EA Sports has issued an apology after they received backlash for censoring out Colin Kaepernick’s name in YG’s “Big Bank” song.
In the apology, EA Sports said:
“We made an unfortunate mistake with our Madden NFL soundtrack. Members of our team misunderstood the fact that while we don’t have rights to include Colin Kaepernick in the game, this doesn’t affect soundtracks. We messed up, and the edit should never have happened. We will make it right, with an update to Madden NFL 19 on August 6 that will include the reference again. We meant no disrespect, and we apologize to Colin, to YG and Big Sean, to the NFL, to all of their fans and our players for this mistake.”
I don’t buy this apology for one second. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they didn’t think they would get so much backlash from everyone.
— Madden NFL 24 (@EAMaddenNFL) August 3, 2018
