Tidal

Once good friends, but now are currently feuding with each other. Kanye West has decided to split from Jay-Z's Tidal, the music streaming service that is co-owned by different artistes, but spearheaded by Jay-Z.

Kanye West is splitting from the music streaming service because he claimed they owned him money, and he has been unhappy with Tidal for a long time. Kanye West then sent a letter to Tidal over breach of contract a month ago, and claimed that the company breached the contract, and said the contract is terminated.

The lawyers from Tidal and Kanye came together to resolve the issues amicably, but they could not come to a definite conclusion, and two weeks ago, Kanye's lawyer put up with a new letter finally cutting off contracts with Tidal.

Kanye claimed that Tidal owned him a bonus for bringing around 1 1/2 Million new subscribers to Tidal when he released his album, Life of Pablo, and also he was not paid for a music video, though Tidal claimed that Kanye West did not release the video, while Kanye fired back that he would release the video when he is paid.

The issue between Jay-Z and Kanye West has started before Jay-Z released his new album few days ago, where he dissed Kanye West for his 20 minutes rants on stage about him and his wife, Beyonce. Kanye West was reported not to have knowledge of the lyrics before it was released.

The company claimed they still have exclusive rights to Kanye West's contents, and if he released any of the content onto any other streaming platform, they will sue him, Kanye West who is willing to walk away from the whole saga vowed to sue back if Tidal comes for him.

Lil Wayne has announed that is album, Free Weezy album will be out in July, the album which was first slated to be released in March could not meet the release date and will be definitely dropping on 4th of July, 2015.

Lil Wayne made the announcement during his Anaheim, CA stop on his “Release Partiez” club tour at Heat Ultra Lounge OC. Though Lil Wayne did not disclose the platform where the album will drop, but fans are suggesting the album might be dropping exclusively on Tidal, since the rapper recently signed an owners deal with the music streaming service..

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Jay-Z had just released an epic freestyle exclusive on TIDAL as he comes out to defend the new music streaming service after the media tagged it to be "Failing".  In the one minute, 40 second video, Jay-Z talked about how artists are paid token for their services.

While speaking at the Jay Z - Tidal B-Sides Concert, Jay-Z bragged about how he never takes no checks, but instead take his respects and defends TIDAL against competitors like Spotify and Youtube.

  “I don’t need no middlemen to talk to my ni**as / I understand if you don’t understand I figure my ni**a / That’s where we differ / I take what’s mine you accept what they give you / I get you / I don’t take no checks / I take my respect / Pharrell even told me ‘Go with the best bet’ / Jimmy Iovine offered the safety net / Google came around with a crazy check / I feel like YouTube is the culp-a-rit /. Ni**as pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get / You know ni**a die for equal pay, right? You know what I’m worth / I ain’t your slave right / You know I ain’t shucking and jivin’ and high fivin’ / You know this ain’t back in the days right / But I can’t tell by the way they kill Freddie Gray right / Shot down / Mike Brown / Like the way they did Tray right? / Y’all gone’ keep choking’ ni**as / We gon’ turn style / I ain’t your token ni**a / You know I came in this game independent right / TIDAL / My own label / same difference / Oh ni**as is skeptical of they own shit / You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich / Phil Knight worth trillions you still bought those kicks / Spotify’s nine billion and they ain’t say shit / ‘Lucyyy you got some splainin’ to do’ / The only one they hatin’ on look the same as you / That’s cool / I know they tryin’ to bamboozle you / Spending billions on meryin’ to confusin’ you / I had to tell myself ‘Hov, get used to it’ / It’s politics as usual.”

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According to report, Pharell Williams got a token of $2700 for his "Happy" song even though it streamed 43million times on Pandora. Also Taylor Swift also said that a music streaming service like spotify is not adding to her art and has just ordered that all her catalogues from Spotify be pulled down because of the meagre amount they pay artists. 

Pharell has joined bandwagon of artists asking Youtube to remove some of their video from its online service.