Drakes Team Calls Out Tidal

[The_King_of_Everything]

“The decision to not have Drake participate in the Tidal steam has nothing to do with Apple or Drake’s deal,” Drake’s manager Future The Prince told BuzzFeed News. “Point blank, 100 percent. I made a business decision. Apple doesn’t have the power to stop us from being part of a live stream. The only people that have the power to do that are Cash Money and Universal, and they’re our partners.”


So why is Tidal very publicly saying otherwise? Not only did the company take to Twitter to lambaste Apple for interfering with its stream, it blacked out what would have been Drake’s portion of the stream with a slide lambasting Apple as a Big Brother “interfering with artistry.”

“I don’t understand,” Future said. “If you’re going to say something about the situation publicly, you should tell the truth. They saw the opportunity to take a situation and spin it in their favor as a publicity stunt.”

As for the rationale for withholding Drake’s performance from the live stream of a benefit concert, Future insisted it was related to Drake’s image — not his business deals. “We wanted to make sure the stream represented us in the right way, and we didn’t have much insight into what they were doing,” he said. “Aesthetics and quality are important to us and we didn’t have any control over that or time to investigate it. We were just there to participate in the benefit.”

 

[Cory MBA]

:jaysmith:

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Future the Prince is his DJ.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

A representative for Tidal sent Billboard the following statement about the incident: "We have all the email receipts and written correspondence that took place with said, blocked performance. That being said we choose to keep it classy. Great show to all the performers. Great performance Wayne. God Bless New Orleans. 10 years stronger."

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[The Devil's Advocate]

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they know damn well they lying... you sign for 20 mil and apple has NO power over you... yea fukking right

now drake's people need to see and know how shyt is streamed? what else was they gonna put besides "drake at the concert" and some graphics and shyt

 

[mson]

they know damn well they lying... you sign for 20 mil and apple has NO power over you... yea fukking right

now drake's people need to see and know how shyt is streamed? what else was they gonna put besides "drake at the concert" and some graphics and shyt

Exactly. Represented us in the right way? We didn't have time to investigate? Gtfoh.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Had to do with his image?

The guy just got caught with reference tracks from a ghost writer and has still been pretty untouchable, the fukk they worried about?

And it's naive to think that Apple doing a stream deal with Drake didn't have anything in the contract about him working with other services.

 

[comfortablynumbd]

jay z is a fukkin loserrrr

he is the one that been trying to create animosity between his shytty service and the competition from day one

but there's an agenda against him lol fukk outta here

 

[SunZoo]

I told yall, Jay is going to be the next person to diss dude.

 

[itsyoung!!]

sounds like Apple slide him some $ to be the fall guy for this

As for the rationale for withholding Drake’s performance from the live stream of a benefit concert, Future insisted it was related to Drake’s image — not his business deals. “We wanted to make sure the stream represented us in the right way, and we didn’t have much insight into what they were doing,” he said. “Aesthetics and quality are important to us and we didn’t have any control over that or time to investigate it. We were just there to participate in the benefit.”

this quote makes me think apple aint want the blame for this so they put it on him

how can a concert benefiting hurricane katrina possibly represent you the wrong way over songs, youve been performing already

 

[Prominence0]

I told yall, Jay is going to be the next person to diss dude.

 

[Foxmulder]

fukk Tidal, Spotify and Apple.

 

[DarrynCobretti]

welcome to big business politics brehs

when it comes corporations, rappers minuswell call em daddy

 

[jwinfield]

now drake's people need to see and know how shyt is streamed? what else was they gonna put besides "drake at the concert" and some graphics and shyt

at Drake not wanting his part to be streamed because he didn't get a chance to look at the compression algorithm