Jay-Z Samsung App Issues, Problems Has Magna Carta Holy Grail Album Rapper Saying Its 'Not Cool' [VIDEO]
Jay-Z expressed his disappointment about the problems Samsung users experienced when they attempted to download his new album Magna Carta Holy Grail.
The Brooklyn-born rapper addressed the issue when he appeared on New York's Power 105 The Breakfast Club radio show on Wednesday. A million Samsung Galaxy users were supposed to have access to Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail album three days before it hit stores. Unfortunately, at midnight on July 4 his fans attempted to download the album and many were unsuccessful.
"I can't even imagine waiting for Rakim's album at 12 o'clock and I couldn't get it and I downloaded - I did everything right," Jay-Z said in his radio interview, referring to the iconic 80s rapper Rakim, who he grew up listening to. "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."
The rapper explained that although he was upset about the mishap, the glitch wasn't one that Samsung or himself could have predicted. The Bed-Stuy emcee said because so many people accessed the app at the same time, the system crashed under the pressure.
"Anytime you do something different - and you should always try to push forward in whatever you're doing - it's going to be a problem," Jay-Z said. "The thing that happened with Samsung is a real thing; it was 20 million hits to the app. I'm not saying 20 million people hit the app, but we went over a million."
Mr. Carter was refereeing to the million or so Samsung Galaxy users who weren't able to download the album through the app and tried repeatedly to do so, overwhelming the system.
"It's not even a number that you can fathom; it's 20 times the amount we thought was going to happen. So you can't even prepare service for that, it's very difficult," Jay-Z explained.
