News - 03/07/2017

Kanye West and JAY-Z threaten to sue one another over TIDAL

Kanye West and JAY-Z threaten to sue one another over TIDAL

According to "TMZ", something is going on between rappers Kanye West and JAY-Z...and they're fighting. Indeed, Now, it seems that West is threatening legal action against JAY-Z’s “artist-owned” streaming service TIDAL, for breach of their contract.

TMZ wrote:

We’re told Kanye’s beef with TIDAL is twofold. His "Life of Pablo" album resulted in 1 1/2 million new subscribers to TIDAL, for which he was supposed to get a bonus but the company hasn’t paid. Kanye also says TIDAL reneged on reimbursing him for music videos.

According to TMZ’s sources, TIDAL alleges that West hasn’t delivered the videos required by the contract. West, they say, says he’ll deliver the videos when he’s paid.

It’s been pretty obvious that West has never really been onboard with TIDAL. When the service began hemorrhaging subscribers in its first few weeks, West seemed to publicly disavow the company he helped launch by deleting all of his tweets about it. Then, after promising 2016’s "The Life of Pablo" would only be available on TIDAL, it soon popped up on Spotify, Apple Music, and the rapper’s own website.

"TMZ" says that TIDAL maintains that they have an exclusive contract with West, and that they’ll sue him if he works with another streaming service. “We’re told Kanye’s willing to walk away,” TMZ says, “but if TIDAL sues him, he’ll sue right back”.

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