Jay-Z pulls Blueprint from all other streaming services

[Entrapta310]

Reasonable Doubt is still on spotify,
Bring it on, Coming of age, and brooklyns finest was left on there

and he left izzo and renegade.

what is he trying to prove with leaving them songs and taking the rest?

 

[Maschine_Man]

we talking about content availability on music stream services though - not web apps and platforms (apples vs.oranges)

not really different though. Jay-Z is removing his music from those other services because they act as competition to his service.

just as they (if they were to do so) removed HIS app they would be removing competition for their services.

 

[Art Barr]

That's your opinion, note your age too.
The young dudes love music today, there's a lot more artists and a lot more fans

Older cats in the golden era used to say that music sucked back then too.

Personally I listen to plenty of genres, rap is my second or third most played genre. I listen to new music all the time (new could be an album from 2003 that I missed), probably 2-3 albums per week. It's not as if I notice the 10 bucks that's missing from my account.

I think you forget, hiphop is my culture.
So, there is rap first everything second, period.
I know other genres of my interest expertly or in a robust knowledgeable fashion.
I already siphoned through most of the history of music.
I know what is there and what is quality.

Young kids don't collect albums physically.
Nor do they pay in general so they don't know quality and streaming is eventually going to destroy music as an actual sellable commodity, too.
All because you have no connection to nuffin in any realm, culturally physically or mentally.
Nor is there a vibe to be connected to.

Streaming will kill selling music and after there is no culture from music in a cultureless country.
Maybe you will see the real danger in it.


People who don't own music collections really have no real connection and streaming will perpetrate this disconnect to extreme levels and an extreme loss of culture and even history.


Art Barr

 

[director_of_bands]

not really different though. Jay-Z is removing his music from those other services because they act as competition to his service.

just as they (if they were to do so) removed HIS app they would be removing competition for their services.

Apple and Google's only competitor is Microsoft ...Tidal has dozens, maybe even hundreds of competitors in the music streaming realm

 

[Harry B]

I think you forget, hiphop is my culture.
So, there is rap first everything second, period.
I know other genres of my interest expertly or in a robust knowledgeable fashion.
I already siphoned through most of the history of music.
I know what is there and what is quality.

Young kids don't collect albums physically.
Nor do they pay in general so they don't know quality and streaming is eventually going to destroy music as an actual sellable commodity, too.
All because you have no connection to nuffin in any realm, culturally physically or mentally.
Nor is there a vibe to be connected to.

Streaming will kill selling music and after there is no culture from music in a cultureless country.
Maybe you will see the real danger in it.


People who don't own music collections really have no real connection and streaming will perpetrate this disconnect to extreme levels and an extreme loss of culture and even history.


Art Barr

It doesn't matter, you are one person and these new kids are one person. If they fukk with and don't fukk with what you do, who is gonna separate right from wrong? It's art, shyt can't be measured. You are making up rules as if you were Jesus of this game, when other legends are starting streaming services and working with them. People listen to music digitally today, cause it's easier. I can switch between 3-4 songs from 3-4 albums within seconds, the same procedure would take me an additional 10 minutes and a lot of standing up, kneeling and on with CDs.

You can have your collections digitally? What's the difference between digital collections and physical? Yes albums like Blueprint can disappear, but a cd can get skratches, stolen, burnt up etc. I.e. There's pros and cons for both formats. Personally I've thought about collecting vinyls, but when I think about it I don't know why.

 

[beenz]

if all the streaming services start having exclusivity deals with certain artist, is the expectation that the music consumer will subscribe to all of them??? even if I didn't care about the cost, it's still a pain in the ass to have to go to seperate services just to hear different artist.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Apple and Google's only competitor is Microsoft ...Tidal has dozens, maybe even hundreds of competitors in the music streaming realm

Apple Music and Google Music are huge competitors though. No one else outside of Spotify is a real competitor like they are.

 

[AnotherRoute]

As a conusmer ( who is not a jayz fan). I find all this streaming albums on certain services really annoying . I tried the legal route I got to go back to downloading music again

 

[Art Barr]

It doesn't matter, you are one person and these new kids are one person. If they fukk with and don't fukk with what you do, who is gonna separate right from wrong? It's art, shyt can't be measured. You are making up rules as if you were Jesus of this game, when other legends are starting streaming services and working with them. People listen to music digitally today, cause it's easier. I can switch between 3-4 songs from 3-4 albums within seconds, the same procedure would take me an additional 10 minutes and a lot of standing up, kneeling and on with CDs.

You can have your collections digitally? What's the difference between digital collections and physical? Yes albums like Blueprint can disappear, but a cd can get skratches, stolen, burnt up etc. I.e. There's pros and cons for both formats. Personally I've thought about collecting vinyls, but when I think about it I don't know why.

You are talking about art and not culture.
You don't and never knew the culture.
So you talk this culture thief tongue based bullshyt predicated on making culture into art to take.
I am not fooled.
Hiphop is a culture and just because we have culture thieves in the business of rap does not authenicate them culturally.
Plus you are no bboy.
so miss me with your culture thievery based semantics which are rooted in thievery.
You have an affinity to collect vinyl but you don't and you have an affinity to listen to rap music but affinity real cultural affinity for hiphop you do not have.

Like why should we care if jayz culture thief ass takes his material off.
Who cares and sooner or later no one will care.
Except people of culture, who kept it vibrant just for you to get to this point to listen and indulge.

In a minute the culture thieves will ruin it for themselves and find the next sector of business to destroy the profitability of.

Since in general, most never dug in the crate.
They have no idea of what a great musical purchase is.

Streaming is not a physical purchase and real talk,.....
The more they continue to push not collecting or creating high quality music.
You will be lost in following that mantra.


Art Barr

 

[ATI]

good

streaming an album that good would be undignified

 

[Sithlord Piff]

My torrent app>>>>>>>Jay's album pulling power