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DaBaby is a raging homophobe and as someone who used to listen to his music, I sometimes still see it in my recommended music lists on Spotify. I wanted to change that.

While I tried to block the individual songs I encountered, I quickly realized that was impossible. However, what’s even better is that you can completely block an artist with Spotify.

So here’s how to block artists — like DaBaby, for example — with the Android and iOS versions of Spotify:

Open Spotify

Click the ‘Search’ button

Type in the name of the artist you’d like to block (DaBaby)

Tap on the three-dot (horizontal on iPhone, vertical on Android) menu button below the name of the artist

Tap ‘Don’t play this artist’ (on iPhone) or ‘Don’t play this’ (on Android)

These are easy steps regarding how to block artists on Spotify. It’s worth noting that even if you manually tap on a blocked artist’s song, it won’t play, which is perfect. It’s worth noting that I noticed all of the artist’s songs are greyed out on iOS, but this doesn’t happen on Android.

Additionally, if the artist isn’t the main name on the track, it will still play. So, unfortunately, “Levitating” by Dua Lipa featuring DaBaby will still play.

Either way, this is one step closer to getting rid of bigoted music on my Spotify-generated music playlists.

Jay Z has launched his own music streaming service alongside Rihanna and Nicki Minaj.

The ‘Holy Grail’ hitmaker acquired Tidal earlier this month and confirmed at yesterday’s (30.03.15) launch party that it will be the home to streamed music from no less than 16 top artists – who will also partly-own the service – including Beyonce, Kanye West, Coldplay and Madonna.

Speaking to Billboard magazine at the event, he said: ”People are not respecting the music, and devaluing what it really means.

”People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it’s good water. But they’re OK paying for it. It’s just the mindset right now.”

Alicia Keys – who was on hand to support the world’s first artist-owned streaming service – spoke to the packed New York crowd about the importance of ”preserving” music.

She said: ”Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music’s importance in our lives.

”Music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It’s the world’s true, true, without question, universal language.”

Like its main rival Spotify, the service will be a subscription-based.