Jay Z Slams Google, YouTube, Spotify & Police In Defense Of His Streaming App 'Tidal'

Hip hop mogul and founding father, Jay Z has launched into a blistering counter attack of those who dare to speak against his new streaming service - Tidal. He was performing at a private show at Terminal 5 in New York for Tidal subscribers when he unleashed a verbal tirade with his usual rap lyrics. He claimed he was being depicted as 'the bad guy' because he's going against the grain, before turning on Google and YouTube for underpaying artists, claiming they 'pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get'. Below is his lyrics in full;

JAY Z'S FREESTYLE LYRICS IN FULL 
So I’m the bad guy now I hear, because I don’t go with the flow / Don’t ever go with the flow, be the flow. And I don’t need no middle man to talk to my n***as / I understand if you don’t understand, I figure I’m Jigga / That’s where we differ. I take what’s mine, you accept what they they give you, I get you

I don’t take no checks, I take my respect / Pharrell even told me go with the safest bet
Jimmy Iovine offered a safety net / Google dangled around a crazy cheque / I feel like Youtube is the biggest culprit / Them n***as pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get.

You know n***as die for equal pay right? / You know when I work I ain't your slave right?
You know I ain't shucking and jiving and high fiving / You know this ain't back in the days right?
But I can't tell how the way they killed Freddie Gray right / Shot down Mike Brown, how they did Tray right?

Let them continue choking n***as / We gonna turn style, I ain't your token nigga. You know I came in this game independent right? / Tidal, my own label, same difference. Oh, n***as are skeptical 'cause they own shit / You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich / Phil Knight worth trillions you still bought those kicks / Spotify is 9 billion they ain't say sh*t.

Lucy you got some Explaining to do / The only one they hating on look the same as you / I know they trying to bamboozle you / Spending millions on media trying to confuse you
I had to talk to myself, Hov you used to it / It's politics as usual

WHAT IS TIDAL? 
The membership-based service - similar to Spotify - offers music and exclusive video content that users can stream on computers, tablets and smartphones or listen to offline. Tidal currently has more than 25 million songs and 75,000 music videos in its library.

Tidal is billed as the first artist-owned platform for music and video and the service aims to compete directly with Spotify and Apple's music service, headed by Dr Dre. Users can pay either $9.95 a month for a standard streaming service or $19.99 for high quality streaming in the US. The same tiers cost £9.99 and £19.99 in the UK.

Unlike rival Spotify, the service doesn't have a free tier - meaning the musicians stand to make more money from it, but this also means it doesn't play adverts. Tidal streams at 1,411 kilobytes per second - above the 320 for subscribers of Spotify.