One of Kanye West’s albums was abruptly removed from streaming services this week after the rapper was threatened with legal action.
On Wednesday, Kanye West released his album Donda 2 on streaming services for the first time. The album was initially released exclusively on his own platform, Stem Player, back in 2022. On Wednesday, however, the album was finally released on the major streaming services like Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music years later.
However, the release on streaming services was short-lived.
Just hours after the album was added to streaming services, it was suddenly removed after an apparent legal dispute.
Kanye shared a post on Twitter showing a text conversation with DeAndre “Free” Maiden, who manages the producers Jahmal “Boogz Da Beast” Gwin and Brian “AllDay” Miller. The message requested that the album be taken down over Kanye’s failure to pay them for their work after they had worked on several songs on the album.
“We did not & do not consent to the usage of our work for Donda 2 or ANY Ye project! He’s owed us $ for almost 3 years now, has refused to pay, yet keeps stealing our work,” the text message said.
“The Lawyers are getting this taken down within the hour,” the message continued.
Kanye clearly was not happy with this decision.
“Free Maiden tried to charge me 3 million dollars for these beats from people I showed how to make beats to,” Kanye wrote in the caption of the post. “Now he going to take down Donda 2.”
We’ll have to see whether or not the two sides can work out an agreement to have the album back on streaming services.
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Author: Kevin Harrish