Cyrus Langhorne
Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco isn’t the biggest Spotify fan. The hip-hop veteran has weighed-in on the digital giant and the music industry’s revenue system.
Lupe went to Instagram Wednesday (August 8) to explain why entities like Spotify do not ultimately benefit musicians.
Facts. 📸 @LupeFiasco pic.twitter.com/fVk0y09szu
— SOHH (@sohh) August 8, 2018
Earlier this year, Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame singled out streaming giant DatPiff for alleged shady business practices.
Na nigga, Datpiff y’all been making millions behind every artist back (Talking Streaming money) on Piru you only tweeting because I took down all my mixtapes u lames culture vultures🖕 #deathofDatpiff… I cracked the matrix #NoCap https://t.co/2z58JhUo8H
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
@KPdatpiff on my mamas soul you gone pay for that tweet #FullDisrespect
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
I waiting my whole career to find out how to get paid of my music without signing to 10 people!!!! All my money came from being Indy 🖕I’m exactly who I say I am a real BIG HOMIE & A walking LEGEND!! #BigOFactz
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
@KPdatpiff 😂🤣🤣🤣 pussy boi madd…. Don’t let Twitter be the reason you have a mouth full of ketchup…. you lame niggas letting this internet in power y’all 🤣 #shameTheDevil
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
Yea play the other role now lame!!! You got caveman number, you really capping and that shit got me even madder… 🖕 a phone you should’ve thought about that b4 your tweet Fucking coward!!! Social media really got you lames powered up smfh https://t.co/RUz8tAFD7d
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
@KPdatpiff Same nigga begging and pressed, four years later he slick hating!!! 👀 these snaky nigga #iJustMoveALiLDifferent pic.twitter.com/aW9LmWoouF
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
Datpiff finna give a lot of free looks away now🤣🤣 #deathofDatpiff
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
I have a mixtape streaming company I started 🤐 We paying every artist OnGOD
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) February 28, 2018
thank you Waka! i called Datpiff out awhile back and they blocked me from all their twitters! they also add TAGS to certain artists mixtapes and ruin them! ontop of their whole site being polluted with ad's now…they been collecting big bags FREE from artists way too long now!
— Mike (@9Clacks_) February 28, 2018
I wish dj’s make more mixtapes I miss those days
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) March 1, 2018
Love overate the hate
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) March 1, 2018
Originality gin get you signed
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) March 1, 2018
In June, Hustle Gang leader T.I. applauded Top Dawg Entertainment for taking a stand against Spotify over a censorship policy dispute.
A few days prior, TDE’s Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith admitted Spotify’s censorship policy rubbed him the wrong way and prompted serious action.
“I reached out to Troy [Carter, Spotify’s global head of creator services] over there, we had a conversation and I expressed how I felt about it, about censorship, how you can’t do artists that way,” Top explains to Billboard. “I don’t think it’s right for artists to be censored, especially in our culture. How did they just pick those [artists] out? How come they didn’t pick out any others from any other genres or any other different cultures? There [are] so many other artists that have different things going on, and they could’ve picked anybody. But it seems to me that they’re constantly picking on hip-hop culture.” (Billboard)
