Tattle: Kanye West sued over Tidal change regarding 'Life of Pablo'

Tidal and Kanye West are being sued by San Francisco Kanye fan Justin Baker-Rhett who's claiming the streaming service and Kanye duped users into taking Tidal subscriptions because it was supposed to be the exclusive outlet for Kanye's The Life of Pablo.

Except it wasn't.

Billboard reports that the proposed class action lawsuit is in the works because millions of people flocked to Tidal and its $9.99 monthly fee in February because of Kanye's promise of Pablo exclusivity. The rush of customers gave Tidal lots of customer data, which Baker-Rhett wants a judge to order Tidal to delete.

By the way, Kanye owns a piece of Tidal.

"Mr. West's promise of exclusivity also had a grave impact on consumer privacy," the suit states, noting Tidal's collection of credit card numbers, music preferences and other personal info.

The suit includes a Kanye Twitter posting which clearly stated, "My album will never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale . . . You can only get it on Tidal."

Pablo then showed up on Apple Music and Spotify for free.

And Kanye sold the album on his own website.

Hamilton, the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama, honoring creator Lin-Manuel Miranda for a dazzling musical that has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows.

The Columbia University's prize board on Monday cited Hamilton as "a landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible." Other finalists were Gloria, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and The Humans, by Stephen Karam.

"I feel really humbled and really overwhelmed," Miranda told the Associated Press. "Columbia is Hamilton's alma mater so I think that gave me a home-court advantage. But it's extraordinary to be recognized in this way."

In for a Penny, In for a Pound, by Henry Threadgill was named the winner in the music category. The 72-year-old Chicago-born jazz artist said he wrote the composition for members of his band, Zooid.

"It was something to showcase each musician in the ensemble, that was the big thing," Threadgill said. "It was like a series of small concertos in a way, small solo pieces."

* Gwen Stefani is hitting the road this summer to promote her new hit album This Is What the Truth Feels Like and there's no doubt it's going to be awesome because her opening act is fashion-forward actress/rapper and Philly native Eve.

The tour starts starts July 12 at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Mass., but the key date is July 19, when the dynamic duo hits the BB&T Pavilion in Camden.

Stefani last played Camden solo in 2007 during her Sweet Escape tour. Eve toured briefly in 2013 for Lip Lock but the closest she got to this area was New York.

The longtime collaborators first worked together in 2001 on "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (from Eve's Scorpion album) and in 2004 on "Rich Girl" (from Stefani's Love. Angel. Music. Baby. album).

Tickets go on sale this morning at 10.

* The Hollywood Reporter reports that Philly's own Kevin Bacon is returning to the small screen in a new Amazon comedy from Jill Soloway (Transparent).

It's called I Love Dick and it's about the dissolution of a marriage and not the opposite of Transparent.

* The Los Angeles Times reports that China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) has banned the children of celebrities from appearing on reality television, the official New China News Agency has reported.

The problem with Chinese television? Vulgarity and materialism. Thank goodness that isn't a problem here.

In March, another agency, the TV Production Committee of the China Alliance of Radio, Film and Television, banned depictions of homosexuality, extramarital affairs and one-night stands on TV, saying they were "harmful to the unity and sovereignty of the country and its territorial integrity."

With 1.357 billion people, what are the odds that without such salacious programming any of them whould be gay, cheat on a spouse or hook up?

- Daily News wire services

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