Kanye is being said to be abandoning the service over unpaid financial dues he believes he is being owed.
Kanye West has reportedly left Jay Z's Tidal music streaming service.
The 'Stronger' rapper is said to be severing all ties with the music service over claimed unpaid entitlements he expects to have got from Tidal, reportedly being in the sum of $3million, including bonuses for attracting paying subscribers to Tidal upon release of his "Life Of Pablo" album .
West was one of the pioneer artists to buy into Tidal's mission and give companies like Apple and Spotify a competition.
A part of Tidal's strategy has been to tie up artists to exclusive releases of their projects on the music platform. Asides Kanye West's Life Of Pablo (which was however later released on Apple which got him lawsuits from fans for tricking them to sign on to Tidal), Rihanna's "Anti" as well as Jay Z's new "4:44" album have been made exclusive on the service.
Tidal has in turn released a statement claiming that Kanye hasn't delivered the videos he is expected to be out with based on contract signed.
This fall out has led to lawyers representing both sides sending letters, with threat to sue, according to a TMZ report.
Tidal has had its fair share of criticisms from fellow industry artists and fans for its exclusivity model, management reshuffles among other issues.
Jay-Z relaunched Tidal in 2015 with a roster of other A-list artists as an artist-backed alternative to Pandora or Spotify. Tidal claims to pay more royalties and was set up as a co-ownership with Jay-Z's artist friends like Madonna and Coldplay's Chris Martin.
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