Kanye West’s “Vultures” Album Plucked From Streaming Providers

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative album, Vultures 1, has been pulled from Apple Music and iTunes. The transfer comes shortly after distribution firm FUGA introduced it was attempting to have the undertaking taken down because of a violation of its service settlement.

In an announcement to Billboard, FUGA defined it had already refused to host the album, however a “longstanding” FUGA shopper went across the firm’s again and uploaded it anyway.

Vultures 1 has already obtained hefty quantities of criticism and threats of authorized motion. West allegedly sampled a number of songs from a number of artists with out permission. The monitor “Good (Don’t Die)” was faraway from Spotify on Wednesday (February 14) after Donna Summer season’s property accused him of “copyright infringement” by sampling her 1977 monitor, “I Really feel Love.”

On February 9, Ozzy Osbourne revealed West had used a pattern of the 1983 Black Sabbath efficiency of “Iron Man” within the monitor “Carnival.” Each Osbourne and his spouse Sharon, who cited West’s historical past of antisemitism, threatened authorized motion. It was in the end scrubbed from the Spotify model of the track.

For now, Vultures 1 stays on Spotify. Regardless of the circus surrounding the discharge (let’s be sincere, nobody is stunned), it’s nonetheless anticipated to land at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 subsequent week, in keeping with HITS Each day Double. The album is projected to maneuver round 140,000 complete album-equivalent items in its opening week.

On Wednesday night time, West addressed the controversy surrounding Taylor Swift and the rumor she had him faraway from a Tremendous Bowl suite through Instagram. On the similar time, he chided the Swifties, Swift’s rabid fanbase, for  encouraging them to stream Beyoncé’s new singles to maintain him from the highest spot.

He wrote: “WHEN I SAID THAT I’M THE NEW JESUS B#### I WASN’T EVEN THINKING ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT. THAT WAS A WHOLE LINE BEFORE BUT I APPRECIATE THE FREE PROMO. LIL WAYNE ACTUALLY MENTIONS TRAVIS KELSEY ON VULTURES 2. THIS ALBUM IS ACTUALLY SUPER POSITIVE AND FUN IT’S ALL ABOUT TRIUMPHANT. LAST YEAR WAS INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING FOR ME, MY WIFE, MY CHILDREN, FRIENDS AND FAMILY. I’VE BEEN BANNED FROM HOTELS, KICKED OUT OF COMPANIES, AND EVEN NOT ALLOWED TO EAT IN SOME RESTAURANTS.

“EVERYONE SAW VULTURES 1 GET TAKEN OFF OF PLATFORMS TO LIMIT OUR FIRST WEEK NUMBERS. THIS REMINDS ME OF THE MISTREATMENT OF MY PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN. REMEMBER I WAS ON TAYLOR’S SIDE WHEN SCOOTER BOUGHT HER MASTERS BEHIND HER BACK. SHE AND BEYONCÉ ARE BIG INSPIRATIONS TO ALL MUSICIANS WE ALWAYS SAY HOW BOTH SELL OUT TOURS AND MOVIES ALSO, I’M SURE I’VE BEEN FAR MORE HELPFUL TO TAYLOR SWIFT’S CAREER THAN HARMFUL.”

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West continued: “TO ALL TAYLOR SWIFT FANS I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY UUUM IM NOT YOUR FRIEND EITHER THOUGH LOL. ALSO I DIDN’T GET KICKED OUT OF THE SUPER BOWL WE LEFT OUR SEATS TO GO TO YG’S BOX AND SEE DIFFERENT FRIENDS. MY WIFE HAD NEVER BEEN TO A SUPER BOWL SO I WANTED TO WALK AROUND AND HAVE A NICE TIME. WE HAD SUCH A FUN DAY.”