Spotify won’t remove Kanye West’s music despite ‘awful’ alleged anti-Semitism

Kanye West’s music won’t be removed from Spotify unless his record label requests it, the streamer’s CEO has confirmed. 

Daniel Ek, Spotify’s CEO, condemned the rapper’s recent alleged anti-Semitic remarks as ‘awful’ but revealed his music would remain on the platform. 

He told Reuters that the comments made by West were ‘just awful’ but his music itself doesn’t violate their policies. 

Ek added: ‘It’s really just his music, and his music doesn’t violate our policy. It’s up to his label, if they want to take action or not.’

Had the rapper’s comments been made in a recording, it would have then violated the platform’s hate speech policy and would be removed.