Less than 48 hours after the internet went wild anticipating SoundCloud’s seemingly imminent demise, Chance The Rapper has apparently saved the beloved music sharing service. Upon hearing the news on Thursday (July 13), Lil Chano took to Twitter to claim he was “working” on it. (SoundCloud was integral to getting his music out into the world when he was first starting his career.)
Hours later, he returned to his preferred social media platform to announce, “Just had a very fruitful meeting with Alex Ljung. @SoundCloud is here to stay.”
SoundCloud quickly replied, “*airhorn* Spread the word: your music isn’t going anywhere. Neither are we.”
While this offers a lifeline to countless musicians who use the service, there are no clear details on what went down behind closed doors. SoundCloud laid off 40 percent of its employees, and might possibly close its San Francisco and London offices. For now, it seems all is well.
The Chicago MC has been in a charitable mood over the past year. The Grammy Award-winning artist has already donated millions of dollars to Chicago Public Schools and continues to help his community – both at home and (evidently) online.
Check out the tweets above.
i dont care who did it just stoked it isnt going anywhere. best free music streaming platform
spotify, brotha
Fuck Spotify and fuck you too Desmond. Go fuck your fuckhole you stupid fuck!
Rappers doing good!
Dude’s eyes are about 6.5 inches apart 🙂
All these suspect ass dudes on here… always commenting on the physical appearance of rappers. What does it matter what Chance or anyone else looks like?
Don’t mind him/her its that passive aggressive insecurity thats fuckin with him/her, people like Chance make them feel invaluable
How? How did he save SoundCloud? Fucking hell, can we get some journalism in Hip Hop please? You can’t just say he did and then write a vague article.
IDK what he did but it’s a good look.
This doesn’t explain very much. Even if Chance donates(d) money to them, if Soundcloud doesn’t implement strategies to get them out of this hole the same thing will come to pass just at a later date.
Chance is an amazing dude, but Chance is not SoundCloud savior, no one can save a company worth more than them in less than 48hours especially when he’s not a VC or part of the board of directors, SoundCloud has been anticipating their fall for years/months. It is plausible that Chance became an partner & gained some shares/equity in the company but to call him the sole savior without any research or just some tweet updates….cmon HHDX i know you guys have become a gossip site to keep the servers on but do some real research for once, wtf is this
bro thank you…i fuck with chance..but this is urking me lol…everyone saying he saved a quarter billion dollar company…come on niccas. he saw an opportunity to interject his brand and did.
and the only way he could buy shares on the secondary market..meaning his equity stake wouldnt even being meaningful. this is real G-speak for the kiddies lol
Thank you man. Real talk
It looks like he gave them a …. chance.
Same lame ass gay ass joke everywhere, why not take a ‘chance’ and be original
Give the guy a chance man.
The problem is we don’t actually listen to chance lol you people just think we like him or should like him so you keep reporting on him and somehow made this clown popular.
Speak for yourself b!tch.. a lot of us on here fuck with Chance.. real hip hop over that new gen trash.
You saying a dude’s ugly? LMAO! When guys start commenting on other guys looks, thats suspect af.
i like dick so what’s the problem yo
Well this is a pop music site, always has been about rappers with “Pop Value”
Let this trash ass platform die. We got Bandcamp & Audiomack.
Soundcloud is better than those combined.
Chance is dope. and soundcloud is better then tidal salute.
Chance the Chump should be his rap name. I get tired of hearing about this overrrated chump. I doubt he’s really independent. They are secretly funding his albums and promoting him to see if it is the deathkneel of their record labels as we know it. They want to see if an independent rapper can make it globally when they are “alone”.
quit bitchin
Chance is fucking dope anyone who doesn’t like chance is probably just some angry old head that’s listened to like three of his songs. Probably didn’t even know who he was until he realeased 3, and even then only heard no problem and allnight. Chance has a real fan base that’s been around since like 2011
Shit I meant colouring book, idk why I always call it 3.
His extremely wealthy dad and the mayor pulled some strings? That is what made this bug eyed shit a famous “rapper” in the first place.
Wow. Considering he paved his own way? You sound bitter like someone who sits behind a monitor all day sad with their life, and taking your misery out on others.
Says the guy sitting behind a monitor all day trolling online trolls…
Is that you Chance? Or some sorta knights defending this no talent clown, who keeps on poppin up in the news? Dont believe he actually has fans.
Paved his own way???
Like stealing ACID RAP from ESHAM.
Fuck that silver spoon Ricky Schroeder lame chance
Paved his own way…..on what planet???? His dad and the mayor have called in so many favors to ram this idiot kid down everyone’s throats.
Quit bitchin kid.
Im just glad The Grammys gave Chance The Rapper award for Hip Hop album of the year.
Thought they were going to give it to Drake for his Views From The Trash
Views is way better than ANY album Chance has made. Get off Chance’s sack. You sound gayer than Tyler the Creator talkin bout kissin white boys.
Views from the trashcan??? LOL
I still cant figure out whats more trash. Views From The Trash Can or More Trash
I’d rather listen to Yachty and Uzi Vert than Chance. That homo is gayer than Tyler the Creator kissin white boys for the past 13 years.
Some of you are so ignorant with your homophobic insults, and childish attacks, probably wish you had what he has, humbleness and real talent not mumbling and wearing colored dreads and matching dresses, Tyler was always trash, he actually charts on the billboard?? Im shocked
So how again exactly did Chance save Soundcloud?
I’m not a big fan of his music, maybe I haven’t heard enough of his stuff (please tell me his best songs if you like his music), but this is something very important that needed to be saved because it is an independent artist’s main outlet to promote his/her music. Thanks for whatever you did to keep this platform available to all!