ScHoolboy Q is celebrating the long-awaited arrival of his new album Blue Lips, but the rollout hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing.
In a tweet on Friday (March 1) hours after its release, the Top Dawg Entertainment rapper called out Spotify, as well as his label Interscope Records, over an issue with his project on the streaming service.
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“Wait.. I can’t even play my own sHit [palm on face emoji],” he wrote. “Umm @Spotify @Interscope I know I’m not the only 1.. only rappers get did like this smH.”
Q’s post included a screenshot of him trying to play Blue Lips on Spotify but only two songs — “THank God 4 Me” and the previously released single “Yeern 101” — were available.
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The L.A. native later deleted his tweet, but it appears he wasn’t the only one encountering the glitch. When another fan raised the issue with him, he replied: “Sumbody HELP.”
Spotify has yet to comment on the matter. As of this writing, Blue Lips is available to stream in full on the platform, so it’s unclear if the bug has been resolved or is still affecting certain users.
Of course, ScHoolboy Q isn’t the first rapper to run into issues with streaming services in 2024.
Shortly after its release last month, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 was removed from streaming services entirely following a number of complaints.
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The duo’s initial distributor, FUGA, claimed that the album had been wrongfully “delivered through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement.”
The project was reinstated soon after when Ye and Ty reached a new distribution agreement with a different company.
However, fans are still without the song “Good (Don’t Die)” after it was pulled from DSPs over a dispute regarding its sample of Donna Summer’s 1977 disco hit “I Feel Love.”
The late singer’s estate accused the pair of borrowing from the song without permission and has since filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against them.
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Blue Lips, meanwhile, has arrived to much fanfare and marks ScHoolboy Q’s first album in five years following 2019’s CrasH Talk.
The 18-track offering boasts appearances from the likes of Freddie Gibbs, Ab-Soul and Rico Nasty, as well as production from The Alchemist, Cardo and DJ Khalil, among others.
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Gibbs’ guest verse on “oHio” has already made waves thanks to some choice words aimed at the Indiana native’s long-running rival Akademiks.
On the three-part song, he takes a shot at the media personality by rapping: “Smack a n-gga in his mouth for the loot/ If I ever see that pussy n-gga Akademiks I’ma catch another lawsuit.”
