Crazy to think about how quickly they fell off against the other streaming giants.

You can’t compare them to “other streaming giants” they were around a decade before them

Yeah but it created a literal sound scape in a flash that you would think they could catch up fast enough with spotify

I'm on Soundcloud right now.

classic era

It was just a completely different thing, more of a blog era device for regular people to post music, not intended for artists and labels like Spotify was. That was a whole new model so you couldn’t expect SoundCloud or anyone to catch up and beat Spotify and Apple at their own game once they got going

They shoulda worked with Carti, Uzi, Yachty and XXX to release through them exclusively. Obviously they wouldn’t have known that back then

Is that your palm?
You see that vein discolouration visible through your Langerhans?
You might have a case of something

still use it every other day for mixtapes or edm

Once they got signed there was no reason for them to post on SoundCloud anymore.
SoundCloud is more like a MySpace type of music service where indie artists can post their latest songs, but that's not where you're gonna get a big exposure and get a lot of money from streams

SoundCloud was influential enough that a KTT user got clout on his song all because it automatically played after a Yeezy song on the app

ion know tho, if SoundCloud had capitalized in 2016 before everything blew up mainstream while these artists were their biggest artist on their platform where everyone was going to listen to them, they coulda did a lotta s*** with them. Them niggas had millions listening

I wasn’t on this site when he uploaded those but I can only imagine y’all reaction when the No More Parties In LA snippet played after Real Friends

...and?

It's a music platform like any other lol

A case of what?

A case of being a lil b*tch

I'm killing myself now.

This pic goes hard ngl

this era of ye randomly dropping loosies was tight i miss it

I think SoundCloud was done in by the copyright guys catching on to what was going on, and heavily restricting artists’ ability to use noncleared samples on the platform.
After you couldn’t upload classic style mixtapes over beats you didn’t own to it anymore, it just seemed like another streaming service, rather than this vital and wild audio landscape it felt like before

Original Facts was so hard

remember antidote dropping on soundcloud. went from loosie to rodeo's main single

the soundcloud format would still be good, but it needs to be peer-to-peer or decentralized in some way so the copyright trolls f*** off