Rap titan Jay Z could become the owner of Prince’s unreleased music if a hefty offer receives the proper sign-offs.
TMZ reports that the TIDAL owner has already put in an offer of about $40 million for the late musician’s catalog of unreleased tunes.
Jay Z reportedly even went so far as to meet with Prince’s sister, Tyka Nelson and her husband, flying them out to New York City to discuss the multi-million dollar offer.
For the offer to be approved, the Brooklyn lyricist would need more than just a sign-off from Nelson. Although Nelson is Prince’s only full sibling, the late singer’s half-siblings would also be required to sign-off on the $40 million offer.
Currently, TIDAL serves as the only streaming service Prince’s music is available on.
Months before his death, Prince expressed his confidence in TIDAL and Jay Z during an interview with Ebony.
“TIDAL is a new company, it’s brand new,” Prince said. “They’re just getting their footing, and I think when there’s a company like that, or the OWN network — situations where we finally get into a position to run things — we all should help. It’s been a lot of fun.”
“Im Not A Business Man Ima BUSINESS MAN!”
Only 40 mil? For PRINCE?! Thats a disrespectful offer. He will get that back that year…
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Jigga making power moves as usual.
I highly doubt that Jigga man gets the Prince unreleased catalog for only $40 million. He will easily be outbid if that’s as high as he can go.
people cant read..its not 40 for his whole catalog..its 40 for his unreleased music that no one has heard before. So thats a big risk
Doesn’t matter. 40 mil is very low for unreleased music for an artist such as Prince. That music is possibly more valuable than the music that’s out here. Jay trying to get over. I hope the siblings lawyer up.
Yea man, he has a huge custom vault thats big like 2 rooms full of music. His family said he can release an album every month for the next 20 years
Nas’ broke ass can’t even bid for a 30 second snippet of one song off Prince’s unreleased catalog. Only King HOV can do this! It’s the ROC!
STFU Nature! WE know it’s you.
Lmao dick ridin nature/ man nature moved to marcy!
Still garglin Jays stray semen.. im assuming your in a bidding war with jay over buying this eh? Since you have to have some MMs to call another man broke..
Males shouldnt be jealous thats a females trait
He’s gonna have a prince feature and lots of samples on the next album
40 million? that’s an insult! So they can do Prince dirty and sample everything. I’d pay 50 million if that’s the case. FOH Jay! I really hope they find Prince’s will.
An insult is not the word. They are beat his ass for that offer.
hating trolls! wat y’all know about the music business?? y’all favourite rapper can’t afford it so stfu n let hov do it… 40mill is a fortune… that’s drake half of everything he got.. maybe even less coz baby, Wayne, apple n others have a stake in him.. only jay, dre o puff can make such power moves so grab yo pip corn, play drake n watch hov do it. As if y’all even care bout prince foh
Technically, Jay by himself, can’t afford it either. He would have to sell his Live/ROC Nation share to raise those kinds of liquid funds without investors. Getting someone to buy ROC management and Tidal for 40 millions seems like a huge stretch right now. Probably easier for him to get money from Beyonce.
You tripping if you think Hov cant afford that he has a thorough bred he purchased for 53 million and a combined net worth with his wife they are worth a billion so talk what you know
Wow… you’re fucking retarded if you believe Jay Z bought a racehorse for $50 million. There was a rumour passed that Jay Z was going to buy a horse but nothing happened and the same ownership group still owns that horse(California Chrome). You also must believe that Jay Z “owned” the Brooklyn Nets. Also, “net worth” don’t mean shit unless you can liquify it easy. It’s easy to claim worth X amount but do you really think someone is going to pay Jay Z a few hundred million for his minority shares of ROC Nation (ROC management, Tidal etc)? Do you think he can swap his Roc Nation shares for Prince’s unreleased music? SMFH
Imagine if Hov paid 40 mil and when he got the unreleased material, it would be only Prince fartin, burpin’ and pukin’ on the mic and rambling about being high as a kite.
Jay making power moves again
That catalogue has to be worth $200 million now that Prince is no longer alive. $40 million just seems way too low.
i bet the same thing will happen for Dr.Dre…personally im sure you’ll find a lot of hidden gems, but if it was unreleased to begin with it might be for a reason..if Prince thought it wasnt his best work why in the world would it be released by anyone else..it wouldnt be an accurate reflection of the music hes always put out
No, he’s got lots of hits in there. He used to float them around but then got paranoid when people started bootlegging his shit. You can only release so much music, and people say he used to record 4 or 5 songs a day in his prime.
“Im Not A Business Man Ima BUSINESS MAN!”
HOV is crazy if he thinks he can get Prince unreleased collection for only $40 million. Even if there is only a couple albums worth of music, you can easily make that back from Prince fans. They buy records like them old people buy Rolling Stones, Beatles, Who etc re-releases
Thats the point!!!! He knows its worth waaay more!!! Thats just good business
Pretty sure Prince’s family and the representatives know its worth more than $40 million. Jay Z might be insulting them by giving such a low ball offer.
Prince estatecwill never sell his catalog.they could make way more than $40mil from it.
Worth way more than that. That bid has to be a joke.