Is SoundCloud a Business or a Community?

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If the music-streaming service disappeared, a culture might vanish too. A conversation about where the tech and culture worlds collide.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:02.0	Popcast, your Ghost Tumblr and Finsta music criticism.
0:06.0	I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:08.0	Yeah, I came in with a saw.
0:10.0	Yeah, I came in with a saw.
0:12.0	Yeah, I saw in with a saw. Yeah, yeah, bitch, I flare red wrong. Yeah, yeah, I came in with a saw. Oh, yeah, I came in with a saw. Oh, yeah, I came in with a saw. Oh, yeah, I came in with a saw. Oh, yeah. Bish I flare red wrong, yeah.
0:24.0	Walking and trap like a boss.
0:26.0	Walking and trap like a boss.
0:28.0	Walking and trap like a boss.
0:30.0	Walking and trap like a boss.
0:32.0	Yeah, I came in with a sauce. Yeah, I came in with a sauce.
0:34.0	Yeah, I came in with a sauce.
0:36.0	Yeah, I'm also still working on the Sound Cloud thing. Here we are weeks later and I'm still working on the Sound Cloud thing. That was Little Pump. I just feel like we just want to hear a little pump when we're going to talk about how big
0:54.7	corporations are not punk and don't care about your artistic output.
0:58.8	So we have to start with little pump, that was Boss.
1:01.0	Lopump would not exist without SoundCloud.
1:04.2	And when I think how much is the career of Lle Pump worth, I wonder is it worth the 160 odd
1:10.0	million dollars that was recently used to bail sound cloud out. There's only one
1:14.3	person on the planet I want to talk about these things with. And that's Jenna
1:18.1	worth them. Hi Jenna. What up John? Jenna is a staff writer from the New York Times
1:22.3	magazine and a co-host of still
1:24.4	processing and she's here for some bonus processing. This week is a lot of
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