Jay Z held his first exclusive concert for Tidal subscribers at New York City's Terminal 5 on Saturday, which was called Tidal X: B-Sides and featured a headline-making freestyle about the backlash he’s received since launching the service.
Jay Z targeted Apple, Google, Spotify, YouTube and more during the freestyle, as well as mentioning the African American victims of police violence; Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.
He alluded to the fact that he got offers from many major companies but ultimately decided to start his own.
"Jimmy Iovine offered a safety net / Google dangled around a crazy check / I feel like YouTube was the biggest culprit / Them ni--as pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get,” he rapped, Rolling Stone reports.
He brought up Spotify and followed up on his accusations that they shelled out millions to block the success of Tidal.
“It's cool, I know they're trying to bamboozle you / Spending millions on me to try to confuse you / I had to talk to myself, 'Hov, you're used to it' / It's politics as usual,” he continued.
He then requested a moment of silence for the late B.B. King and paid tribute to him by playing his song “The Thrill is Gone.”
“We lost a legend, B.B. King. And I just wanted to play something for him real quick, just to give him a moment of silence,” he told he crowd.
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