Although 50 Cent may not be able to manage his own money, the veteran rapper claims to know a bad idea when he sees one. According to the latest gossip news updates, 50 thinks Jay Z's streaming service, Tidal, is doomed to fail due to its inability to follow through on their claim to have exclusive access to new music by artists like Usher, Madonna and Diplo. Eminem's protégé claims that despite those artists being millionaires they don't necessarily own the rights to their work. In a related story, Jay's wife, Beyoncé, is said to be feeling as fit as a fiddle following her recent breast lift.
When Jay Z brought out artists like Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Daft Punk and Rihanna at his Tidal launch back in March it seemed as though the subscription service just might make it as an alternative to Pandora and Spotify.
More than six month later, however, Tidal has failed to perform and 50 Cent thinks he knows why.
During a recent interview with REAL 92.3 Curtis suggested that Tidal was destined to go down in flames as it will ultimately be unable to deliver on its claims to have exclusive access to popular artists' music (via Business Insider):
"They probably could've did something more exciting if they reached out, because the people you saw there don't even own the rights to their music.
"So they can't say it's going to come out of Tidal. It has to go everywhere."
During a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard argued that Tidal first major misstep was identifying itself with the multimillionaire struggling to collect every last penny they can from their singles, instead of the up-an- coming artists that have yet to make a fortune selling out stadiums:
"If I had been Jay Z, I would have brought out ten artists that were underground or independent and said, 'These are the people who are struggling to make a living in today's music industry.
"Whereas this competitor streaming site pays this person 15 cents for X amount of streams, that same amount of streams on my site, on Tidal, will pay that artist this much.
"I think they totally blew it by bringing out a bunch of millionaires and billionaires and propping them up onstage and then having them all complain about not being paid."
Unfortunately, Jay Z may soon find that he needs the money from the service's success if Beyoncé starts to get too used to having plastic surgery in order to make herself feel better.
One source in the latest November 15, issue of OK! Magazine claims that Bey recently got a breast lift and laser treatments to combat the damage done by nursing Blue Ivy as a baby, and now she feels great:
"Now she loves her new breasts."
What do you think of Tidal?
Is it about time Jay Z acknowledged things weren't happening and shut it down?
Or, does Tidal just need more time to take root the way Spotify and Pandora have?
Let us hear what you have to say about it in the comment field below.
