Speech: Steve Jobs Single-Handedly Crushed The Music Industry, Arrested Development's "Arrogance" 

Hiphop was classic when the music industry sold the physical cd, records, cassettes.

💯💯Being Broke Is Not Enough To Sell My Soul. Money Comes, Goes And Get Collected. Soon We Not Gonna Be Able To Do Nothing With The Dollar Bill But Wipe Our Backside….

Internet wiped out Tower records and the mom and pops stores.

I used to think his joints was alright, I never knew how wise Speech is. The brother drops jewels. If I remember correctly Napster is when the b.s. began in the digital age.

I agree 100000%! Example: when a new PE album was coming out I would sit down, listen and read the liner notes, etc.

On point Speech...Sean Parker started the crushing of the music industry 25 years ago with Napster (which still is in existence right now). It was called file sharing at the time, now it's rephrased as "streaming".

If it’s not physical you don’t own it, even your phone/cloud storage can take it away At least a physical copy you can transfer to other mediums

Peace and blessings

I totally agree it’s like a ritual going to buy a album that came out, you got to open it with excitement look at the artwork and of course read the credits while listening to the album. Definitely miss those days smh.

MP3s and file sharing made it digital, and the companies were scared. Steve Jobs solved the problem for the companies and artists, and properly packaged and presented albums for all consumers on iTunes for credit card purchase. He restored the business viability. I agree 30% is too high.

One of the smartest rappers ever. Arrested Development is one of the few hip-hop acts I get anything intellectual out of.

Based on what arrested development was speaking on In the 90s I'm definitely tuned in to hear what he has to say 💯

That's deep

Speech always been a General. If you don't truly listen to his music,you haven't Arrested the Development. No pun intended.

Facts. I was literally telling my wife this a few weeks ago.

Well stated strictly the honest truth. This "aquarians age" is showing the world how easy and lazy we have become. Such a rip off of your hard work.

📡Absolutely 📡💯 Real talk👊🏿

💯 💯 💯 Historical Truth

Great interview.

Hip-Hop artist are getting screwed. Hip-Hop needs a UNION.

As far as the marketing of music in today's climate is concerned, I could care less about it. NOTHING can compare to the experience of listening to a full body of work from top to bottom on traditional format. You gain more appreciation for it. Digital as opposed to physical is like a McD's lunch as opposed to a Thanksgiving feast.

Truth, thats why music sounds so flat now. Music used to be so well rounded......

thats why i understand andre 3000. people credit his work with Outkast as his greatest work, but in his mind, he likes it..but he probably thinks rap in itself is a hard genre to be a true artist in. outkast did a good job at the end of their career not following trends, but in the beginning they rapped about hustling on the block, driving in cadillacs, and the lifestyle of a down south gangster. rap is such a tricky genre because the fans aren't really interested in true artistry. they're not interested in rap for artistry. they are interested in rap because it's just what they're supposed to be into. it's moreso a lifestyle trend like the latest jordans or fashion style. that's the downside to rap. 95% of the fanbase doesn't even appreciate it as real art--an artist has about a 1-2 year window to get all he/she can get from rap before their career turns to dirt, people don't seek or search for artists that they like; they are content getting their artists handed to them by algorithms from youtube and what other people like at the time. rap is an artform to me, but unfortunately, it's a genre that doesn't appreciate true artistry..only about 10% of the fanbase look at it like art. its so trendy and based on the current moment in time that an album from 10 years ago is ancient, whereas in rock music, they have classic rock radio stations that have been on the air since the 1980s. .plus rap culture doesn't even try to teach the new young fans about the past. they made tv shows about the wu-tang, but most young people under 25 didnt even listen to wu-tang. they just watched the show because it was similar to BMF and was about crime. it's a standard and a requirement for younger people to learn the classics in jazz, rock, country, etc..they even cover their songs and re-create their songs..but in rap, we just don't look at it as art. it's just a consumer product because all the rappers really talk about is consumerism, so the energy doesn't attract artistry. in the 90's, rappers were talking about heavy topics..like Fat Joe's 1998 album Don Cartegena had a song called "The Hidden Hand' all about how Terror Squad fell victim to committing crime against their own race, how they became drug dealers and got mind-tricked into the criminal lifestyle, how lack of self-esteem made them turn to the streets, etc...but that stuff doesn't get praised as art, even though it is. That's what makes rap art. It allows the ugliness of the streets to be transformed into poetry...but most fans just don't respect the genre like that.

We’ve talked and talked and talked when are we gonna actually change this shit

Great topic and convo. What would Mr. Wendal say about all this? Funny, I just heard Bill Burr the comedian talk about ( how movies and his own shows, even after super success, are cheapened and he's powerless to Netflix because the nature of streaming). It's sad but if wasn't Steve Jobs, or Napster, or Spotify, or whatever consumer and capital based model, then a substitute or some new corporate entity would arise in a hyper competitive market. There's no real solution to tech folks taking money from musicians and artists ( or cheapening the arts industry and the entire social world of entire generations as a whole) unless some kind of regulations are put in place...and in the good ole USA, the land of free markets, nothing like this seems to ever be a possibility, especially since no one seems to really be complaining at all ( except artists, but they're not loud enough , and if they are, are labeled as Luddites) with an overstimulated and zombified consumer audience used to and now demanding all content be free.

I'm an old head like Speech but I disagree on one thing. How media is delivered has no bearing on its quality. If people wanted physical media then they would buy it. If demand is there they'll sell it. Look, even Taylor Swift had her 1989 CD in Target stores. I don't know what numbers that CD sold, but there had to be a demand there. Even before Jobs, the writing was on the wall. There was napster, Bit Torrent etc. These where not legal services, but someone would come along and make a legal service. Also newspapers are gone, Movies on discs are dead. Unfortunately music has always been a commodity and bigbusiness did what big business will always do and find a way to increase economies of scale to maximize profits. Good or bad that has always been the case.

30% is a lot but its better than the 0% offered by Napster, Limewire, Sharebear, Kaazaa. And you couldnt opt out or pull your catalogue. It's also better than Spotifys 30% which isnt as good a 30% as itunes

masta ace was rubbing close w these statements as well.. speech is right tho

No he didn’t. If anything, he tried to keep artist paid with the iTunes Store. Streaming devalued the art.

I agree with unfair comparisons of physical only sales vs bs streaming. Im pretty sure if Drake released a physical release only album, that s8&& would flop. Because most of his fans have been consuming his music through streams exclusively. But I disagree with Apple crushing the music industry. Too much supply of music artists and songs are wtf crushed the music industry. I cant imagine going to Tower Records or Sam Goody and not being able to browse Cds because everybody and their mama has a song and album tf out. The same s&*&& is happening to podcasting. Anytime there is an overabundance of supply of anything, demand will decrease, rapidly.

I think you can blame it on mp3 and Napster but Jobs made a way to make money off of previously free mp3’s and CD’s were way overpriced.

Steve Jobs and RU-vid destroyed the music industry, which is a good thing considering how wicked that industry is behind the scenes.

just get a cd player 😐

Just self promote make your own website and sell your own merch

I'm sorry, but Drake corny af. Lol. This is corny era my boy

I kind of disagree with this. Because Prince spearheaded the MP3 movement. People are just lazy. There not the fault of the music industry. That’s the artists fast.

Cry me a river; eventually everything is streamlined...