
Of course, any arguments about Ye’s commitment to his fans are irrelevant if his music doesn’t arrive on time (or at all), and they’ve collectively paid millions of dollars for access to material that simply isn’t there. 2” collaborators DaBaby and Marilyn Manson. While the “experience” was made available to fans via a livestream – on, no less – they were first subjected to almost three hours of listening to Ye’s heartbeat, only to be treated to 45 minutes of music and yet more appearances from his controversial “Jail Pt. This isn’t to mention last night’s stadium-filling listening party at Miami’s LoanDepot Park. For someone who claims to be fighting to democratise access to his art – often through comparatively-affordable collaborations such as Yeezy Gap, though these come with their own accessibility issues – this does seem hypocritical. However, critics argue that the release also represents an elitist attitude that excludes fans unable to fork out over $200 for what’s essentially an MP3 player that (at present) plays a single artist’s music.

Should they be worried? Well, Ye did report $2.2 million in stem player sales over 24 hours earlier this week, adding: “We currently have 67,000 available and are making 3,000 a day.” Obviously, this framing bills the stem player release as a stand against conventional streaming services, which – as we already know – have historically offered artists a bad deal, besides generating various censorship controversies in recent weeks. It’s time to take control and build our own.”
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It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. Today artists get just 12 per cent of the money the industry makes.

“Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube (sic). “ Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player,” he writes in a subsequent Instagram post. At a recent screening of the new Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs, he even claimed that he’d turned down a $100 million deal with Apple Music for Donda 2 streaming rights (the actual details of this deal are unclear). Now, though, it seems that Ye is doubling down on the stem player as a platform for new music. Following the release, the device also granted fans access to several unreleased tracks. As suggested by the name, it allows fans to split tracks from the album into stems – isolated vocals, drums, bass, and samples – and create their own loops in real-time.

back on Death Row is being released as “Stash Box” NFT’s and he plans for Death Row to be the be the first record label in the metaverse.In case you missed it, Ye’s stem player was first unveiled in August 2021, ahead of his third Donda listening event. Snoop Dogg who recently purchased Death Row Records has also used technology to leverage more control over his music and increase his bottom line. We currently have 67,000 available and are making 3000 a day.” You can play 4 different elements of the track: vocals, drums, bass and music, it also has an mp3 player available. It’s time to take control and build your own” said Kanye. “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes, it’s time to free music from this oppressive system. “We did more revenue on the Stem Player without the album even being out than we would have done with the album being out on streaming” he continued. Kanye is referring to the standard payout of between $0.003 and $0.005 that artists receive per stream from streaming services. “To earn the $2.2 million, we made the first day on the Stem Player the album would have had to stream 500 million times” West said.

Kanye made news last week when he announced that his latest offering Donda 2 would be available exclusively on the player. Kanye West continues to dominate the entertainment news cycle, today with his claim that his Stem Player which he refers to as the “First Yeezy Tech Product” has brought in $2.2 million in sales in one day.
