they're constantly picking on hip-hop culture.
After that initial conversation, Anthony also spoke with Diddy and former Sony Music chief
Tommy Mottola, which led to them getting on a phone call with Daniel Ek, Spotify's founder
and CEO.
He noted that while speaking with him he made it clear that if this issue could not be fixed,
he would be forced to remove TDE's music from the platform.
Since that conversation both Anthony and Ek agreed that the policy was rolled out wrong
and that they both understood where each other was coming from.
So the decision was reversed.
Spotify addressed the change in a blog post saying that the platform does not aim to play
judge and jury.
For Anthony the reversal of the policy is a win for artist's futures.
"Censorship affects not only us, but it affects generations to follow.
This is for the future.
If they censor us now, ain't no telling what's going to happen in the future.
It's a slippery slope if you start censoring music.
You gotta let artists be artists and speak freely.
That was the main thing."
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