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Re:Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service by seanmcdirmid on Monday March 30, 2015 @08:57PM (#9293713)
When artists make it big, don't they usually start their own labels anyways? We also have rich artists very active in the music industry, providing capital and such...I mean, it is the industry they known and succeeded in!

This is sort of like a programmer who made it big in an IPO becoming a venture capitalist for software tech companies: I'm sure that has happened before.

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Re:Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service by sehr on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:13PM (#9293777)
Yup.

I can't speak for the others, but both Jay Z & Kanye are very heavy into promoting new artists.

Jay essentially created two of the men standing up there (J Cole & Kanye), and Kanye has been instrumental in pushing Big Sean, Kid Cudi, Pusha T, and Chief Keef among others into the limelight.

They, along with birdman & lil wayne are the biggest promoters of new artists in the rap game.

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