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And I think he's going to make more money on this than he would ever make, working with Spotify and the other streaming platforms, a moment of

complete genius from Kanye West. I can't believe it's taken us this long to talk about. Yeah, if I'm being honest,

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So I don't know if you all attended to attempted to attend the live stream of Donda to yesterday at stemplayer.com, but it went okay and probably weirdly sold a bunch of these little $200 speakers called the stem player.

So I'm obsessed with the story because Kanye of course has a new album out Donda to and the only way for you to listen to that album other than the mediocre live stream from yesterday is on this $200 speaker the stem player he's trying to and this is very interesting because of our ongoing conversations about streaming Kanye is trying to diversify his revenue stream away from Spotify and other streaming services.

He's also he says trying to bring attention to how little musicians make on platforms like Spotify because of course when they first start out lots of musicians are happy to have anybody listen right at all so making any money is better than nothing which is how Spotify generally is able to pay so little so so basically Kanye is like no I'm not doing this we'll talk about the economics of how Spotify pays artists in a minute.

But I want to ask you Jason like what do you think about this $200 device which is preloaded with his album it's genius yeah I immediately saw this and said Kanye West is a genius I believe he's a genius obviously has moments of mania I'm not clinically describing anything here I'm talking about just straight up description of his behavior when he gets like manic or mania.

But you know I know a lot of artists and they sometimes hit a chord no friend intended yeah I mean worth you know that like you know he if you look at his music sometimes they'll have a bar that is so perfect you just wonder if this guy is Bob Dylan reborn right and I his early albums to me are perfection you know late registration graduation this stuff is just I people will look back

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