Lil Wayne’s record label is reportedly suing Jay Z’s TIDAL for “illegally” streaming the rapper’s latest album. Weezy’s FWA (Free Weezy Album) was released on TIDAL earlier this month, purportedly as an exclusive, but in a lawsuit that TMZ claims to have obtained, Cash Money Records apparently accuses TIDAL of mounting “a desperate and illegal attempt to save their struggling streaming service” by monopolising the album.
According to TMZ, TIDAL has countered by arguing that Cash Money doesn’t own the exclusive rights to Lil Wayne’s music, claiming that the rapper agreed to their streaming deal in return for a stake in the company. However, Cash Money is apparently insisting that, under its contract with Lil Wayne, the rapper has no power to license his music out to anyone else.
Cash Money’s alleged lawsuit against TIDAL is the latest development in an increasingly difficult relationship between Lil Wayne and the label. Earlier this year Lil Wayne filed a lawsuit against Cash Money in a bid to be freed from his record contract, but at present, he remains on its roster. He referenced his ongoing battle with the label on Shit (Remix), a track from his recent mixtape Sorry 4 the Wait 2, rapping: “Did my time at Cash Money, time served and released / But this agent ain’t free, word, that’s the word on these streets.”
On another track from the mixtape, Coco, the rapper compares himself to Scarface‘s ill-fated hero Tony Montana. “Cash Money is an army, I’m a one-man army / And if them n*ggas comin’ for me, I’m goin’ out like Tony,” he raps.
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