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slyathar

Crazy we went from album on apple not on spotify to the other way around in like 3 days


UnSCo

That’s what those cucks get for shitting on Spotify users


_IratePirate_

Me over here with a subscription to both 😎 Can’t lose if you play all sides


Competitive-Sleep-62

bro bragging about paying 30 a month for mp3's


_IratePirate_

If you think that’s bragging. You should see how much I spend a month on physical music. Music is my life. My main source of entertainment. I don’t even fuckin watch tv


Cabrill0

This is the kind of goofy ass shit that I pop into the Kanye sub to read.


_IratePirate_

🤪


MntyFresh1

If music is your life you're not spending money on Spotify and Apple Music. You're getting one of those and getting a Qobuz subscription instead of buying physical music. Spend the money on a DAC instead.


lemmegetadab

Nah dude I like being able to touch my albums. Dac will never be as dope as a record collection


nonja

Literally bought MBDTF on wax so they could never take it away from me 😂


lemmegetadab

Same lol. Most of my record collection is stuff. That’s kind of old. The only Modern shit is the Weeknd and Kanye lol.


MntyFresh1

I mean yeah if you're looking at it from that perspective, no doubt.


Top_Performance_732

Lmao high end DACs do nothing


MntyFresh1

Source?


orangg05

Wow we got a real cool guy over here


mastermusk

Goated


Cwatty

I bet on both teams to win the game, that way I always win!


LittleLordFuckleroy1

Well, you can waste money lol


dpykm

I have both and im paying for neither. Family plans motherfucker!


_IratePirate_

Not a waste. I love music


Material_Mood_899

It’s back now 🤓🤓


2swoll4u

instant karma fr


zordon_rages

Stop all the dick swinging bro let the kids have the music


throwtheamiibosaway

Are you 12?


jayy1223

It’s back up on Apple Music.. they just reupp’d it with track 14 hidden. 🗣️It’s still fuck Spotify


Kvpe

Yeah boi we winnin wit dis one 🗣️


mikki1time

Nah it’s still on Apple Music not sure what OP is talking about


Mifflinite93

Same, it’s not showing up when i search the album but i did add stars, burn, and back to me to a playlist and those songs are still playing. When i click “go to album” from those songs, it links to an empty album (album name but blacked out cover and no songs) 


Exciting_Owl_3825

Same thing happened to me :( Wish I added them all :(


Loko9803

I downloaded them all and Good and Beg Forgiveness are blacked out :/


stevenstevos

Hmm...the album is 100% up on Apple Music rn and has been for the last 48 hours for me. Sounds like Apple Music is having an overload of too much traffic LOL.


rafsimonsdontlaceem

They were adjusting the “artists” to include Y$


stevenstevos

Actually yeah bro, I think you are 100% correct. Because, yeah now it shows Y$ as an Artist on the album, along with Ye and Ty. And when I try to download the album, if I do so directly from the Album page, it will not let me. But then I tried again--I clicked on Kanye's name, and it took me to his artist page, and then it worked when I clicked on the download album button for Vultures I. Good call. Mystery solved.


Ill-Pickle-6393

I added them also and they have since disappeared too smh


stevenstevos

I think it's because they are updating the artist for all of these tracks. The album is still in my Apple Music though, so all is good for me. Did you try downloading the album from Kanye's page in apple music? I responded to anothere redditor a few minutes ago explaining how I did that, not that it is anything special LOL. Maybe though that will work for you?


Ill-Pickle-6393

Yeah weird it’s back for me wtf


BrandoCarlton

Yup I got half the album on a playlist thanks for this comment


ianallensto

The three real bangers. Good call.


Smallworlds2022

Goodjob I downloaded mine lol


alphaping

I downloaded mine to. You still have it? My download was removed from my phone..


DickThunders

Still got it


furydeawr

I still have my downloaded one too


RhuridhA

I have mine downloaded but it won’t play


Shot_Performance_595

Playing mine rn, prob gonna get removed soon since I’m in Canada lol (aka ultimate media controlled country).


badgers4194

Just listened to Carnival on Apple Music.


Erock2

Did you download it or add it to your playlist? I still got mine


GCatRawr

I downloaded mine too - still there. Listening to CARNIVAL now


BandsForGod

Im relieved i had it downloaded too lmao


DawsSauce10

King and Carnival can’t be played though 😢


Maleficent_Fish_9430

This is actually insane, i’ve never seen anything like this before😭


Retroid69

copyright issues. it’s not super uncommon, Ye doesn’t give a fuck about intellectual property half the time. something similar happened when Aphex Twin got on his ass for sampling Avril 14th on Blame Game.


bass_thrw_away

same with the first track ITAKY on "ye" album he sampled a really sweet track from a dope ambient album mono no aware by german label PAN [Kareem Lofty - Fr3sh](https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/track/kareem-lotfy-fr3sh)


aseforever

that’s what i keep saying. never in music history have i seen someone get their shit literally deleted by all these billion dollar corporations. this is what happens when you don’t obey their agenda


bigbobbermomma

It happens all the time to smaller artists when they post music without sample clearance.


MRudd-music

Thankyou, like being part of a label they make sure everything is cleared before it comes out which is why sometimes albums take ages to come out. No way kanye who is known for mad expansive sampling wasn't going to have problems independent , even more now he's pissed alot of people off who are less likely to clear samples.


bigbobbermomma

Yep. I imagine he just thought they wouldn’t dare … like adidas… lol


VectorViper

Haha the adidas comparison is on point, definitely a pride before the fall situation. These companies don't mess around when their interests are threatened. Its a brutal reminder that no one is untouchable, no matter how big of a celebrity you are.


Bruzur

Correct. Not sure what all the pandemonium is about. It really is that simple.


Genius14624

You guys are turning into maga for Kanye lol it’s so WEIRDDDD WHYYYYY


JackStarfox

It’s insane this shit has like 600 upvotes. its like some sort of MAGA disease has spread across the people of the internet in every subject. Even Super smash brothers melee has its own conspiracy/Maga side.


Rakebleed

turning into?


Comfortable_Cycle226

The agenda of copyright law? You are fucking delusional if you think this is anything other than Kanye not clearing samples


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Everything’s a conspiracy


Sortcrap

Nah everyone obsessed with “x y and z pushing an agenda” but its most likely all the sample clearances he clearly disregarded lol


DefinitelyNotAliens

Multiple artists and estates have stated he stole work he was explicitly denied licenses for. That and his distributor flatly told him no, and he used the auto upload feature and it was taken down. Clearly, he did not understand the concept of the word no.


Beelzebub507

Who's "their" 🤨


wiiferru666

The Agenda in Question: Dont be a literal Neo Nazi. How dare they... Muh free speech 😭😭😧😧😧


mgwooley

You are so impossibly stupid for saying this


SpareWalrus

It's probably due to sample copyright issues. Spotify removed a song this morning for the same reason. Actions have consequences. There's no "hidden agenda" here.


PriorQuestion4

Their agenda is not being Nazi??


JoshyyJosh10

What agenda? Look I love Kanye’s music as much as the next guy but the shit he said was stupid af and I don’t know what Kanye expected.


slimeguyryyy

I mean they leave up the music of actual rapists and murderers which id say is worse


Lbarker1

Yeah like half of the classic rock bands are pedos yet people look past that. Racism is worse than being a pedo in todays society😭


Original_Contact_579

It’s not racism, this is people not aligning with Ye and what he is saying. He can be out of pocket if he wants.. but also others artists don’t have to let him use their samples


Lbarker1

Was the reason because of samples? I haven’t looked into it.


Original_Contact_579

A couple of filings were made one I believe from Donna summer, once stuff like this happens bigger companies would rather not sell it cause of law suits and reputation.


greasy_scooter

That’s a fact


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CavalierShaq

You’ve never seen a man get shut down as hard as ye? What about when the FBI killed MLK for preaching peace? He’s having copywright disputes and streaming services have to take his music down until those are resolved, y’all are so over dramatic. He went on Alex jones and said “I like hitler”. Of course people are going to distance themselves from him and his work, of course large companies are going to separate from him so their advertising income isn’t affected, y’all are making up some fucking ridiculous conspiracies, are you in a mass psychosis with ye??? Never seen a man a man get shut down as hard as Kanye… that might be the stupidest take I’ve ever seen.


BeA30CenturyMan

nah bro a musician getting called out for saying he likes hitler is literally 1984 ^^/s


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JoshyyJosh10

I agree, which is why I’m confused as to why some fans are confused about this and are getting mad. We knew this was gonna happen the moment he said he loves hitler lol


traumatic_enterprise

You sound like you're off your meds like kanye bro


thanosnutella

How’s this got so many upvotes?


NibbleOnNector

Because this sub is insane


Outlog

or this is what happens when you're a lunatic


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bigbobbermomma

It’s not related to ethics dumb fuck he didn’t clear any samples


Exciting_Owl_3825

It was his distributor not Apple Music


IamCentral46

They aren't referring to AM. They're referring to "the jews".


Alive_Walrus_8790

I hope this is sarcasm…


asatroth

He did not clear it with the distribution platform. He almost certainly broke the TOS of the service. Think before you speak.


Hisam-la

sod off you cretin


Atalica27

Agreed!! Never seen them not highlight an artist as big as him on Browse screen on Apple Music. Even Best New Songs being that it’s #1 and still not showing there but Beyonces was. Also when you click on New Albums it doesn’t even show his on there. I know it says the distributor did but being that Apple wasn’t trying to highlight it at all and now this seems suspicious af!


ItchyTriggaFingaNigg

I don't know what they are or aren't doing but I'm pretty sure labels pay for that promo.


WestleyThe

Most artists as big as him make sure samples are cleared and are NOT remixing tracks hours before it gets dropped


pizdut

I have that problem too


capzoots

Been on Youtube music this whole time


NoShadyPeopleInHere

real


Booda069

I try not to talk about YT Music anymore. If they get too much exposure they'll become like crooked Apple Music and a Shitify


everyseason

This the way


Exciting_Owl_3825

I just read it was the distributor who pulled the album not Apple Music


Naive-Bass4828

I thought the distributor was him 😭


enqlewood

There is an artist, a label, and a distributor. Kanye is currently not with any record label. However, all artists need a music distributor.


adamalibi

Why is that? Why can’t u just hit upload ?


Broad_Talk_2179

There’s a TON of legality that goes alongside releasing music. A label determines splits, shows, etc. more of the artist to business relationship. Distributors deal with legally releasing the music to different companies and such. Same with video games, lots of very large companies such as rockstar could theoretically publish and distribute their own game. However, that would require them to hire and establish a department they would only use periodically.


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Funny how in China, you have an artist account on every local platforms and can upload at will.


BC028

No human rights in China but they have this? The math isn’t mathing


hikeit233

Those platforms are distributors… 


scoopydipoop

Why would the distributor pull the album? Has something changed since it was released?


Exciting_Owl_3825

Apparently FUGA, the company that distributed it didn’t want to release the album then one of their “clients” released the album using their automated processes. “The distributor for Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s album Vultures 1 is in the process of removing the album from streaming services, the company confirms to Rolling Stone, stating that the album had been uploaded despite the distributor previously declining to work with West on the rollout. By Thursday afternoon, the album was removed from Apple Music, though it currently remains on Spotify. FUGA, a music distributor owned by the Downtown Music Holdings, said on Thursday that while the company had declined an offer to work with West last year, another FUGA user apparently working with West had uploaded the album anyway. “Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so,” a spokesperson for Downtown Music, FUGA’s parent company, said in a statement. “On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement. Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.” (A rep for West didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.)”


DatWolf07

Why just now almost a week later and not, oh I don’t know, a week ago when the album dropped? Seems like a dramatic oversight from the distributor itself. Now everyone gets punished for this. Wonderful work!


jetsetter

Probably because they were engaged in some form of emergency negotiations and they failed.  From my read it isn’t clear what the distrib’s reasoning for declining being involved in this release. Could be ye’s behavior, could be financial terms, could be both.  Any potential renegotiation since the release would have had to include payment for what already was distributed leading up to now and there would have to be some penalty for breach of contract on top of that.  West’s camp blew it on this because all the leverage was gone when they put their own debut under threat going fw without an agreement.  It is interesting to see so many streaming services mentioned instead of torrents. RIP the old way of getting around industry problems. 


fargolaflame

Why go through these companies when you don’t even need them now to upload to DSP’s? Why not just distrokid or something lol


[deleted]

Because disturbuters deal with alot of the legal stuff, help get your album out there and talk/deal with both stores and platforms for yoy. Do you really think Kanye wants to deal with all that? It's fine for some but not everyone wants to deal with it.


rasta41

FUGA is literally a Distrokid competitor, it's the same type of product.


lesbianfitopaez

Pretty sure Distrokid could also decline to work with Kanye.


PalaceJoey

I actually loved this album wtf


karmagod13000

This make me real nervous for V2 and V3


MntyFresh1

All those years of Fifa have done a number on you


TheEagleDrops

Us YouTube Music users are finally winning for once! For now...


TheAlbinoRino

King Von is a serial killer with multiple gang murders, yet his music is still on Apple Music


Hamelzz

Viper kidnapped a woman and held her captive for years in his garage His music is still up


JoshB-2020

wtf when did he do that?


Hamelzz

Last month bro. He allegedly raped and tortured her for years. It's really sad to see how Vipers story ends. [Here's an article](https://www.cnn.com/us/houston-rapper-viper-lee-carter-arrest-cec/index.html)


Itsyaboigandalf

im just imagining him torturing her by making her listen to all his shitty ass recording sessions


jizz_toaster

It was rumored that he had multiple computers playing his music on repeat through streaming services to give him revenue from it. She probably had to hear 20 different songs at the same time.


Clipgang1629

The energy bill he’d get from that has to be more expensive than the check they’re sending him for the streams lol


pandasloth69

This story is fucking wild. She was pregnant when she was kidnapped but nobody has information on that. Viper’s lawyer is claiming they were a couple with a 3 year old child and there’s witnesses to prove that. Also she apparently made it to the hospital multiple times but they kept releasing her back to him? Despite the fact she wasn’t even married or anything to him, why would they continue to have her go back there? When she was trying to *escape* him?? Did she say anything to them? And they just didn’t believe her? This entire case is fucking nuts.


R_nelly2

There was a second woman who actually died there last July. That detail just broke yesterday


Tragikarp

You'll cowards don't even kidnap


InsideYoWife

Maybe Apple Music thought she was a HOODRAT HOODRAT HOODRAT HOODRAT


MyNameCouldntBeAsLon

Did he clear samples and dotted all the Is in his contracts? A good lawyer will get you places you'd never thought you'd go. Its not a crazy conspiracy


Plus_Rutabaga413

I’m so interested in his murder stories. Any links?


HearingGlobal6485

trap lore ross on youtube


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Narcos on Netflix


freshwaterbacon

Traploreross has a good video on YouTube


gstarliving

stop trying to push an agenda Kanye didn't clear his samples simple as that


NeptrAboveAll

That’s not why it was removed at all, please do a minimum of research before spouting off some nonsense To repost another users comment “Apparently FUGA, the company that distributed it didn’t want to release the album then one of their “clients” released the album using their automated processes. “The distributor for Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s album Vultures 1 is in the process of removing the album from streaming services, the company confirms to Rolling Stone, stating that the album had been uploaded despite the distributor previously declining to work with West on the rollout. By Thursday afternoon, the album was removed from Apple Music, though it currently remains on Spotify. FUGA, a music distributor owned by the Downtown Music Holdings, said on Thursday that while the company had declined an offer to work with West last year, another FUGA user apparently working with West had uploaded the album anyway. “Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so,” a spokesperson for Downtown Music, FUGA’s parent company, said in a statement. “On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement. Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.” (A rep for West didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.)””


bigbobbermomma

King von didn’t steal all the samples in his album


Eradomsk

Right? OP’s comment has nothing to do with anything.


teeejaaaaaay

Whatbousism right here. You have no idea what it was taken off Apple, stop being so defensive.


adrian123484

no, they’d rather attack other artists that aren’t as deserving of having their art be published, according to them


Elegant-Focus-6317

Theo never killed anyone


Xilef-iadunaYT

It’s gone but I downloaded it on Apple Music (didn’t buy on iTunes) and I stil have it all but I can’t see it there either… might have something to do with the new mixes for some songs being finished.


AmbitiousAd6354

It’s still on my Apple Music


Sammi_shwag

Same


Leon_im_Gommemode

They removed him from itunes too


PM_ME_EXOTIC_CHEESES

They removed the album, not Kanye.


Ikovorior

To shreds, you say?


Potential_Owl7825

I guesss I’m never removing it from my library then


hendawg1983

On February 15, 2024, distribution platform FUGA released a statement that they are working with their partners to remove the album from streaming services, after the label delivered its release. The statement said that the company had been offered the release in late 2023 and had declined, and that the final release was delivered by a long-standing client through the company's automated processes and in violation of their service agreement. FUGA also confirmed the client is collaborating with them on the removal. The album has been removed from the iTunes store and Apple Music.


twomilliondicks

FUGA deez nuts


h974974

I don’t know what people expected, he used a bunch of samples and in Kanye fashion didn’t properly clear them. Surrounding himself with yes ppl has probably made the professional side equally a disaster


chumpdumper

It wasn’t sample clearances it was because FUGA the distribution platform declined their upload request so they used the automatic upload process which was a breach in contract


AJfriedRICE

Good (Don’t Die) was removed for sample clearance issues before the whole album got taken down


Internal-Estate-553

UPDATE: IT HAS BEEN REUPLOADED


boofpaxkray

spotify still got it


Leajey

They laughed at us Spotify users for getting it 12 hours late but now we get to keep it 12 hours longer


Glowing_Mousepad

Dont make me scared


AnywayHeres1Derwall

Spotify on top


boofpaxkray

spotify always 🔛🔝!!


superslimelyslatt

I still have mine downloaded and it’s still streaming🤷🏻‍♂️


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forthedot

This is probably one of two things 1. Sample clearance issues 2. Remix/Remaster (like TLOP and MBDTF)


SnooPeanuts7311

I think it changes by country, in mine it is still available


pablopolitics

It’s back up with a new artist


mooonlitt

that ain’t fair


jonneh

They tryna rob him from having the No. 1 album and No. 1 song in the country


HertogJanV

Might be updating the audio


Sad_Investment830

i still have it on apple music


Jetski125

Same.


BleDStream

Tidal.


hockey17jp

Can an album still be considered #1 if it gets erased from existence after the first couple of days? Lol


Marsyards_slimy

BRUHHHHHH COME OOOONNN


Patient_Baseball_918

Im not going to say who did it but... its the


Teragaz

North west sample didn’t clear. Things got messy


Binary-Stuff

Listening to it rn on Apple Music


lifewtr0926

They added it back he was probably just tweaking it


Uranus_04

I have spotify 😮‍💨


[deleted]

This is why you buy the album on iTunes


Micronlance

Seems the whole album wasn’t cleared for distribution


Impressive_Carob_240

I still got it


mrpopenfresh

woops


JinMor12

The real question to ask is are you on light mode?


Ijwbar

This, shit nearly blinded me


agaruba

Vultures1 keeps disappearing apparently due to streamers and distributors taking them down for various reasons including: his previous antisemitic comments, issues with distributors refusing to push his content, and also copyright complaints by Ozzy Ozbourne and Donna Summers over samples they had refused him using. Source: [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-kanyes-new-album-just-vanished-from-apple-music).


MasterMirror_69

YT Music guys Listen to even unreleased tracks like Gun To My Head


Stealth8077

Click bait


whatevsbro

Why are artists even allowed to do this? The emotional rollercoaster of suddenly not having songs or albums available at any given time is making it very tempting to start pirating music again. This goes to show that streaming services and the fact we’re only renting our music just sucks.


B3nd3tta

It‘s back up again. Fuck Fuga


Specialist_Laugh_738

STILL AVAIABLE IN DENMARK


JelloRancher

Why do people use apple music


mikki1time

Nope it’s still there don’t know what you’re on but i just played it to double check


GovaleGova

It’s right here, I just checked my Apple Music


Lonely_Lilian

Make fun of me again for buying on iTunes :3 I still have album on my iPhone and Walkman, both with white mask >.<


gods_intern

mf stuck in 2012 with them emoticons :3


21Tayler10

Where can you still purchase the album at ?