At a time when some are boycotting Spotify, he simply preferred to bypass it. Tuesday, Kanye West revealed Donda 2, eleventh album accessible for download… only on the player that the rapper created himself: the Stem Player, a kind of small connected pebble animated by colored lights, allowing its owner to listen to but also to dissect the titles into separate tracks , to be remixed at will – vocals, percussion, bass. Price: 200 dollars, postage excluded, operation which would have already brought in more than 2 million to the interested party. A profitable business and a finger of honor assumed to the streaming giants, as explained by Kanye West, officially renamed Ye last October. “Today artists only get 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. To take control and build our own.”
