Introducing Music on Instagram

Today, Facebook-owned social network, Instagram, officially launched their new music and musician dedicated IG account, appropriately titled @music. Through this new account, you’ll be able to follow their featured artist wherever they choose to be, as well as up and coming artists.

With over 300 million users, Instagram founder and CEO Kevin Systrom shared his thoughts earlier today about how they plan to help emerging artist and well-known musician expand their art.

Or just another way to make their pockets fat? Yeah, I’ll probably go w/ that.

When it comes to music, Roots drummer and “Tonight Show” bandleader Questlove (@questlove) is all about the highs and lows. Take DJing, for instance. Give the crowd too many hits and you’ll numb them into the ground; too many non-jams and you’ll drive them off the dance floor. “When I first started, I was just desperate,” he says about the lack of pacing in his shows. “I was like, this is a hit, this is a hit, this is a hit. And you get addicted to the adrenaline rush of, ‘OH MY GOD THIS IS MY SONG.’ You kill them so much. I realized that now I am more obsessed with the opposite. I will put a bad song on and actually watch them filter out the floor. And I will wait two minutes [then play] ‘Uptown Funk’ –– ‘OH MY GOD IT’S MY SONG’ –– and then the scream is bigger than before. –Instagram @music Photo by @questlove

A photo posted by Instagram @music (@music) on Apr 29, 2015 at 6:22am PDT