<a href="/profile/JoeBudden" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Joe Budden</a> thinks <a href="/profile/KanyeWest" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Kanye West</a>&#8217;s current album rollout for Donda 2 is &#8220;genius&#8221; but he and his podcast&#8217;s co-hosts aren&#8217;t interested in partaking in the album&#8217;s release on Stem Player, with Budden saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re stealing this music.&#8221;
Discussing the <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kanye-west-seemingly-warns-kim-kardashian-and-pete-davidson-on-new-donda-2-song-news.148154.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">album&#8217;s rollout</a> on a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Budden explained why the Stem Player is a great idea and <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kanye-west-says-stem-player-earned-more-first-day-revenue-than-any-album-on-streaming-services-prior-news.148038.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">will be a successful venture for Ye</a>, but he and his friends will not be spending $200 to procure one.
&#8220;Kanye, we stealing that from right out of there,&#8221; said Budden about the Stem Player, on which <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kanye-west-releases-4-new-songs-from-donda-2-featuring-migos-travis-scott-future-and-baby-keem-news.148178.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">four new Donda 2 songs released exclusively on Wednesday</a>. &#8220;Kanye, Justin LaBoy, Antonio Brown, all of y&#8217;all&#8230; we&#8217;re stealing this music. I wanna just call a spade a spade. It&#8217;s a great idea and it is exactly what should be done but your business people have to account for me, the n***a that&#8217;s gone steal it.&#8221;
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Ice went on to argue that <a href="/tags/yeezy" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Yeezy</a>&#8217;s team likely didn&#8217;t consider the people who planned on bootlegging the album because this venture will make Ye more money than he would have made on streaming when it&#8217;s all said and done. They went on to compare this situation to <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nipsey-hussle-credits-the-s100-mixtape-for-his-romance-with-lauren-london-news.72683.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">when Nipsey Hussle was selling his mixtape for $100</a> before Budden suggested that we will be seeing a lot more of this in the coming years.
&#8220;This is the future of music,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m talking about the future of music doing this&#8211; the big artists doing this. In the future, not now, but somewhere down the line, more big artists like this will do this. We&#8217;re not gonna keep having the &#8216;Hey, the streaming sites don&#8217;t pay me&#8217; conversation. At some point, the n***as with some money is gonna get up and do something. More people will think to do this and then the music industry maybe has a problem on their hands.&#8221;
What do you think about Joe Budden&#8217;s assessment of Ye&#8217;s new Stem Player? Do you plan on buying one to listen to Donda 2? Watch the beginning of the episode below. 
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