Kanye West came to TIDAL’s defense against a fan in an Instagram video clip posted by DJ Akademiks.
Yeezy fans are currently only able to listen to his latest body of work, The Life of Pablo exclusively on TIDAL. However, when a fan blurted out that nobody likes the streaming service, the part-TIDAL owner came to the company’s defense.
“Who said no one likes TIDAL?” Yeezy asks while he was signing autographs. “You’re a hater. There’s a lot of people who like TIDAL. What do you mean? You guys like it.”
The Life of Pablo was illegally downloaded over 500,000 times in a day after it’s initial release and one fan even asked if doing such a thing was okay because of the inability to purchase his project.
“I would prefer if everyone would sign up to Tidal,” says the “Ultralight Beam” rapper. “To get the album on TIDAL. That’s what I prefer.”
West has made plans to go after popular torrent site Pirate Bay for copyright infringement and loss of wages over the illegal downloads.
Tidal currently offers subscriptions to stream music monthly for $9.99 or $19.99 for lossless audio quality.
Ye announced on Twitter that The Life of Pablo will never be on Apple Music or for sale.
The clip of Kanye West defending TIDAL is as follows:
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I dont like tidal
DX stay recycling stories everyone else saw days ago when they were actually new
step up in this bitch like, yeah, i’m the one ya bitch like
torrent
I don’t love Tidal like Kanye loves Kanye, sorry.
Ill never hear this album, ill just stop listening to the artists that think they can tell me what to do with my money, I don’t care for any streaming service, I would rather just be able to go out to a store and buy music, I don’t like any artist enough to sign up for TIDAL, just to listen to there music. TI and KANYE were my favorite rap artist at one time, but since they putting they stuff exclusively on TIDAL, they have both lost a fan!!!
TIDAL is trash, apple, google, spotify…all garbage….
Tidal is actually kinda dope! I wasn’t a streaming fan until I tried it but, I was impressed. Mostly because of the exclusive content. The Big Sean DSP documentary was fire! It’s just different and we as consumers will have to adjust as the older folks did from Records to 8-traks to cassettes to CDs to mp3s to now streaming. I salute Jay for leading the change instead of conforming like others will soon.
Tidal is good but the price should get cut little.
I agree. The exclusive content is what makes it worth subscribing if you’re really into music and the artists. But it does suck for the casual listener. Ppl will have to get over not having hard copies of music as streaming will be the standard in a couple years. Hell, most new American cars don’t even have CD players anymore so that should tell you where things are going.
It’s the same price as the other major streaming services so w should they cut their price?
I would rather buy and own my albums. But especially fuck TIDAL. Kanye thinks he is business savvy but in the end this dumb fuck is going to lose a ton of money to people illegally downloading it because they can’t buy it.
Another one here not signing up for tidal. And he wants to sue pirate bay over it? Not exactly the exclusive place for free downloading lol. Someone is anxious over that $50mil or whatever debt and not making he best business decisions.
spotify is free, apple music is free… why do they think ppl would give 10-20 to bragadocious rappers who have it all already? fuck outta here
Apple Music is not free, Spotify is only free with limited features, otherwise they’re $10 just like Tidal is. Y’all would gladly hand over your money monthly to these white companies but a Black owned company gets complaints and hate. I don’t understand it. The old crab in a bucket syndrome, it’s sad man. Tidal has all the exclusives, the artists get a bigger slice of the pie, and they just donated 1.5 million to the cause. What’s not to like about that? Most artists are starting to go straight streaming for their music to combat cheap asses like y’all that are too broke to purchase an album or download so you illegally download it for free. Don’t spend a dime but are the first ones to complain if they don’t like the music. If you ain’t spent your money, your broke ass can’t afford an opinion.
You know most of the posters/commenters on this particular hiphop site are white right ? Why would the majority of them want to support a black owned business ?
Tidal needs to rethink things. Kanye just had the most hyped album of the year and it didnt crack the billboard charts cause no one could buy the thing and TIDAL wont release how many actual streams it got
I will never sign up for Tidal. When I buy an album I want something tangible, something that I can haveand own, whether it be a CD or MP3 Files. Buying a Tidal subscription is like leasing the same car your entire life. You can only drive as long as you pay = You can only listen as long as you pay.
the album is dope by the highest standards; but TIDAL is shit and everyone knows it. Kanye left millions of dollars out of his pocket over a failed marketing strategy for TIDAL. music should always be widely distributed; for the plain purpose of reaching out to as many people as possible thats why CHANCE is the man dude gives his shit out for free and makes a killing on the road. DOPE album though just my 2 cents
I actually like TIDAL. Im on the free trial and the 19.99 hifi streaming is noticeably higher in sound quality. There’s also a lot of original video content on there too. I just cant see spending $20 a month without access to more video, and movie streaming options.
Im going to download it illegally. I was going to buy it at Best Buy but since its not available in stores or even on YouTube I just said fuck it.
I do whatever kanye tells me. He knows whats best. I donate 10% of my income to him like a tithe and am always up to date on keeping up with the kardashians, especially kylie! I took out a eight thousand dolaar loan at 15% so i could buy some yeezy shoes and eight shirts, so if i ever see kanye out and about he’ll know im lit!
Drake doesn’t need that tidal crap. He knows he can already go no.1 on his own with that work single.
The most hilarious thing to me is to see Drake stans like yourself caping for the man so bad that you want to act like he did something great on Rihanna’s song. Drake’s part could be taken off and the song would be the same. Fucking troll defending his Lord.
Take Drake off and the song would have flopped.
No, it wouldn’t flop. It still would’ve gone to number one without him since Rihanna already has 14 number one hits. Drake can’t get a number one hit without Rihanna.
why the fk would anyone pay to stream you don’t even own the mp3. streaming isn’t the future they just trying to get people to stop downloading. a song will always be a mp3 file and tidal will flop after everyone cancels their 1 dollar service after the free month
i buy music. Pay for it.
No Tidal for me.. I want my collection in my car, at the gym, wherever WITHOUT the need for wifi.. Can’t stream Tidal so easy on the beach in Bali or whatever.
Plus as a DJ I wanna cut n mix the tracks, can’t really play from Tidal in the party can you?
Zz.
meh google play music has way more content for the same price.