Kanye West is being sued by a fan for making his new album widely available after promising it as an exclusive to the streaming service Tidal.
Jay Z's company Sean Carter Enterprises and streaming service Tidal, which Jay Z owns, are also targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit by fan Justin Baker-Rhett and law firm Edelson over West's album "The Life of Pablo," which came out back in February 2016.
(You can read the full court filing below, which we first saw over on TechCrunch).
The lawsuit references a tweet from Kayne in February about where the album would be available: "My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale. You can only get it on Tidal."
But at the start of April, the album became available to stream on platforms like Apple Music and Spotify and was very briefly available to buy on West's website.
The lawsuit calls the about-face a "deceptive marketing ploy" and accuses West of "fraudulently inducing customers to subscribe...
