Snoop Dogg lately went on an epic rant about how artists are getting jerked by streaming.
On Could 3, Snoop Dogg was a visitor on the 2023 Milken Institute World Convention the place he spoke on a panel together with Gamma founder and CEO Larry Jackson. The MIGC is billed as a gathering of “the most effective minds on the planet to deal with its most pressing challenges and understand its most enjoyable alternatives,” based on the convention’s web site. Throughout Snoop’s look, the subject of streaming got here up, which set the Loss of life Row proprietor off.
“[Streaming is] thrilling however streaming gotta get their s**t collectively,” Snoop Dogg stated. “As a result of I do not perceive how the f**okay you receives a commission off that s**t. Can someone clarify to me how one can get a billion streams and never get a billion {dollars}? That s**t do not make sense to me. I do not know who the f**okay working the steaming trade, whether or not you in right here or not. However, n***a you could give us some data on how the f**okay to trace this cash down. As a result of one plus one ain’t including as much as two.”
“That is the principle gripe with quite a lot of us artists,” Snoop continued. “We do main numbers with streams but it surely do not add as much as the cash. The place the f**okay is the cash?”
Snoop Dogg stated he likes the old fashioned bodily gross sales mannequin higher, the place artists knew precisely what they need to be getting primarily based on the share of their deal and album copies bought. He went on to match streaming to the present author’s strike in Hollywood.
