THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE CALM BEFORE THE STREAMS

In this very baller #TBT shot, Jay Z offers Steve Bartels and L.A. Reid a tantalizing vision of a future music-distribution platform that could potentially earn them millions of tenths of a cent. Later, someone dropped by with a buttload of promotional cassingles and the three moguls sat down for a tasty lunch of caviar and thousand-dollar bills. In a related story, Steve's Def Jam and L.A.'s Epic have a bunch of artists who are streaming up a storm.