Vince Staples Accuses Spotify Of Taking Advantage Of The Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole Spat

Pretty much at the same time that Kendrick Lamar sent shots to J. Cole and Drake on the song "Like That," Spotify put up a billboard in New York City that says, "Hip hop is a competitive sport."

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While speaking on The Joe Budden Podcast, Vince Staples accused the company of taking advantage of the battle and brought up the topic of publishing. [Jump to the 1:39:50-mark]

"We have every songwriter that we’ve ever had in Hip Hop music complaining about their publishing splits, but we kind of don’t pay attention to that," Vince opined. "But once n*ggas get mad, the whole internet is activated and we got billboards from streamers talking about, 'Hip Hop is a sport,' but we ain’t never seen a billboard from a streamer that said, 'Give that n*gga his publishing back.'"

"Why are we at war with the n*gga that’s making a song and not the motherf*cker who owns the whole thing?" he asked. "We don’t say their name at all. We quiet when they do some f*ck sh*t."

Is Vince right?