Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty. This week on the show, CNN political reporter,

Wanna Fomors, and Morning Edition host Steven Skipe. All right, let's start the show.

Hey y'all from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute here with two wonderful guests in

person today because I'm in DC. Wanna Summers, Senior writer for CNN Politics, hello.

And Steven Skipe, who I hear every morning, host of two wonderful NPR shows, Morning Edition,

and up first. So I am playing a song today from Kendrick Lamar, not just because I love Kendrick Lamar,

but because he made some news this week, but first I want to play a little bit of this song.

Song is called All Right.

I'm playing Kendrick Lamar today because he and his record label have been in this battle with Spotify.

You guys heard about this? No, go on. So in May, Spotify announced a new hateful conduct policy.

So basically they said artists said it'd been accused of things like abuse.

They might no longer show up in Spotify playlist. Okay. So artists like Arkelli were affected by this.

So after that happened, a lot of people said, well, the artists are pulling off of Spotify.

All seem to be hip-hop and R&B artists, and they all seem to be black men.

And if you really want to be fair, you got to take off a lot of other people too. So there was

a lot of pushback and ultimately, where's Kendrick Lamar get into this?

Demo tell you. So his record label, Top Dog Entertainment, they said we'll take off Kendrick's music

from Spotify. We'll take off our whole label. We'll just go Spotify. This is like a voice concert.

Oh man. Yeah. So Spotify was about to lose Kendrick Lamar, which would not be good for their

business. So they quickly turned course. And they said across all genres, our role is not to

regulate artists. Therefore, removing away from implementing a policy around artists conduct.

We don't aim to play judge and jury Kendrick one. And when I wake up, I recognize you looking at me for the

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