Last night at his Life of Pablo Tour stop in Seattle, Kanye expressed his frustration over the holdup of the sequel to him and Jay Z’s Watch The Throne 2 album because of, as he puts it, “this TIDAL/Apple bullshit”. I can appreciate his frustration, but he had to know what he was signing up for when he stood on that stage with Jay back in 2015. These kinds of political roadblocks were inevitable once these services decided they were going to insist on keeping certain albums and songs all to themselves.
I’m not sure what the holdup is in this situation, but I can only assume that TIDAL wants to keep the album exclusive to their service and Kanye probably wants it on Apple Music, because why wouldn’t he? Interestingly enough, Kanye says that the reason that the version of Drake’s “Pop Style” with him and Jay didn’t appear on Views was because Jay didn’t want to insult his friend Meek Mill.
Then he says it turned into a disagreement about “percentages on songs”, so who knows. At the end of the day, we as listeners shouldn’t have to care about this shit. Just give us our music and figure that shit out among yourselves however you need to. But you need to figure it out quickly, because now we’re at a point where we’re paying for multiple services and we still can’t get the music we want.
