JAY-Z turned 50 on Wednesday (December 4) and to mark the occasion, his entire catalog has been uploaded to Spotify after a two-year absence.
The streaming platform notified Hov fans via Twitter on Tuesday night (December 3), writing, “Happy birthday, Hov. Welcome back to Spotify.”
The Hip Hop mogul, who owns Spotify’s competitor TIDAL, has yet to make an official statement as to why he decided to share his discography on TIDAL’s rival platform. In 2017, Spotify was told his music had been removed “at the request of the artist,” likely due to his conflict with TIDAL.
But for now, every album from his 1996 debut Reasonable Doubt to 2016’s 4:44 are available for mass consumption. In addition, a deluxe version of his collaboration with Linkin Park “Collision Course” and singles such as “Numb/Encore,” “Blue Magic” and “Clique” are also up for grabs.
Revisit Hov’s latest album below.
So fucking happy! Welcome back Hov
Enjoying it. Jay used to feature heavily in my playlists going back to before streaming came in, but not being on Spotify (and hardly on YouTube) there’s a lot of his his tracks I haven’t heard for a while Making the most of the opportunity to revisit some memories, and remember how brilliant Jigga was at his peak, before it turns out to be a play to draw new Tidal subs.
Nobody is gonna subscribe to Tidal that hasnt already done it.
Thats cause Tidal is bunzo. Nobody is subscribing just to listen to Joe Camel. He needs all the streams he can get after this whole NFL situation.
As always the customer came last. A billionaire was in a petty argument with the largest streaming service and the customer doesn’t have access to his music unless they go with his tiny, irrelevant streaming service. Now that he has realized that his tiny, irrelevant service is in fact irrelevant, he puts his music back onto the largest streaming service so he could earn streaming revenue. Must really suck to be a fan of this self-centered asshole.
A cpl clowns below me. The only reason any big artist has their music on the streaming services is to make money off streams. Cant say Tidal is irrelevant just because it isnt the biggest one. If you were trying to launch something would you not try to give the customers of that thing something they cant get anywhere else? How does taking his music off spotify make him self centered? If you cared about the artists as much as you want them to care about you then you would have subscribed to Tidal to get then a bit more money off each stream. Also nobody has stopped listening to JayZ because of the nfl situation. If they were fans they are still fans and will listen regardless of what social media believes is right. Most of his fans have his albums because they came up before this streaming shit anyway.
Only King HOV can take away his music and bring it back like it’s nothing. Broke ass Nas doesn’t have the power or money to do so. Nobody cares about Nas except for Illmatic, which apparently pisses him off. It’s the only thing he can live by. All of King HOV’s music is celebrated. Happy 50th birthday to the King living the good life. Nas will still be paying child support at 50. It’s the ROC in here!
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Not every song is available. Watch Me Feat Dr Dre from Vol 3 is not there.