Kanye West has been a very vocal supporter of TIDAL, begging fans to subscribe to the streaming service, which is owned by his friend, Jay Z. He released his The Life of Pablo album and all of his recent music videos exclusively to the company.
There has been stiff competition between the three major streaming services, TIDAL, Apple Music and the OG Spotify. And now, West is calling it all BS.
Yeezy went on a Twitter rant today, specifically calling out TIDAL and Apple for their strained relationship.
“This Tidal Apple beef is fucking up the music game,” he says. “I need Tim Cook Jay Z Dez Jimmy Larry me and Drake Scooter on the phone or in a room this week!!! Fuck all this dick swinging contest. We all gon be dead in 100 Years. Let the kids have the music. Apple give Jay his check for Tidal now and stop trying to act like you Steve.”
Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976 and served as CEO of the company until his death in 2009 despite being removed from his position between 1985 – 1997. Drake has risen as one of Apple’s greatest supporters, introducing the company’s Connect feature at the Worldwide Developers Conference last year, hosting the OVO Sound radio show on Beats 1 and releasing his music and videos exclusively through the streaming service. DJ Khaled is also a notable member of Team Apple, hosting his We The Best radio show and releasing his content through the service.
Many artists, besides Yeezy and Hov, have shown support for TIDAL, including Drizzy’s mentor Lil Wayne, who live-streams many of his events through the company. When Drake performed at last year’s Lil Weezyana Fest, his set was not included in the live-stream, which was reportedly due to his contract with rival Apple Music. T.I. is the newest member of TIDAL and partnered with the company to give more than $80,000 to various charities for education. He has said that his next album, The Dime Trap will most likely not be a TIDAL exclusive because of affordability to his fans.
Jay Z has furthered the heated relationship by removing his music, including all three Blueprint albums from TIDAL’s rivals.
Taylor Swift has been an advocate for artists’ rights as she removed her music from Spotify and threatened to withhold it from Apple Music when it said it wasn’t going to pay artists during its free trial period.
The battle between Team TIDAL and Team Apple has been a long one.
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“There has been stiff competition between the three major streaming services, TIDAL, Apple Music and the OG Spotify.” There were no competition, TIDAL is NOTHING compared to the other two.
Lmao. Exactly!
Tidal and Apple are the only ones relevant and doing exclusive albums and it’s fucking up music whether or not Kanye is the one who said it. Everyone with a brain has been thinking it. No one should have to compromise or miss out on someone’s album because each of these companies wants 10$ a month each.
But these people are petty and only care about ‘who’s saying it’ over ‘what’s being said’. It’s stupity at its finest.
Some Roc Nation exclusives won’t make TIDAL relevant. Spotify is light years ahead of TIDAL. As of June 2016 Spotify had more than 100 million active users and about half a billion registered users. The number of paid subscribers reached 30 million in March 2016.
Dude that shyt out with all these fake asz numbers. Spot has 30 million users around the longest, apple has about 15 million users and tidal has about 4 million
It’s called capitalism, and it’s a good thing. Competition is good. It they join forces, it’s bad for everyone. Stupid ass kanye.
whether it’s good or not is highly debatable and capitalism is about competition only until they table an offer you can’t refuse.
He’s mad cuz Travis Scott signed to Apple.
lets just join forces so tidal doesnt look so stupid anymore, just give jay z de check and let him win
Sometimes I get lonely and stick needles into my dick.
Do you, player!
Haha wow i think ive posted like three times in the past month? And your still here blabbering fuck boy haha bet you just hate that schools about to start again huh? While you were sitting here thinking of me i was thinking about the $30,000 that went thru my bank account this past month bet your looking forward to making that much in 12 months once you get outa highschool huh? Or flunk out probably and seriously start a journal or something and keep all your little sick habits and gay gang bangs to yourself the world dont wanna hear about your problems even if your posing as someone else you fucking lame haha but hey just think youll have those times in the future to look back on and giggle about your little comments under my username a man you dont even know while me in the future well probably wont be commenting here at all cause shits getting busy got too much money to make places to travel and goals to accomplish but hey you keep telling everyone about your sick little hobbies though and posting on hhdx bet its the time of your life
Wow a new low for kanye. He admitted his turd album did nothing to rejuvinate tidal and is begging his competitors to buy out his dying company before they have to file for 50 cent i mean bankruptcy. And hes trying to make out like hes doing it for the “kids” and the “culture”.
Exactly. The ” . . for the kids” nonsense is just a smokescreen. Since going the Tidal route he’s lost out on that Apple money which is WAY more lucrative than Tidal will ever be. Anybody with a bit common sense can see this. Swing and a miss, Mr. West. Just be honest with the public.
… Where are you getting this conclusion from? You don’t think it’s bullshit to have three seperate streaming services that all have their own exclusives not allowing all fans to have access to all their artist’s albums first week unless they have a subscription to all three streaming services?
Keep fifs name out your mouth fool
drowning in lake or river gonna be painless for me. i believe in it. death is all i want. off! live and let die!
If people bought albums wouldn’t matter.
No one wants tidal. End of story. Over priced. No real exclusives. And end of day your renting music. All set. That’s why god made Spotify
First of all. Apple wants Tidal but don’t want to pay Jay for the equity he’s built. Just because you’re to broje to have respect for art, doesn’t mean ppl who actually want to pay artist for what they do won’t or don’t. Thirdly, if you know anything about what’s happenend in the last month you’ll realize Kanye has just signed a billion dollar deal with Adidas.. This is not about him not getting his music out there because of low sales through Tidal.. It’s about what Kanye has been about since he was doing 5 beats a day for 3 summers, the music
Jays music was on rivals? Never checked for him.
TIDAL is a failure.
I like Tidal
Did they really say “the OG Spotify”?
What kind of emo hipster clowns you got over there DiX? Maybe loosen them tight ass multicolered hipster pants and stop acting like you think you know whats up? Your article sux btw ttying to compare shitty tidal to iTunes? No. Just stop already seriously.
Thanks
Never used Itunes, Spotify & Tidal and I will. If I want music, I’ll buy physical copies only!!!
*And I won’t*
Lemonade brought 1.2 million subscribers alone to Tidal. so tidal will continue to win despite torturous interference from apple inc ( they wouldn’t allow the app in the itunes store when it dropped for obvious reasons.) 4 million subscribers mean at least 40 million monthly, not a bad number considering what Jay Z paid for it. Selling it is stupid because Tidal is the only one that pays the artists decently.
Kanye is just begging for some welfare really since JayZ can’t run the company.
Being like steve? Steve never begged or pleaded so thats where your already wrong steve solved problems didnt just beg for a resolution thats going to put the most money in his pocket gonna ask zucketberg to help with the negotiations too??pathetic