On Friday, we all recall that during Drake’s TIDAL streaming performance at Lil Wayne’s Weezyana Fest performance, Tidal posted a black screen message accusing Apple of blocking the airing of that performance. However, Drake’s camp is denying those allegations.
According to BuzzFeed, Future The Prince has denied that Apple has anything to do with the black out of Drake’s performance. According to him, it was his team’s call and they did so because of lack of clarity between the two parties.
“The decision to not have Drake participate in the Tidal steam has nothing to do with Apple or Drake’s deal. Point blank, 100%. I made a business decision. Apple doesn’t have the power to stop us from being part of a live stream. The only people that have the power to do that are Cash Money and Universal, and they’re our partners.
I don’t understand. If you’re going to say something about the situation publicly, you should tell the truth. They saw the opportunity to take a situation and spin it in their favor as a publicity stunt.
We wanted to make sure the stream represented us in the right way, and we didn’t have much insight into what they were doing. Aesthetics and quality are important to us and we didn’t have any control over that or time to investigate it. We were just there to participate in the benefit.”
In response, a spokesperson for Tidal provided the following comment:
We have all the email receipts and written correspondence that took place with said, blocked performance. That being said we choose to keep it classy.
Great show to all the performers
Great performance Wayne.
God Bless New Orleans. 10 years stronger.
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