It’s almost like one of those times a comedian gives an amazing performance in a dramatic role. “Georgia… Bush” is unique among Lil Wayne’s catalog, but there are few songs like it in rap, period.
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Maybe the most famous instance was “30 Minutes to New Orleans.” It first reared its head in a documentary called The Carter, with Wayne rapping it on a tour bus, but we wouldn’t get a full version for what felt like years. Would we get full versions of the songs? Mixed and mastered versions? For most of these, the answer was no. The leaks got him a buzz like no one had ever had. In 20, you could get on DatPiff, SOHH, or wherever, and there’d be new Wayne music. To his diehard fans, Lil Wayne’s ascent was defined by delays and leaks. As more and more artists continue to make exclusivity deals, the more and more complicated it will become to simply enjoy your favorite songs, no matter what Drake says.Click to load video 24: 30 Minutes to New Orleans It’s going to force consumers to choose sides. Nobody wants to have a Spotify subscription for Taylor Swift and an Apple Music subscription for Drake. The business practices of Apple Music and Tidal may force the hand of Spotify and smaller services like Rdio to do the same, and it will probably segment the music industry and it’s fans in a way that makes the consumer ultimately lose. That’s a lot of eyeballs that are lost once it quietly gets uploaded sometime in the future. The Feeling Myself video is still not up on YouTube, even after a month. Less people end up even seeing the content they want, because it is unavailable for them during the time they’re interested in it. These practices do drive sales, but in unhealthy ways. Every year there is a war between the two aforementioned companies for who will have the new Call of Duty DLC first, and for how long. Major console manufacturers like Microsoft and Sony poach successful game studios so That Game You Love can only be played on their hardware, at least for a time. Music streaming services are going down the slippery slope that has plagued the video game industry for years. Since Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj’s Feeling Myself video and Lil Wayne’s Free Weezy Album are Tidal exclusives, and Apple Music is the only place consumers can stream Taylor Swift’s 1989. Drake’s deal with Apple means that Jay-Z’s move wasn’t an isolated incident. That, at the time, seemed a desperation move because of an underwhelming launch event and low first month subscriber numbers. The first time platform-exclusive content rights in the music industry were used this aggressively was when Jay-Z removed his first album from all streaming services except Tidal. You see, Drake is going to release his new album exclusively through Apple Music, continuing the trend of exclusivity deals between major label artists and music streaming services. “This.simplifies everything for the modern musician like myself” says Drake, tense, during his final statements “and the modern music consumer like you.” This actually complicates everything. The new feature acts almost like a social platform within Apple music, where artist can share photos, ideas, demos, and new music directly to their fans. Let me explain: During Drake’s segment at the show, he brought up the interesting possibilities of Apple Music’s Connect feature. Perhaps those nerves weren’t completely because of the conference being broadcast around the world, but because Drake doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into with Apple Music. Uncharacteristically nervous, Drake stumbled his way through the speech and passed off to Eddy Cue, who went on to dance uncomfortably onstage to Cuban music.
He talked about the Internet and iTunes’ integral role in his meteoric rise to superstardom, and how Apple Music, the company’s newest venture into subscription-based music streaming, could afford other artists the same kind of opportunities. Drake, arguably music’s most popular former child star, was invited to speak at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference last month.
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