Joey Badass

How did you manage to go with that shift from blog era to streaming?

Or blog era to we're doing iTunes $9.99 and now all of a sudden it's $9.99 for the months.

and now streaming's here.

How'd you navigate that?

You know, what's funny is, you know, I just really roll with the punches, but the funny thing about it is I had the opportunity to really get in front of it, but I think my mindset was just a little bit close to it.

Cause I'm just like, like, what the fuck is this?

Like I,

I don't know how I'm gonna understand it.

When Spotify first came around, I didn't really fucking understand what it was.

I mean, it was presented like, yo, this is the future, boom, boom, boom.

But I couldn't really understand how it was the future because I'm like, okay, but people could just download the music on iTunes or some shit like that.

I'm like, what's the...

what's really the difference?

Like, I'm like, okay, people listen to music on YouTube, boom, boom, boom.

And then, you know, I was selling tickets, you know what I'm saying?

So it was like, I didn't really feel the need to be like, kind of take heed to what was going on there.

But I remember when there was like, there was like a Spotify story back in, I want to say like 2015, 2014.

and um it was on i think was it like fox news it was one of one of these news stations and they had used my first album as like one of the first examples of where streaming was going yeah like they was using like my my my metrics my data and shit like that was like they was using me they was using like drake they was using like a few other people and i was like

I remember seeing that and being like, but I don't get it though.

Like, you know what I mean?