{"id":482800,"date":"2019-02-27T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=801064"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:08:21","slug":"de-la-souls-catalog-set-to-hit-streaming-services-except-tidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/de-la-souls-catalog-set-to-hit-streaming-services-except-tidal\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Soul\u2019s Catalog Set to Hit Streaming Services \u2014 Except Tidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8509879oW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The catalog of rap legends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/de-la-soul\/\" id=\"auto-tag_de-la-soul\" data-tag=\"de-la-soul\">De La Soul<\/a> is set to hit streaming services after decades absent from any digital marketplace. The release will conclude a long-running dispute between De La and their label, Tommy Boy Records, and the attending legal complications that kept their fans from accessing their music outside of physical purchases or downloading (for free) directly from De La Soul\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>While the development is an exciting one for fans of the trio, it comes with its own dose of controversy. According to Instagram posts from the group, they do not feel the contract that\u2019s bringing classic albums like <em>3 Feet High and Rising\u00a0<\/em>to streaming platforms is a fair one. \u201cYour purchases will roughly go 90% to Tommy Boy, 10% De La,\u201d the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuWvRLMl6AM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">wrote to their fans<\/a>. \u201cWe are not happy releasing our catalog under such unbalanced, unfair terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, while services like Spotify and Apple Music are ostensibly set to begin streaming the classic catalog, one service is planning to stand down. \u201cIt\u2019s not going up on Tidal,\u201d Maseo tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. The omission, the group says, is in solidarity over the group\u2019s contract disputes. <span class=\"s1\">\u201cJay-Z reached out,\u201d says Maseo. \u201cHe\u2019s not willing to support this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the group, Tidal owner Jay-Z reached out personally with his support \u2014 and the promise to keep the catalog off the streaming service he owns. \u201c[Tidal] supports the artist,\u201d says Trugoy. \u201cThat\u2019s just the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group is appreciative of the gesture. \u201cT<span class=\"s1\">hat\u2019s a great thing to know that people recognize the nonsense and they recognize and empathize with the artists,\u201d says Trugoy.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAt the end of the day, you feel like that\u2019s why your peers are reaching out to you, in support of you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A source close to the situation confirmed that the service will not be making the group\u2019s music available for streaming. A rep for Jay-Z did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/de-la-soul-catalog-streaming-services-tidal-801064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The catalog of rap legends De La Soul is set to hit streaming services after decades absent from any digital marketplace. The release will conclude a long-running dispute between De La and their label, Tommy Boy Records, and the attending legal complications that kept their fans from accessing their music outside of physical purchases or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:59:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}