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With his new “No Small Talk” season 2 TIDAL stand-up series growing in popularity, host Cipha Sounds talks to SOHH about Jay Z‘s entertainment platform winning with its flurry of exclusive releases.
In Cipha’s opinion, TIDAL has a chokehold on quality music as evidence with rap star Kanye West‘s The Life Of Pablo and singer Beyoncé’s Lemonade albums.
“Music-wise? Forget it. Music-wise, it’s the greatest thing. How many people had to get that Rihanna [ANTI] album and that Kanye [West The Life Of Pablo] album and Beyoncé? It’s great and it’s all traffic to me. Once you go there to get Beyoncé’s album or Pablo, my face is going to be somewhere around there.” (SOHH)
Young Hov’s growing streaming platform recently donated $1.5 million to pro-Black organizations and movements like Black Lives Matter.
The announcement was made on the same day that Trayvon Martin would have turned 21 years old. The Trayvon Martin Foundation will get a portion of these funds. Other recipients will include organizations created by families of police brutality victims, such as the Michael O.D. Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters Foundation and the Oscar Grant Foundation. (Financial Juneteenth)
Cipha recently spoke to SOHH about joining the TIDAL platform for his popular “No Small Talk” stand-up series.
“Eventually I plan on doing [platforms like Netflix] but the thing is Roc Nation and TIDAL are like hand-in-hand. I got this term I’ve been using lately, it’s like a mantra. Go where you’re celebrated, not tolerated. There’s no other comedy original programming on TIDAL. I’m known as the comedy guy of Roc Nation and around the TIDAL people. It’s not the normal route most people go, but whatever the normal route is now wasn’t always the normal route. The first person to do a Netflix comedy special looked crazy. The first person to do an HBO special back in the day looked crazy.” (SOHH)
TIDAL is currently one of the only places to hear late music icon Prince’s audio collection.
Prince’s backing of Tidal was deliberate. For all the flak the service has gotten from potential subscribers, he supported its pledge to pay artists for their content. On the day of his death, it’s the only subscription streaming service on which fans can listen to his music. (The Daily Beast)
“its the greatest thing” LOL and that comment has NOTHING to do with him being employed by Tidal right?????