Jay-Z Says Issues Downloading ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ Wasn't Cool

Jay-Z got a bad rap!
The hip hop legend told a New York radio station that he’s as disappointed as fans over the technical glitches with the Samsung app that prevented many from downloading his new album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” when it landed July 4.

“I can't even imagine waiting for Rakim's album at 12 o'clock and I couldn't get it and I downloaded and did everything right," Jay-Z said on Wednesday’s Power 105 The Breakfast Club broadcast, namechecking his ‘80s rapper idol to make his point.

"On the 24th I downloaded my app, I set it, I watched the clock count down and at 12 'clock I couldn't get it. For me that's not cool."

What had originally been intended as a pioneering marketing move — to allow one million Samsung smarphone users to be able to download Jay-Z’s new album for free days ahead of its July 7 release — fizzzled when many fans had trouble accessing the record.

"It's not a great problem because you want the fan to get that experience.” Jay-Z told Power 105. “The people that waited and downloaded it you want them to have that experience right away.

“That was the thing that was disheartening to me."

But Jay-Z added that the distribution model was the wave of the future for the music business — once the technology becomes a little smoother.

"The next person now knows how to go into it better, which is cool and that's my job. I took the hit for that," he said.






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