If you want to listen to Kanye West‘s Donda 2 album, you’re gonna have to use his own technology to do it.
On Thursday, the 44-year-old rapper announced that the sequel to his record-breaking album Donda, which is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, February 22, won’t be available to stream via the usual channels.
“Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube,” Ye shared in an Instagram post. To listen, you’ll need a Stem Player, which is being sold for $200.
He added, “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own. Go to stemplayer.com now to order.”
The post included a one-minute video and features one of Ye’s stem players lighting up in sync as a song plays.
In a later post, Ye explained, “You can download new music from stemplayer.com. You can play 4 different elements of the track: vocals, drums, bass and music. It also has a MP3 player available.”
“We currently have 67,000 available and are making 3,000 a day,” he added.
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