Snoop Dogg talks Death Row streaming service
completemusicupdate.comSnoop Dogg has announced plans to launch a new streaming service just for music released by the Death Row record label, which he took full control of earlier this year.
This follows the removal of the label’s music from other streaming services once that deal was completed.Speaking on the latest episode of the ‘Drink Champs’ podcast, the rapper says: “First thing I did was snatch all the music off those platforms traditionally known to people, because those platforms don’t pay.
Those platforms get millions of millions of streams, and nobody gets paid other than the record labels”.Of course, thanks to his Death Row deal, Snoop is now the record label as well as the artist, but he’s still not too pleased with how more conventional streaming services work and how little he earns.He continues: “So what I wanted to do is snatch my music off, create a platform which is something similar to Amazon, Netflix, Hulu.
It’ll be a Death Row app, and the music, in the meantime, will live in the metaverse”.“Nobody in here can tell you what a stream adds up to”, he says, returning to dissing the Spotifys of this world. “It’s a fraction of a penny.
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