Eminem in How Music Got Free, streaming on Paramount+, 2024.
Culture writer Niko Stratis and musician Rollie Pemberton chat about the new Paramount+ docuseries and the story of how pirating changed music forever.explores the massive disruption of digital pirating and how it almost ruined the record business — but also birthed a digital music revolution.
The two-part Paramount+ documentary is narrated by Method Man, and features interviews with Eminem, 50 Cent, Timbaland, Steve Stoute, and even the music pirates themselves., culture writer Niko Stratis and musician Rollie Pemberton join guest host Amil Niazi to chat about the doc and the story of how music changed forever.: Niko, we know the effects now, but it's been many decades since this phenomenon first began.
Artists fighting for better compensation and all of these conversations that are very real and very urgent right now, the context for those is kind of missing a little bit. So it's important to put it in perspective and to go back and say, this is where we were and this is what happened…. So now more than ever, it feels very prescient.: We should force them to. You know when you get a bag of flour and you're like, "This is a kid, care for it.
These things are all really important, and whenever people talk about it they always talk about, "Oh, the labels need to be making more money," or whatever. Like, no, we need to be bolstering artists' careers in order to be able to lift up the system and ensure that it can keep going, because otherwise these things are going to start to dwindle, and the 1 per cent of artists that we always talk about are going to be the only ones that are really left.
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