Chance The Rapper
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Podcast Appearances
Like you went our building.
And but I championed that streaming thing.
And then what happened was, being honest, like it got commercialized and a bunch of, you know, people put their money together, labels, other people put their money together and was like, hey, we can offer full catalogs and music and basically, you know.
make this thing because people are like basically the music is always going to move faster than the industry like the ability to put out something is going to move faster than the ability to figure out a way to capitalize off of it but it's kind of a short space behind so we used to have music and compositions where people would send like sheet music around then
record companies were like, or publishing companies were like, well, we will publish the music for you.
And then people were like, okay, we're making vinyl records.
And then somebody who owned a label was like, let's buy all the vinyl press and plants.
So now we the record industry.
And then it just keeps going like that.
Napster fucked up the industry for a second.
And then that's when they was like, okay, well we need an iTunes.
So like, so somebody figures out a way to make the music accessible to everybody.
And then somebody has to figure out a way to make money off of it.
And when it got to the Apple music shit, I really was like, you know,
I'm thinking about myself in the moment.
I'm thinking about like, okay, they finna give me some cash.
You know what I'm saying?
I'll still own my masters.