“Rapper Kanye West in a minor tweet storm on Saturday called on Apple to purchase Apple Music competitor Tidal, saying he wants to put an end to the ‘beef’ between the two streaming music providers,” AppleInsider reports.
“West said Apple’s rivalry with Tidal is a detriment to the music industry, and he’s calling on executives from both companies to come together to discuss sale terms,” AppleInsider reports. “Specifically, he wants to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Beats cofounder Jimmy Iovine, Apple Music Larry Jackson and Tidal owner Jay-Z — as well as Drake, for some reason — this week.”
“‘F— all this dick swinging contest. We all gon [sic] be dead in 100 Years. Let the kids have the music,’ West said. In an apparent reference to late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, he added, “Apple give Jay his check for Tidal now and stop trying to act like you Steve,” AppleInsider reports. “While he failed to elaborate, West is likely referring to negotiations related to a potential Tidal acquisition.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The kids already have their music, thanks to Apple Music. Jay-Z will get his check as soon as he realizes it won’t be anywhere remotely close to the $3 billion that Iovine and Dre got for Beats, which came with a billion-dollar brand and headphones business.
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Isn’t this this same person who said his music would never be on itunes/apple music? Does he have a stake in Tidal?
It is. It is. The same loser.
What a bunch of entitled d***k sw***ers.
They don’t give a crap about letting “the kids” have their music, they are losing their shirts and just want a big fat check from Apple.
Tidal offers Apple nothing they don’t already have and should go the way of the Palm Pilot.
It’s pretty obvious that Tidal would greatly benefit from being bought by Apple, but it’s hard to see what benefit Apple would gain from doing so.
Unless there’s a significant upside for Apple, they won’t be making any type of deal with Tidal. Apple can simply sit tight and watch Tidal ebb away.
What a total joke – if one could buy Kanye for what he’s worth & sell him for what he’s actually worth they’d be the richest person in the world – he just needs to go crawl in a rock somewhere & disappear! What an idiot….
“… if one could buy Kanye for what he’s worth & sell him for what he’s actually worth they’d be the richest person in the world…”
You might want to re-think that deal, as selling him for what he’s actually worth would leave you quite substantially, in the hole. Classic buy high, and sell low.
So, Apple should follow-up one bad deal (Beats) with another (Tidal)? Apple could have developed their own, superior brand of headphones and expanded their music offerings for far less than the $3 Billion paid for Beats.
Sorry, how was Beats a bad deal? At over a billion a year in sales they got the music service for free after 2 years.
Sales≠profits, the profits, or potential for them, define the value. Beats products will never make $1b pa.
Those overpriced headphones must have large margins.
They are and they do.
Yeah, Those shitty headphones are nothing but profit. At around $1.5B a year, they easily make 1b in profit.
Is Kayne bankrupt yet? Poor Kayne. What a crybaby.
His wife is the one with the brains. Scary, Huh??
PS, she is the one making all the money lately, too.
They already gave their money to a bunch of thugs when buying Beats. . .Now Kanye is demanding money from Apple? Apple could do what they want as they have proven themselves to be the superior company with iTunes and Apple music by carrying great artists such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, and many others who use REAL instruments.
Kanye is a joke just like his garbage that he considers music.
Tidai (or whatever it is called), Jay Z, and Kanye can shove their company up their *****.
Kayne West, et al, are suffering from Adult Brat Syndrome, and Poor Me Syndrome, and having tantrums!!! Grow up !!! 🖖😀⌚️
I like “Adult Brat Syndrome”
That describes Kanye, and some others, perfectly. To bad the acronym also mean Anti-Lock Braking System
It’s also worth pointing out that ABS is also an acronym for Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, which is a type of cheap and common plastic which can’t withstand heat.
Absolutely! All my dirt bike fenders were made of ABS.
STFU Kanye.
Beat me to it!
Black wallets matter
Yes. But lunatic bloated egos of any strain do not matter. They do annoy.
I agree with President Obama. Kanye is a jackass.
Entitled? Hahahahaha
Karaoke Kanye.
Ignore this child.
I guess Kim doesn’t give him a big enough allowance.
Kanye’s career and music are dead to me NOW. He’s just an annoying gnat married to another sense-of-entitlement media brat. Money for no-talent thugs is right. Take a long walk off a short plank over a deep chasm Kanye. Not exactly “Mr. Subtle” is he? Funny how hard he tries to be so unlikable – and suck-seeding!
Isn’t he a Hillary supporter?
First
Of
All,
Does
Anyone
Use
Tidal?
I’ve
Never
Heard
Of
A
Single
Person
That
Uses
This
Service.
Also,
Why
Does
Apple
Need
This
Company
Other
Than
To
Appease
The
Likes
Of
Jazzy
Or
These
Other
Folks?
In
My
Opinion,
Apple
Should
Just
Walk
Away.
I’m
Sick
Of
Hearing
This
Nonsense
About
“Hard-
Nosed”
Negotiating
Tactics.
They
Are
Apple
For
Crying
Out
Loud!!
Ah, so you use the iOS app from time to time….
Yes
I
Use
All
He
Application
Made
From
Apple
So……
2
Linternet
Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm…….. That is alphabet. True. The alpha Bryan pals
Apple doesn’t make the IOS app from MDN.
Hey Kanye, I am just curious if you are getting a commission from a would be sale? We remember how you went on Twitter to ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for 1 Billion dollars to “invest” in you. Seriously, Twitter to ask Facebook founder for $$$. “Is you stupid or something”? – Bubba’s mother from Forrest Gump. But sorry Kanye, one Comedy Central is enough!
http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/02/17/mark-zuckerberg-disses-kanye-west-ask-billion-dollars-twitter-debt/
Tidel=DCW
Pono shut down, soon to die.
Which direction should the next bunch of racist cops point their guns to and empty their mag? Kanye West, of course.
Where are the revenue, expense, and Kanye received numbers?
“West said Apple’s rivalry with Tidal is a detriment to the music industry.”
Translation: “Help! We’re losing badly! Give us losers in every way lots of money for nothing!”
Kanye should change his name to a picture of dog excrement and henceforth be known as “the artist known as crap.” Just a thought.
Music? What music?
Black Lives Matter.
Now gimme’ your money, white boy.
Kanye could just say Tim Cook is being racist by not buying Tidal.
The Silicon Valley Leftist Cabal would be like in their calculating the Politically Correct Algorithm to see who wins (“he’s gay but white and rich and old but, Kaye is rich too but black, but, but, but oppression reparations zzzzzzzzttttttttttt”)
lol…
“be like (insert trump video of him mocking Serge Kovaleski)” got cut by putting it in brackets by accident.
Sorry, the tide is out!
Who is Kanye West?