Meghan Thee Stallion’s producer, LilJuMadeDaBeat, has lashed out at the music streaming platform, Spotify, for the reward system they have in place for artists.
The rapper and producer have teamed up to make smash hits like “Body,” “Big Ole Freak” and “Thot Sh*t” among others. Megan was listed as being among the most streamed female rappers on Spotify. Fans were thrilled, but not the rapper’s producer, and he took to social media to criticize Spotify’s practices.
LilJuMadeDaBeat voiced his frustration with the streaming platform and urged fans to listen to Megan Thee Stallion’s music on other platforms, due to the sharp difference in terms of how much the artists get paid. “I hate that y’all actually use Spotify instead of literally ANY other streaming service,” he wrote. “They pay us the least.”
The producer isn’t the first to criticize Spotify practices; Noname previously urged fans to hold the platform accountable for how little it pays artists.
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Then again, Drake also voiced his opinion about Spotify’s conduct and plans to file a lawsuit against Spotify for using “schemes” to boost Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” numbers.
Megan Thee Stallion and LilJuMadeDaBeat have been involved in similar confusion regarding Spotify numbers. The former was accused of buying 30 million streams to boost the numbers for her self-titled album.
The No Jumper artist claimed that the same number of streams were removed from her album when it was time to assess sales in the first week, and this led to her album being repositioned on the charts. Many fans came to Megan’s defense, however, claiming that the bots that made up the additional streams were out of her control.
Megan Thee Stallion and LilJuMadeDaBeat have also had to contend with a lawsuit from Plies. The veteran rapper accused them of sampling his song “Me & My Goons” without giving proper credit. LilJuMadeDaBeat responded to the lawsuit via social media, saying that the Megan Thee Stallion song “Wanna Be” actually sampled another song that was properly credited.
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