Snoop Dogg had strong words for Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services during an interview with former Apple Music Creative Director Larry Jackson at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
“I know I’m going off-script right now, but fuck it. This is business,” said Snoop “In a room full of business people and somebody may hear this so the next artist don’t have to struggle and cry for his money because some of these artists are streaming millions and millions and millions and millions of fucking streams and they don’t got no millions of dollars in the pot.”
“I don’t know who the fuck is running the streaming industry if you in here or not? But you need to give us some information on how to fucking track this money down,” he continued. “Because one plus one ain’t adding up to two.”
He went on to include striking film and television writers in his argument: “I mean, can someone explain to me how you can get a billion streams and not get a million dollars? It’s not working for the artist right now and I just want to speak to that. That’s fucked up. The writers are striking because with streaming, they can’t get paid.”
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Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.
