Kanye Wants Fans To Pay $200 For Donda 2!
Wow, Ye is really over pricing his music for his fans. Its sad when artists believe their music is so good fans will skip rent to make them richer. #SMH…
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While 50 Cent is making hit TV series and movies, Kanye West is so delusional, he is asking fans to pay $200 dollars for his upcoming Donda 2 album which will be streaming on his own platform, according to CelebnMusic247.com.
Ye announced on Instagram that the new record — set to be released on February 22 alongside a “Donda Experience Performance” to be held the same day in Miami — will only be available on his new listening device, the Stem Player.
The announcement is a welcome return to Ye discussing music on his social media, rather than his chaotic posts about his personal life, but true to form it’s still a bit of a shocking revelation.
Ye wrote:
Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player…Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube. Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.” He added in an additional post, “I turned down a hundred million dollar Apple deal. No one can pay me to be disrespected. We set our own price for our art. Tech companies made music practically free so if you don’t do merch sneakers and tours you don’t eat.” While the move is a massive protest for artist rights, it’s also a big gamble — but yet again, Ye has the clout and prestige to gamble like that.
The Stem Player was released last August in congruence with the release of the first installment of Donda. The beige, palm-sized, circular device looks like something out of a mid-budget sci-fi film and was created through Yeezy Tech’s partnership with Kano Computing. What makes the Stem Player unique is that it was ergonomically designed so that users can remix songs right from their hand.
CEO of Kano and frequent collaborator with Ye, Alex Klein, told Complex of the inspiration behind the device:
The technology intent was always clear: How do we make a device that’s super small, loud, that brings people together, and allows you to take the music and hold it in your hand or in your pocket?” He added that the device is meant so people can “create and not just consume.
The device comes preloaded with Donda, but any record can be uploaded to the Stem Player and remixed from there. It begs the question of if artists want fans to have such an easy ability, and even more broadly, if they want fans’ focus to be on remixing along with simply listening. But like with most things Ye, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks — Ye will do it anyways.
The Stem Player is currently priced at $200, and the fan reaction so far to the news is mixed. Some are seeing it as another one of Ye’s innovative strokes of genius, but other avid listeners are feeling priced out of getting to experience Donda 2.
Sorry but Kanye’s music is NOT worth $200.00!
We find this interesting since Kanye West‘s personal life is in shambles and he looks like a bitter ex-husband who was at fault from the jump.
