Snoop Dogg Blasts Steaming Services For Being Cheap
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Snoop Dogg needs to know, “The place the f*ck is the cash?”
The WGA is currently in the streets demanding higher pay and different assurances from Hollywood, and Snoop Dogg needs the identical for music artists.
Talking on a panel earlier this week alongside his enterprise accomplice and former Apple Music government and Gamma founder Larry Johnson, plus Selection‘s Shirley Halperin, the West Coast rapper urged artists to boycott streaming providers for being stingy with the cash, they usually can take some lesson from the writers to make that occur.
“[Artists] have to determine it out the identical method the writers are figuring it out,” the “Gin & Juice” crafter stated. “The writers are hanging as a result of [of] streaming, they’ll’t receives a commission. As a result of when it’s on the platform, it’s not like within the field workplace.”
He continued, “I don’t perceive how the fuck you receives a commission off of that shit. Anyone clarify to me how one can get a billion streams and never get 1,000,000 {dollars}?… That’s the primary gripe with a variety of us artists is that we do main numbers… Nevertheless it don’t add as much as the cash. Like the place the fuck is the cash?”
YouTube additionally caught a stray from Snoop after Jackson spoke about Gamma solely receiving $15,000 in payout cash from 500 million YouTube Shorts streams. “YouTube, y’all motherf*ckers want to interrupt bread or pretend lifeless!” he added.
Snoop Dogg’s Beef With Music Streaming Is Nothing New
With the assistance of Jackson’s Gamma, whom he has a long-term cope with, Snoop Dogg pulled the enduring report label’s music catalog again on streaming providers.
Gamma additionally quietly helped get Dying Row’s music on TikTok in February. That transfer got here a yr after Uncle Snoop acquired Dying Row Information, therefore why he has been handing out Dying Row chains like they’re Halloween sweet. He additionally pulled the label’s music off streaming providers as a result of he was not feeling the artist payout scenario.
Throughout a Drink Champs episode last year, he didn’t chunk his tongue about streaming providers being low-cost with the dough.
“Very first thing I did was snatch all of the music off these platforms historically identified to folks, as a result of these platforms don’t pay,” he instructed the Drink Champs crew. “And people platforms get tens of millions of streams, and no one will get paid apart from the report labels.”
“So what I needed to do is snatch my music off, create a platform much like Amazon, Netflix, Hulu. It’ll be a Dying Row app, and the music, within the meantime, will reside within the metaverse.”
We don’t know if that metaverse or app will hit, however extra energy to the Doggfather.
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