A fan thinks Kanye West dissed him and is fighting back with a lawsuit.
Justin Baker-Rhett is suing the hip hop star on claims West lied when he said his album, "The Life of Pablo," would be available only on the streaming service Tidal, according to the proposed class-action suit filed Monday in US District Court in San Francisco.
The lawsuit says some 2 million subscribers signed up for Tidal and gave the struggling service access to $84 million in personal data and credit card information from users by promising exclusive access to the new album release in February.
The Grammy-winning rapper tweeted in February that "My album will never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale... You can only get it on Tidal."
But not only did the album appear on Tidal, but it was also released on West's web site, iTunes, Pandora, Spotify and other streaming services.
The suit, which also names fellow star rapper Jay Z (real name: Shawn Carter), who is also a partner is Tidal, alleges Baker-Rhett "subscribed to Tidal specifically because he was misled into believing that it was the only music platform on which the album would ever be available."
"But it wasn't. It was released on many more platforms than that," said Rafey Balabanian, a managing partner at Edelson PC, which filed the suit on Baker-Rhett's behalf.
The album was released on February 14 and pulled down shortly after it appeared. The album was reportedly illegally downloaded more than 500,000 times from other sites after many fans said they paid $20 to download the album off Tidal but didn't get it.
A West representative didn't immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
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