Jay-Z made a request to buy a few songs belonging to the late Pop star Prince at $40million but his family turned down his request and refused to sell the songs to him. Well, it seems like Prince’s family had their own reasons for turning down Jay Z’s offer. New reports from TMZ state that the leadership of Prince’s label NPG Records has sued Jay Z’s Roc Nation over alleged illegal tidal streaming.
Jay Z and the late Prince
A new report states that Tidal claims to have exclusive streaming rights for Prince’s music which is not the case. The complaint attained by Pitchfork argues that tidal is exploiting most copyrighted Prince Music and that they were never given full streaming rights for Prince’s music. It further asserts that Tidal was only given a 3 months period of exclusively streaming Prince’s 2015 album HITNRUN phase one.
However, Roc Nation did not hold their part of the deal and went ahead to stream all Albums of the late star. NPG records have not stated the amount of cash they want compensated to them by Jay Z but rumor has it that they might demand a fortune. Some of Prince’s albums that have allegedly been streaming on tidal illegally include, Pop Life, Purple Rain, 1999, Little Red Corvette, I wanna be your lover, Controversy, Cream and many more.
