Last weeks fans of the rapper Drake learned of rumours claiming he opted to leave Jay Z’s TIDAL wave two days before it launched.
This week, they are to learn that he has reportedly been offered a $19 million by Jimmy Iovine and his people over at Apple as he gears up to begin life away from the Cash Money music group.
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The company is said to have started talks with the performer with hopes of turning him into a guest DJ for iTunes Radio.
Reports add that the $19 million is also being used to lure the star into committing to other projects launched by the company as they plan to take on TIDAL and Spotify with their very own streaming service.
The tech giant wants to offer a three-month free trial period for its $10-a-month subscription service to get customers to sample its new offering. So far so good, but it also wants the labels to give it rights for free during that time.
The laughable request from the most valuable brand on the planet comes at a time when music buyers might opt to ditch the downloads in order to try a new free offering, creating a potential quarterly revenue shortfall for rights owners.
As for music publishers, we hear Apple wanted to offer lyrics as part of Apple Music, but didn’t want to pay extra — again, free is nice if you can get it.
Apple’s plans appear aimed at taking the best of Pandora, Spotify and YouTube and blending it into something that will outgun them all. There are plans for streaming music (and video), artists’ pages, a YouTube-style post-it-yourself destination called Apple Connect and a well-documented reboot of iTunes Radio.
Whether all of this will coalesce and result in a host of hot stars on stage with Apple CEO Tim Cook on June 8 will depend on who blinks first.
Kanye West has also been linked to Apple’s forthcoming assault on the music industry.
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Congrats to drake , Beyoncé should’ve done the deal Apple offered her too
no she shouldn’t have done anything, her and her man and others chooses to do there own thing with tidal, instead of working for someone else.i see no problem with that. and i see no problem with drake working for someone else gratz to them both.
@Aaliyah these people don’t look at the whole picture. They always wanna blame the white man that excuse is so tired.
Why would she give up on ownership and support the white man who owns something. This is why black people get no respect we don’t own anything. These guys will have something to pass on to their kids because they own shyt.they is how you build family wealth.
Exactly.
Always making it a RACE issue Smh stfu.
What??? You don’ even know what you’re talking about. STFU.
If Beyonce had taken a deal from Apple, that would have been a huge slap in Jay Z’s face, and probably would have been the end of her marriage.
This deal works best for someone like Drake who is a big name artist but has no major affiliations or ties.
But she calls the shots…
This is how the white man wants it. They give you a few million you endorse them,but they own everything. This is what Jimmy loviene wanted Jay z to do. Now they’re planting negative stories in the media about Tidal.they don’t want black people own anything.
so true.
Apple Connect? Sounds dsted, they should call it Apple Bite!
The race excuse is so hilarious when Jay-Z doesn’t even have 1 black employee. Kiiiiiiii
Tidal had black OWNERS. Black and Hispanic people work for the Hilton but guess what: white people OWN it and everyone knows that.
If you want to work for Tidal move to Norway.
Maybe if those blacks in Europe assimilate. And stop holding on to some of those stupid customs the would get an education and get a job at Tidal. All they do is hang up on religion and dumb customs and ready to kill people over religion.
So now he better do a U2 and make that Views From The 6 album magically appear on my iPhone without my knowledge!
I’ll get it while it’s free, but Tidal is the ONLY streaming service I’ll support. #iSupportBlackBusiness, sorry not sorry. Apple knows that Tidal and Samsung are teaming up.
None the less, congrats to Drake; make that money. Baby holding out on their checks anyways like a dumbass
Bet you won’t see no negative press criticizing apple for wanting artist catalog for free. But if this was Jay z they would ready to lynch him. These journalist has eaten the forbidden fruit so they are not objective.
lol, people can except the fact that Jay Z failed. Where was this “Black owns, Blacks support” when he sold RocAFella, RocAWare, went to Def Jam, made deals with Budweiser and Samsung? Oh ok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWBq12OJh0
This is a mess, Isnt he tied with TidalFlop?
???? cool