Kanye West Wants To Sell You A $200 Music Player For His Songs
Kanye West - America's bonafide provocateur is going all in to promote his upcoming music album called "Donda".?
Yeezy Tech, the technology arm of West's empire is releasing a new gadget!Called "Stem Player", the Yeezy Tech device was created in collaboration with Kano, a London-based start up famous for creating STEM products.?
Kanye West's speaker is designed to isolate stems from music, meaning specific elements like vocals, bass, samples, and drums.
According to West's website, the speaker device can add special effects to music and also remix any songs.
?Meet Yeezy Tech's Stem Player
The speaker will come loaded with West's upcoming studio album "Donda", named after his late mother Donda West.?
West's website also adds that while the device is a special item marking the release of his new album, it will be able to play any music.
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The $200 speaker was first revealed to be under development in 2019, during the release of his last studio album "Jesus Is King".?
At that point, he announced that the device would be created in collaboration with design firm Teenage Engineering.At that point, West told Zane Lowe that his goal is to "spread the gospel" through this Stem Player.?
Kano usually creates educational paraphernalia to assist children in learning skills like programming. The company had been struggling for a while and the Stem Player might just be its resurgence.?
Watch the speaker in action below:
?The speaker will come with a headphone jack and support Bluetooth connectivity. In addition, it will pack a USB-C port, buttons for volume control, a haptic engine, and 8GB of storage! The lightbars in the front are being called "touch sensitive light sliders", which may help in controlling and customising the songs.
The Stem Player is capable of playing music in an range of formats including?.AIFF, .AIF, .FLAC, .M4A, .MP3, .WAV, .WAVE, .AAC, .ALAC, and .MP4.??
From West to Ye
According to images shared by Yeezy Tech, the Stem Player will rock a silicone skin exterior with minimal "Yeezy Tech x Kano" branding on the back side.?
Recently, Kanye West took a step further into the world of absurd and announced that he would be officially changing his name to "Ye".?
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In court documents that were filed in Los Angeles, United States, West cited "personal reasons" for his decision to change the name.Three years ago, West released the album titled Ye and tweeted about his plans to initiate the name changing process.?
?"The being formally known as Kanye West. I am YE", he wrote in September 2018.
