Hit-Boy has offered his opinion on a new bill that will force streaming services to increase artist payouts, and he’s not impressed by the solution.
The producer took to Instagram on Thursday (March 7) and posted a screenshot featuring news of the bill. The headline of the story said that Apple and Spotify might be forced to pay artist one cent per stream.
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Hit-Boy reacted to this news with a caption that showed the raise was less impactful than he would have hoped.
“they saying we fighting for a penny,” he wrote.
Some commenters were quick to break down the economics of such a bill.
One user wrote: “Y’all complaining but this is over a 300% pay raise and raises every indie artist up to a $12.50/album rate.”
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Another added: “this a huge improvement tho [crying face] i don’t understand why ppl complaining.”
According to Billboard, the bill was brought to Congress by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) who proposed using a fund to raise artists’ streaming royalties from their current fractions of a penny rate. Money for the increase would come from an additional fee equivalent to 50% of the subscription price on every streaming subscription. The hike would cost customers an extra $4 to $10 per month.
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Hit-Boy recently inserted himself into another hot debate in the music industry.
Last month, he came to Beyoncé‘s defense against those who didn’t categorize her latest songs as country.
Queen Bey announced her forthcoming country album with the release of two new songs during the Grammy Awards. But when a fan tried to request one of the tracks, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” on an Oklahoma-based country radio station, they were denied.
“We do not play Beyonce on KYKC as we are a country music station,” read an email in response to the fan, who then shared the interaction on Twitter/X.
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Calling the refusal discrimination, the fan who goes by the handle @Jussatto wrote: “This station needs to be held accountable for their blatant racism and discrimination against Beyoncé. @1001KYKC This is absolutely ridiculous and racist. You guys should be ashamed. I grew up listening to your station. PLEASE EMAIL THE RADIO STATION TO REQUEST THE SONG.”
When Hit-Boy saw a post about the controversy from Popbase, he took a screenshot of it and shared it to his Instagram with the caption: “TELL EM PLAY TEXAS” He then added in the comments, “Real country [fire emoji].”
