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TIDAL leaked both the tracklist and album for Rihanna’s Anti album for a small amount of time and many people were able to rip it and get it all over the internet. TIDAL made sure to come out and blame the whole thing on Universal saying it was a “system error” caused by them. Now some executive at Universal has responded saying that it is absurd of TIDAL to say that it was their error and that they would of taken responsibility if it was indeed their fault the exec also said that TIDAL should focus more on trying to please Rihanna instead of trying to place blame on others. Where will this go from here? Who knows but seems like even the execs are beefing in the industry these days.

As we all know Kanye West went at Wiz Khalifa last week over a misunderstanding which lead to Wiz going as far as saying that Ye better run from him at his concerts. Now things have turned around completely Kanye has chilled way down and has spoken to Wiz having a conversation and putting everything to rest. Even Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose took a picture together last night at a club which is something people thought they would never see so things are looking good on all fronts. Check out the pic that Kim Kardashian West and Amber Rose took together last night below.

TMZ is reporting that Snoop Dogg had someone break into his SUV on Monday night and they got away with some important gear. Some things that were stolen included laptops, concert gear, and luggage which. The show Snoop has to perform is at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco but though the stuff was indeed stolen Snoop isn’t going to let it hold him back and is still performing at the venue. Hopefully the people that stole his gear is found eventually.

Source: TMZ

CEO of the biggest rap collective on the west coast, TDE is not happy about the brand new RIAA rules that allow for streams and video views to add to your album sales. Anthony Tiffith the CEO of TDE is totally against these new standards and he made sure to let everyone know about it over Twitter. “we don’t don’t stand behind this RIAA BS. Ole skool rules apply, 1 million albums sold is platinum. Until we reach that number, save all the congrats. No cheat codes 2 platinum… #TDE.” He posted and though it is cool to like the old way of doing things the simple facts are that streaming is taking over and if they can find a way for it to equal out to an album sale then it should be taken seriously.

Everyone knows that whenever Kanye West drops some shoes they are very popular but who knew they would dominate Ebay. Stats were compiled by Kick Posters, Campless, and Highsnobiety for shoe purchases. The stats revealed that people were buying whole lot of Yeezy’s in 2015 with $12.6 million making them the most popular shoes on the site for 2015. Is this what Kanye meant when he said that he had jumped over the jumpman?

Future has had a bit of a hot streak over the last year dropping Dirty Sprite 2 last Summer and then having a mixtape with Drake in the Fall. But Future doesn’t seem to stop making music for his fans and DJ Khaled has just announced via his Instagram that he will be debuting Futures new album this Friday on his brand new “We The Best” radio show on Apple Music. This really shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise because Future is known to have a ton of projects already completely just waiting to be released but it is still amazing to see this much new music out of someone who has been in the game for a good while now.

Okay now this is really unexpected because Rihanna’s new album “Anti” was given away to one million TIDAL subscribers in 15 hours and was certified platinum before even hitting store shelves. Billboard is reporting that Rihanna’s latest highly anticipated album “Anti” had 4.7 million streams and debut at number #27. The reasoning for such a low position is entirely because those 1 million free copies given away simply do not count and they put her actual copies sold right now at about 460 which is not a good look.

Source: Billboard

RIAA(Recording Industry Association of America) are the people that give out the gold and platinum awards for records. Today they made a huge change that effects a ton of artists giving Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly platinum and Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise as well. The way it works is like this for every 1,500 video views or song streams it is equivalent to having 1 album sale which may seem like a ton for 1 album but for the artist of today who get a huge amount of stream and video views it is perfect.

Rita Ora wants out of her contract with Roc Nation and opened a lawsuit against her label saying that they focused way too much on their athletes and not enough on their artists. Now according to TMZ Roc Nation is fighting right back counter suing Rita for $2.3 million in an attempt to get back the money they put into the marketing for her second album that has yet to see the light of day. Just to break things down Rita signed a ten year contract with Roc Nation and had to come up with five albums in that time span and this was back in 2008. Now since 2008 Rita has only had one album called “Ora” which was released way back in 2012. Reports from Ora’s attorney are that Jay Z has already agreed to let her go so we’ll wait and see if this gets settled clean.

During a 50 Cent concert we all know he invites the beef no matter where he goes and this time 50 had Kidd Kidd hop on stage at the Highline Ballroom in New York. Kidd Kidd got on stage and let the people hear the MMG diss he had been working on. “Drake could’ve fucked yo’ bitch if it wasn’t for Wayne / Let’s play a game of truth or dare, dare you speak my name / And tell Gunplay he gon’ need gunplay if he wanna get his chain.” So it looks like Kidd definitely has a problem with a bunch of people in MMG and he is not afraid to let it be known. Keep it right here for any updates on any of the beefs that are still going on.

The reasoning behind it remains to be unknown but Chief Keef took to his Twitter on Friday and decided to post someone address who lives in Minneapolis. Keef asked his followers to go to the residence and “throw eggs and shit in a bag and rocks and all that at this address Ima repost it”. The women who happened to live in the house saw the tweet and called police and the craziest thing is that the women who lived there have no connection to Keef at all and have no idea why he did it. Police have been watching over the house and though fans have come buy taking pictures of the home no ones has decided to do what he asked thankfully.

Back on the 27^th Rihanna’s highly anticipated new album “Anti” was leaked online on TIDAL just before it was supposed to officially release. And after that she gave away 1,000,000 copies of the album for free thanks to her deal with Samsung. Now while talking with SPIN TIDAL’s marketing director named Grace Kim said that the leak of the album was actually caused by a system error and this error was Universal Music Groups doing according to TIDAL.

Popular Chicago drill rapper and friend of Chief Keef, Lil Reese is reportedly locked up in Cook County jail with no bail. This is not his first rodeo either with the law with charges in 2013 and weapon charges in 2014. Word is that he has a hearing on February 1^st but keep it right here for any further updates on his situation.

Kanye West is allegedly set to perform on Saturday Night Live next month which would be on February 13^th. Now this is really interesting because his album is set to drop just days before then on February 11^th so he is going to have a ton of new material to perform which could lead to some amazing fresh performances from Yeezy. A cool fact is that Ye has actually been invited to do the show six times which is the most for a hip-hop artist and is pretty impressive.

Source: Fake Shore Drive

Drake has the most anticipated hip-hop album this year in his hands and we will only have to wait a little bit longer to hear it. On the OVO Sound Radio show today there was a brand new Drake single called “Summer Sixteen” and they played the hot track 6 times straight but after that Drake himself got on the mic and revealed that the album “Views From The 6” is dropping in April” so we are only a few months away and with Kanye dropping soon next month we are about to have a ton of amazing music.