Kanye West Reportedly Leaves Tidal Over Financial Dispute
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Kanye West Reportedly Leaves Tidal Over Financial Dispute
Peter Helman 11:17 am
Kanye West is one of the original “artist owners” of Tidal, but he’s been chafing under the “Apple/Tidal ? ” for a while now, and TMZ reports that he’s just walked away from Tidal over a financial dispute. According to “sources connected to Tidal,” Kanye is claiming that the company owes him over $3 million — a bonus for the 1.5 million new subscribers that The Life Of Pablo netted the service, which he was promised but never received, and reimbursements for music videos. (Tidal is arguing that he never delivered the videos required by the contract, but Kanye says he won’t deliver the videos until he’s paid.)
A month ago, Kanye’s lawyer reportedly sent sent a letter to Tidal saying the company was in breach and that their contract was terminated. After weeks of lawyerly negotiations got nowhere, Tidal sent a letter back saying that he was still under exclusive contract and they would sue him if he tried to move to another streaming service. Kanye is apparently “willing to walk away,” and if Tidal sues him, he plans on suing them back. Lawsuits for everyone!
This conflict predates the release of JAY-Z’s new album 4:44, in which he says of Kanye, “You gave him 20 million without blinking/ He gave you 20 minutes onstage, ? was he thinking?” Kanye had no advance knowledge of JAY’s lyrics.
http://www.stereogum.com/1950122/kanye-west-reportedly-leaves-tidal-over-financial-dispute/news/#comments
Peter Helman 11:17 am
Kanye West is one of the original “artist owners” of Tidal, but he’s been chafing under the “Apple/Tidal ? ” for a while now, and TMZ reports that he’s just walked away from Tidal over a financial dispute. According to “sources connected to Tidal,” Kanye is claiming that the company owes him over $3 million — a bonus for the 1.5 million new subscribers that The Life Of Pablo netted the service, which he was promised but never received, and reimbursements for music videos. (Tidal is arguing that he never delivered the videos required by the contract, but Kanye says he won’t deliver the videos until he’s paid.)
A month ago, Kanye’s lawyer reportedly sent sent a letter to Tidal saying the company was in breach and that their contract was terminated. After weeks of lawyerly negotiations got nowhere, Tidal sent a letter back saying that he was still under exclusive contract and they would sue him if he tried to move to another streaming service. Kanye is apparently “willing to walk away,” and if Tidal sues him, he plans on suing them back. Lawsuits for everyone!
This conflict predates the release of JAY-Z’s new album 4:44, in which he says of Kanye, “You gave him 20 million without blinking/ He gave you 20 minutes onstage, ? was he thinking?” Kanye had no advance knowledge of JAY’s lyrics.
http://www.stereogum.com/1950122/kanye-west-reportedly-leaves-tidal-over-financial-dispute/news/#comments
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This is the moment all the Jigga warriors declare that they never liked Kanye to begin with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3L-lGPbqBM -
Who's the mouse guy? Is he a part owner too?
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power_wisdom wrote: »Who's the mouse guy? Is he a part owner too?
Deadmau5 (pronounced Dead mouse). He's a bit of a ? . -
dontdiedontkillanyon wrote: »power_wisdom wrote: »Who's the mouse guy? Is he a part owner too?
Deadmau5 (pronounced Dead mouse). He's a bit of a ? .
A bit? He straight up sucks -
Welp... here we go
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Jay-z wack and a snake 4:44 is ass water in a Starbucks cup. To make a long story short losing Kanye is proof he never cared about Ye or other Roc Nation artists.
Dame Dash>>>>>Camel face. -
Jay gave him 20M.. thats probably much more than what he got for holding up plates of food
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Welp... here we goJay-z wack and a snake 4:44 is ass water in a Starbucks cup. To make a long story short losing Kanye is proof he never cared about Ye or other Roc Nation artists.
Dame Dash>>>>>Camel face.Jay gave him 20M.. thats probably much more than what he got for holding up plates of food
@TonyDubbz didn't take long I see
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Jay got soft after he got with that broad Beyonce. Face facts . Roc a fella dead Roc Nation dead only one good artist(j Cole). The only thing keeping him relevant the last 10 years was doing songs with Beyonce on some Bebe and Cece Winans ? .
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HerbalVaporCapers wrote: »Welp... here we goJay-z wack and a snake 4:44 is ass water in a Starbucks cup. To make a long story short losing Kanye is proof he never cared about Ye or other Roc Nation artists.
Dame Dash>>>>>Camel face.Jay gave him 20M.. thats probably much more than what he got for holding up plates of food
@TonyDubbz didn't take long I see
Hollup why is dude eating that popcorn like that in that gif?! PAUSE
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As long as he still under RoC Nation the relationship can be salvaged......
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Jay gave him 20M.. thats probably much more than what he got for holding up plates of food
From what i understand Jay gave him 20 mill to stay loyal with tidal but apple offered him over 100mill. So really he did Jay a favor... -
HerbalVaporCapers wrote: »Welp... here we goJay-z wack and a snake 4:44 is ass water in a Starbucks cup. To make a long story short losing Kanye is proof he never cared about Ye or other Roc Nation artists.
Dame Dash>>>>>Camel face.Jay gave him 20M.. thats probably much more than what he got for holding up plates of food
@TonyDubbz didn't take long I see
Hollup why is dude eating that popcorn like that in that gif?! PAUSE
He is the GOAT, show respect even if he eating his popcorn abnormal. -
OGDirtyDee wrote: »
Whoa!! Where'd you hear that at!? -
Signing up to Tidal as an artist would never be a good move financially.
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Guess he's not his big brother no more
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Jay gave him 20M.. thats probably much more than what he got for holding up plates of food
kanye was like 20 mil and play dates for our kids and tell b at least one picture with kim and we have a deal -
OGDirtyDee wrote: »
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Here we go
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OGDirtyDee wrote: »
Fuuuuck.. for that type of bread...welp, disloyalty it is.. -
OGDirtyDee wrote: »
Why business and friendship shouldn't mix. Loyalty is now looking like a stupid move by Kanye. -
Jay z should just pay what he owe
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Yall ? really siding with Kanye without any facts? Smh the same Kanye who has spewed nothing but ? ? over the last few years?
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OGDirtyDee wrote: »
Fuuuuck.. for that type of bread...welp, disloyalty it is..
This story is oddly correlative
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4657514/Jeremy-Meeks-kisses-billionaire-s-daughter-Chloe-Green.html -
Yall ? really siding with Kanye without any facts? Smh the same Kanye who has spewed nothing but ? ? over the last few years?
Im sayin....