Prince has a message for all aspiring artists — don’t sign with a major label. The legendary artist spoke with a small number of reporters at Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis Saturday evening, and he compared record label contracts to slavery, NPR reports. The comment elicited shock from many in the media, but Prince says the correlation isn’t as […]
We’ve come a long way since Kanye uttered, “I’mma let you finish but…” He and Taylor Swift have squashed the beef once and for all, as she confirmed in Vanity Fair‘s September issue. Taylor told VF via Billboard: “I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort […]
If you’ve been paying attention, you’d know that it’s not hyperbolic to say that Apple Music has been dominating TIDAL. Jay Z’s business venture has been getting hammered by the press from the moment since that lackluster press conference. Now, it’s an afterthought. And soon, according to Hits Daily Double, Jay Z won’t be part of […]
Jay Z and Will Smith are teaming up to produce a yet-untitled miniseries for HBO about Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager whose death in 1955 kick-started the American Civil Rights Movement. 2015 marks 60 years since Emmett Till’s death, which came at the expense of flirting with a white woman in Money, Miss. Although […]
Future is gearing up to drop Dirty Sprite 2. So as we await its midnight release, I decided to play “Trap N*ggas,” to which a co-worker shouted, “Oh, that’s my song!” It’s a great song, amazing. It gets the club turnt, and you know everybody needs a blessing now and then. But what happens when one […]
In what can only be described as another low moment for conservative media, Sean Hannity has decided to compare two very different realms — the…
Over the course of past 4 years, music enthusiasts of all sorts have come to associate Labor Day Weekend with the Budweiser Made In America Festival and this year’s line up is sure to live up to the yearly hype surrounding the music megafest. The Budweiser MIA powers that be teased fans with the upcoming […]
Jay Z seemed to cement his narrative with a single line almost exactly ten years ago. Quoting it has long since been passe and yet he’ll likely never utter another as relevant to his second-act: “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business man,” he raps on the remix to Kanye West’s “Diamonds From Sierra Leone.” In the same verse […]
In case you missed it, Beyonce Knowles shared her secret for keeping a flawless body with Good Morning America on Monday morning — a vegan diet. While fans were…
Following yesterday’s release of “Glory” exclusively on TIDAL, it appears as though Lil Wayne’s relationship with Jay Z’s music streaming service is flourishing. According to Consequence of Sound, Weezy has joined the platform as an “artist owner,” and TIDAL’s Chief Investment Officer Vania Schlogel confirmed the news in a press release. She also alluded to […]
In the past, Sony CEO Doug Morris hasn’t exactly been a friend of technology in the music industry. He once infamously referred to mp3 players as “repositories for stolen music” and helped launch legal action against Yahoo and MySpace for copyright infringement. But in the midst of rumors Morris may pull the entire Beyoncé catalogue […]
It appears as though the problems just keep coming for Jay Z and his music streaming service, TIDAL. Bloomberg Business reports that Sony Music Entertainment is threatening to remove all of its artists’ music from TIDAL as frontman Jay Z has yet to make a deal with them regarding streaming contracts. Sony is reportedly asking […]
