After years on end of free music, Curren$y is releasing his next album, Pilot Talk 3, exclusively as a $100 USB drive.
The New Orleans rapper took to Facebook earlier this week to announce the release format and news that Pilot Talk 3 will only be available as a pre-order through his Jet Life website. The album, which will come bundled with a Jet Life shirt and Pilot Talk 3 look book, will come pre-loaded on the USB drive along with videos from the album.
While the album will be a USB-only affair, Curren$y hinted about plans to offer a stream of the record online around the time of release.
Curren$y follows in the footsteps of artists like Nipsey Hussle with the high-priced and limited release format.
Earlier this year, Hussle reportedly sold 60 copies of his latest album, Mailbox Money, at $1,000 apiece.
Hussle’s latest release followed another similar rollout in which he sold 1,000 copies of his album Crenshaw for a $100 each in 2013. Still, unlike Curren$y’s plans for Pilot Talk 3, Hussle offered both Mailbox Money and Crenshaw as free downloads in addition to the high-priced #Proud2Pay campaign offerings.
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THIS DUMB ASS NIGGA GAY BALFOUR WILL BUY IT FOR $100. STUPID ASS NIGGA
C’mon, Spitta. Really? I’m not gonna spend $100 on a USB drive. At least have the shit up on iTunes for a good $10.
All the SHIT u done downloaded for free now ur cheap ass don’t wanna pay the dollar for music back taxes ninja Get use to it
waynes former ghostwriter
currensy is gonna have a grip of usbs lying around with his garbage ass material, its been done buddy. step ya marketing game up.
Stop talking like your urban whiteboy from the suburbs. Currensy has more money than you so he can do what he wants even waste money on usb drives that don’t cost much. FOH.
The difference is curren$y actually makes dope music u couldnt pay me a $100 to listen to a garbage ass nipsey hussle record
This idea is dumb. We can thanks nipsey hussle for the inspiration for this idea. Why not do something like try to get 30-50,000 preorders at 9.99 each. Say the album’s not dropping till u reach that goal. We’d see how many serious fans an artist has that are willing to pay for their music. There are many ideas an artist can try, how about a cd/vinyl, t-shirt/digital bundle.