Rapper/producer/Twitter star Kanye West is working on a video game called "Only One," about his mother.

Specifically, the game is about Kanye's mother Donda trying to get into heaven.

Kanye showed off a brief clip of the game during his "Yeezy Season 3" performance at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, which also marked the debut of his newest album, "The Life of Pablo."

Here's a look at the game.

Kanye's mother, Dr. Donda West, passed away in November 2007 after complications stemming from heart disease and a recent plastic surgery, where she'd undergone liposuction and a breast reduction. This incident led to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signing legislation known as the "Donda West Law," which says patients must provide medical clearance before getting any kind of elective surgery.

Kanye was close to his mother his whole life. The pair moved to China when Kanye was just 10 years old as part of a teaching exchange program, and when they returned to their home in Chicago, his mother supported him through his artistic endeavors. As a teacher, Donda didn't totally approve when Kanye dropped out of college at the age of 20, but she did ultimately support his decision to embrace his musical career.

Many of Kanye's songs mention his mother, but a few of them are specifically about her and are dedicated to her memory, including "Hey Mama" and "The Coldest Winter."

Check out a trailer for "Only One" below.

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Kanye West followed up his big New York Fashion Week show and album listening party for "Life of Pablo" with an appearance on this weekend's Melissa McCarthy-hosted "Saturday Night Live."

West performed two singles from the album (which released early Sunday morning). Joined by Young Thug, El Debarge, Kelly Price and The-Dream, West performed "Highlights" as his opening song.

He was then joined by The-Dream, Price, Kirk Franklin and Chance the Rapper on a beautiful performance of the song, "Ultralight Beam."

 Also on the show, "SNL" cast member Kyle Mooney revealed his derailed aspirations of becoming a rapper. The NBC sketch show, he said, would shift his career in a different direction. But how could he pass up the chance of beating "the greatest rapper alive"? Taking his chance while West was on the show, Mooney dropped a few lines on a bewildered West. After giving Mooney his chance to show his skills (or is it skillz?), West shut the rap battle down.

Watch Mooney versus West below:

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The 58th annual Grammy Awards take place Monday night, and even if the musicians don't win, they each still get to take home a gift bag filled with lavish items worth about $22,000.

Organized by Distinctive Assets, the same company that puts together the extravagant Oscar "swag bag," this year's bag includes a $199 box of chocolates and a $5,500 ultherapy treatment, which uses ultrasound energy to tighten skin.

The company has hosted the Grammy Gift Lounge and organized the gift bag for 17 years.

Here's everything that this year's nominees, presenters, and performers will get in their Grammy gift bags:

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Hairstyling products, including a blow-dryer and flatiron by Tools By Gina, $250

SCUF Gaming customized controllers, $300

Phillip Ashley Chocolates: Luxe Collection chocolate gift box, $199, and 23k Gold salted caramel pecan praline, $79

In keeping with his persona as a hip hop aficionado and public villain, Martin Shkrelli recently sought to keep Kanye West's new "Life of Pablo" record from fans by buying it directly from the label for $15 million, but if his recent tweets are to be believed, he got scammed out of the money.

On Sunday, Shkreli tweeted that he came into contact with someone named "Daquan" and sent him a payment of $15 million via bitcoin to no result. The rest of his tweets were full of profanities and frantic ideas to get his money back.

Ultimately, he concluded that he would contact Sitoshi, the creator of bitcoin, to get his money back. 

Though Shkreli remained confident he could get his money back, a $15 million dollar hit like this would throw salt on other financial wounds he's incured lately, like the loss of $40 million on his E-Trade account, or the heavy legal fees he will owe to his high-profile attorney.

Here's the tweet where he announced he bought the album:

Followed not long after by this outburst:

And the follow up tweets:

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones."

The highly-anticipated teaser trailer for "Game of Thrones" season six has leaked online hours ahead of its scheduled debut. The first teaser was expected to premiere at 8:59 p.m. EST on February 14. 

The newly-released teaser glosses over the cast of familiar faces, dead inside the temple of the Many-Faced God.

What does this mean for the cast? At the end of season 5, most of them were left in disarray.

Jon Snow was left to die after his Night's Watch brothers stabbed him in brutal mutiny. Daenerys Targaryen had jumped on her dragon's back and flown away from her queendom in Meereen only to land in the middle of a Dothraki army. Cersei and Margaery are in the midst of a power struggle with the Faith Militant and High Sparrow, while Arya trains as a deadly assassin in Braavos. And then there's Bran Stark who's training with Bloodraven to learn the magical powers of greensight.

"Game of Thrones" returns to HBO April 24.

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As he unleashed his much-anticipated new album, "The Life of Pablo," through an exclusive Tidal release, Kanye West said he's deep in debt.

"I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt... Please pray we overcome... This is my true heart..." West tweeted.

 He also seemed to ask Mark Zuckerberg to invest $1 billion in "Kanye West ideas."

"The Life of Pablo" is only available on Tidal for a week, and then it will get a traditional release and show up on other streaming platforms.

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Warning: There are massive spoilers ahead if you have not watched the mid-season premiere of "The Walking Dead."

A lot happened on Sunday's mid-season premiere of "The Walking Dead."

The hit AMC series brought to life one of the biggest scenes from the popular comic series so far. While you may be reeling over the biggest shockers of the night, you probably didn't realize that the mid-season premiere was the first time the makeup and visual effects crew tried out a new technique to show off some zombie gore.

Tech Insider caught up with episode director and make-up supervisor Greg Nicotero before the season return to find out how some of the episode's big moments came together.

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About midway through the episode, Jessie's son Sam (Major Dodson) gets torn apart by several walkers. 

However, there's one zombie in particular you should look out for in the mid-season premiere. Look out for the walker who takes a bite into Sam's forehead. You'll see a bunch of blood comes rushing out of the wound.

In the past, the series has pulled off similar effects by having actors wear blood filled tubes or by using a prosthetic on the actor. That wasn't the case this time. 

"One of my make-up artists — Gino Crognale — who’s played numerous walkers in the show, he played the walker who bit Sam," Nicotero explained. "And the way we did that gag was something we’ve never done before. We built a set of dentures – zombie dentures that had blood tubing attached to the teeth so we could see him bite on his forehead and blood shot out of his forehead. And we did that by pumping blood out of his teeth as opposed to doing a prosthetic on Major."

The series has been making custom zombie dentures on the show since season one. Every season it looks like the show continues to find another way to evolve the way in which they are used.

"I love that I’ve been doing this for 30 years and we’re six seasons into it and we’re still coming up with fun, cool ways to do gags," added Nicotero.

Nicotero himself has shown up in several episodes of the series in full zombie makeup, but you probably won't spot him in the mid-season premiere — unless you really know where to look.

"I think my hands are in there," says Nicotero. "There’s a couple little tribute zombies in there."

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Since Netflix moved into original content in 2013, it's had a pleasant rivalry with HBO based on mutual respect.

Netflix's content chief Ted Sarandos has even said Neflix’s “goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.”

Now we're starting to see that HBO wants to become more like Netflix — particularly with regards to international expansion and supersizing production.

During Time Warner's Q4 earnings call, HBO CEO Richard Plepler and Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes revealed the company's focus going forward.

First, HBO intends to ramp up production, which will increase by 50% this year. Second comes internatoinal expansion.

This echoes Netflix almost exactly, which has said it will double its production of originals this year, and produce a whopping 600 hours of original content, and which recently added 130 new countries. Netflix's thesis is that it can soar to profitability by creating a ton of (globally available) original content, and simultaneously expanding its subscriber base to reduce its cost per user. 

This two-step plan is built on the assumption that the variations in TV show preferences within countries are greater than those between countries, a stance that Netflix CPO Neil Hunt stressed to Business Insider. This means that a show considered “niche” can still find audiences all over the world. And it also means that international expansion can dramatically reduce costs per subscriber — provided the company can create a globally compelling brand.

Both HBO and Netflix are betting they can.

Finally, HBO wants to ape Netflix and become "ecosystem agnostic" (as Plepler puts it). That means that, like Netflix, HBO wants to live wherever you are: your laptop, phone, smart TV, and so forth. And it means a break from the traditional cable package.

HBO has pushed this with its cable-free streaming service, HBO Now. The service launched last April, and lets you pay $15 a month to get HBO a la carte. But HBO Now has struggled to keep pace with analyst expectations, and only has 800,000 paying subscribers so far, according to Plepler.

Plepler has tried to put HBO Now subscriber growth in context, emphasizing that some content that is particularly suited for digital platforms, like Vice's daily news show and Jon Stewart's coming project, has not yet debuted. But HBO still has a ways to go in extricating itself from a reliance on traditional cable, and building an "over-the-top" brand like Netflix.

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Kanye West made waves over the weekend when he announced that his long-awaited new album, "The Life of Pablo," will only be available from the Tidal music streaming service for the next week.

It's great for Tidal, which is seeing a rush of new subscribers on the back of Kanye-mania.

But  left Kanye fans like myself wondering if there's a way to hear the album during this exclusive period without having to shell out for a Tidal membership, which runs $9.99 a month — or $19.99 if you want higher-quality sound. 

Now, Tidal offers a 30-day free trial subscription to new members.

Be aware that there is a better way, thanks to the munificence of Queen Bey: Just go to beyonce.tidal.com, pop in your name and e-mail, and you'll get a 90-day trial of Tidal, gratis, plus a free download of Beyoncé's new single "Formation." You know, the song she played during the Super Bowl. 

The catch is that you need to attach a credit card or PayPal to your account so they can charge you once the 90 days is up. Cancel your subscription before the trial is through, though, and Tidal won't charge you at all.

So enjoy "The Life of Pablo," free. It remains to be seen, though, how many Tidal subscribers will stick around once Kanye's new album is no longer exclusive.

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Known in the electronica world by his alias, Junkie XL, Dutch musician Tom Holkenborg has been making his mark in Hollywood for over a decade as a composer, but now he's getting a lot more attention.

Holkenborg has been on an impressive run, including doing the scores for “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Black Mass,” “Deadpool," and the highly anticipated “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”

Business Insider talked to Holkenborg about how he created the unique music for these movies.

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Originally the “Mad Max: Fury Road” score was only going to include music from The Doof Warrior.

Holkenborg’s entrance into George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” began in August of 2013 when he flew to Sydney to see the movie, which Holkenborg admits didn’t have “a beginning and an ending.”

But Miller had an idea for the film’s score: that it would entirely come from the guitar-playing/flamethrower-shooting character The Doof Warrior.

“He didn’t want any score at all in the movie,” Holkenborg told Business Insider. “He thought at first the guitar and the sound of the cars would be enough, and that’s how we started on the film.”

But Holkenborg would convince Miller to go a different route once he came up with some music.

The music for the massive storm scene changed the score for “Fury Road.”

After seeing most of the movie in 2013, Holkenborg immediately went to work on the guitar sound for The Doof Warrior and the massive drums that accompany him, but he also came up with the music to accompany the massive sandstorm the lead characters drive into.

The music that features horns and strings matched with the chaos inside the eye of the storm caused Miller to completely change his mind about only having The Doof Warrior guitar be the main score.

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“I was so inspired after seeing the movie that I immediately took on the massive storm scene and finished it in four weeks. It was a writing extravaganza,” Holkenborg said. “[George] loved it so much. He said, 'It’s done,' and he never came back to me with any notes about that section for two years.”

But Holkenborg wasn’t done with the film. For the next two years, it was constant “experimentation” in filling in the emotional music Miller needed for the second half of the movie.

“Black Mass” is Holkenborg’s version of a traditional score.

Holkenborg said that this movie that looks inside the violent reign of infamous crime boss Whitey Bulger is his most by-the-numbers score.

“It’s live strings, live woodwinds, and piano. It was the first time I had done a movie like that,” he said.

Holkenborg had come onto the film with only four weeks until it was to be locked, so he said the discussions with director Scott Cooper on creating this evolving music to resemble Bulger’s rise as a crime lord were essential.

But, at times, having no music was the best play.

The wealthiest 50 people in the world control a staggering portion of the world economy: $1.46 trillion — more than the annual GDP of Australia, Spain, or Mexico.

That's according to new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, which conducts research on the super-wealthy. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency-exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

Its latest ranking of the world's billionaires found that 29 of the top 50 hail from the US and nearly a quarter made their fortunes in tech. To crack this list, you'd need to have a net worth of at least $14.3 billion. And for the most part these people weren't born with a silver spoon. More than two-thirds are completely self-made, having built some of the most powerful companies, including Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, Nike, and Oracle.

From tech moguls and retail giants to heirs and heiresses, here are the billionaires with the deepest pockets around the globe.

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49. TIE: Aliko Dangote

Net worth:$14.3 billion

Age: 58

Country: Nigeria

Industry: Diversified investments

Source of wealth: Self-made; Dangote Group

At 20, Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote borrowed money from his uncle to start a business that dealt in commodities trading, cement, and building materials. He quickly expanded to import cars during the country's economic boom. Four years later, in 1981, he formed Dangote Group, an international conglomerate that now holds diversified interests that include food and beverages, plastics manufacturing, real estate, logistics, telecommunications, steel, oil, and gas. At $14.3 billion, Dangote's fortune is the largest in Africa and equal to 2.5% of Nigeria's GDP.

The majority of Dangote's wealth stems from his stake in Dangote Cement, which is publicly traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He owns cement plants in Zambia, Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa, and in 2011 invested $4 billion to build a facility on the Ivory Coast. Dangote bought back a majority stake in Dangote Flour Mills — which had grown unprofitable after he sold a large stake to South African food company Tiger Brands three years ago for $190 million — in December for just $1. He is also chairman of The Dangote Foundation, which focuses on education and health initiatives, including a $12,000-per-day feeding program.

49. TIE: James Simons

Net worth:$14.3 billion

Age: 77

Country: US

Industry: Hedge funds

Source of wealth: Self-made; Renaissance Technologies

Before revolutionizing the hedge fund industry with his mathematics-based approach, "Quant King" James Simons worked as a code breaker for the US Department of Defense during the Vietnam War, but was fired after criticizing the war in the press. He chaired the math department at Stony Brook University for a decade until leaving in 1978 to start a quantitative-trading firm. That firm, now called Renaissance Technologies, has more than $65 billion in assets under management among its many funds.

Simons has always dreamed big. About 10 years ago, he announced that he was starting a fund that he claimed would be able to handle $100 billion, about 10% of all assets managed by hedge funds at the time. That fund, Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund, never quite reached his aspirations — it currently handles about $10.5 billion— but his flagship Medallion fund is among the best-performing ever: It has generated a nearly 80% annualized return before fees since its inception in 1988.

In October, Renaissance shut down a $1 billion fund — one of its smaller ones — "due to a lack of investor interest." The firm's other funds, however, have been up and climbing. Simons retired in 2009, but remains chairman of the company.

47. TIE: Laurene Powell Jobs

Net worth:$14.4 billion

Age: 52

Country: US

Industry: Media

Source of wealth: Inheritance; Disney

The widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs inherited his wealth and assets, which included 5.5 million shares of Apple stock and a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Co., upon his death. Jobs' stake in Disney — which has nearly tripled in value since her husband's death in 2011 and comprises more than $12 billion of her net worth — makes her the company's largest individual shareholder.

Though she's best recognized through her iconic husband, Jobs has had a career of her own. She worked on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs before earning her MBA at Stanford in 1991, after which she married her late husband and started organic-foods company Terravera. But she's been primarily preoccupied with philanthropic ventures, with a particular focus on education. In 1997, she founded College Track, an after-school program that helps low-income students prepare for and enroll in college, and in September she committed $50 million to a new project called XQ: The Super School Project, which aims to revamp the high-school curriculum and experience.

Last October, Jobs spoke out against "Steve Jobs," Aaron Sorkin's movie about her late husband that portrays him in a harsh light, calling it "fiction." Jobs had been against the project from the get-go, reportedly calling Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to ask them to decline roles in the film.

Hulu's "11.22.63" looks back with hindsight at the theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the man who U.S. history books have taught us killed the young president, Lee Harvey Oswald.

For Daniel Webber, the Australian actor who plays Oswald on the eight-episode limited series, much of his character's biography was very new to him.

"I didn't know any of his story, any of his family, so the whole thing was new and surprising," Webber, who starred on Australia's long-running soap "Home and Away" last year, told Business Insider. "There's so much to this man and he is such a complex guy, so trying to learn about him was interesting."

Based on the 2012 Stephen King novel of the same title and executive-produced by King, J.J. Abrams ("Star Wars: The Force Awakens"), and showrunner Bridget Carpenter ("Friday Night Lights"), "11.22.63" stars James Franco as Jake, a high school teacher who's drafted by his aging mentor into using a hidden portal to 1960 in order to stop the JFK assassination. Once there, he can't go back and forth in time or he'll risk erasing any progress he has made. But before stopping Oswald, he will explore several other theories surrounding JFK's death.

"That's kind of the whole point of this series. We really do want to look at those infinitesimal day-to-day choices that we make or don't make, which end up setting us on a certain path and that lining up to you shooting the president," Webber explained. "That was one of the exciting parts about this — looking at what happens if Lee doesn't do this, maybe the past has been changed enough so that he won't do this due to things like the butterfly effect. It's an interesting question."

The Hollywood Reporter's television critic called Webber's portrayal of Oswald "wonderful." And Variety singled out Webber's "mastering [of] Oswald’s peculiar speech pattern and growing sense of paranoia." Webber, who had never used an American accent on screen, studied Oswald's speaking style first on his own, and then with a coach to refine his accent.

"There's quite a lot of recordings on him," Webber said. "And each one contains a very different-sounding voice in its own way. So it was finding a middle ground with the different voices, 'cause I think he was always in some way playing a different part... That was part of the process of trying to figure out his voice: Learning the sounds and the shifts that Oswald had and the unusual inflections, then really trying to replicate that and spending hours each day just practicing."

Then there were the more psychological aspects of Oswald for Webber to absorb, such as his complicated relationship with his widowed mother (played by Cherry Jones).

"His mother Marguerite was grandiose and controlling and overwrought and she was a lost soul that was trying to fill this bottomless well of uncontrolled love no matter what the cost was," Webber explained. "I think that Lee was a real projection of that, so I looked into the mother-son relationship quite deeply to understand him and understand the reason behind the choices and actions that he took from 13 years old to when he was killed at 24."

"11.22.63" debuts Monday, February 15 (Presidents' Day) on Hulu.

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Though Pee-wee Herman has shown up for the occasional cameo and Broadway special in recent years, actor Paul Reubens hasn't done a full-fledged movie wearing the famous gray suit and red bow tie in close to three decades. Netflix, with the help of Judd Apatow as producer, is ending that drought with "Pee-wee's Big Holiday" when it launches on the streaming giant March 18.

And if it looks like Pee-wee hasn't aged since 1988's "Big Top Pee-wee," Reubens is the first to admit that a lot of digital wizardry has gone into making the character look great for his comeback.

The digital retouching of actors' faces and bodies so they look pristine in high definition has been going on for some time now, but it's one of those tools of movie magic that Hollywood doesn't want you to know goes on.

However, in a new profile of Reubens in the New York Times Magazine, the 63-year-old actor was very open about his face being digitally retouched for "Pee-wee's Big Holiday."

"I feel I'm too old to be in a Pee-wee Herman movie without that," said Reubens in the piece, referring to the digital retoucher he personally hired to meticulously go through the footage to give him a more youthful look, and clean up any visible makeup or tape that was used during shooting to hide sagging skin.

"Pee-wee doesn't work, to me, with age mixed into it," he went on to say. "So I knew I wanted digital retouching, and that was my biggest concern from the get-go, with Judd [Apatow], when it came to budgeting, because it costs a fortune. I could have had a facelift and we would have saved two million dollars."

Reubens isn't exaggerating.

Mashable did an in-depth piece in 2014 on the secret world of digital retouching in Hollywood, and a former studio executive admitted, "We were seeing hundreds of thousands spent on this, anywhere from $500 to $2,500 per shot — maybe more if there's a lot going into the scenes."

There are numerous shops in Hollywood that specifically do this kind of work. Sometimes they show up in the end credits, but often it's agreed upon that their work will not receive a shout-out.

In a business where vanity is almost a requirement to succeed, Reubens' comments are a shocking reminder of the lengths actors will go through to stay forever young in the public eye, especially when they are now seen in 4k.

Reubens told the New York Times Magazine that digital retouching is "a huge secret in Hollywood. People aren't really aware that stars have secret riders in their contracts" guaranteeing that a retoucher will come on during post-production to make sure their appearance will look timeless.

Here's the teaser for "Pee-wee's Big Holiday." He looks pretty good, huh?

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In case you missed it, Ok Go's new music video is literally out of this world. Ok, not literally, but it was shot in "zero gravity."

The pop band, known for its ambitious music videos, filmed its latest single "Upside Down and Inside Out" in a Russian reduced-gravity plane, which flies in a way that produces weightlessness, Rolling Stone reported. To prepare for the feat, the band trained for three weeks at ROSCOSMOS, Russia's equivalent of NASA.

"What you are about to see is real. We shot this in zero gravity, in an actual plane, in the sky. There are no wires or green screen," the video's opening reads. 

What it's like to fly in 'reduced gravity'

Several years ago, I had the chance to fly in a reduced gravity plane myself, as part of NASA's Microgravity University, a program where teams of college students design experiments and fly them aboard a special airplane nicknamed the "vomit comet."

And it's not called that for nothing — the human body doesn't always take kindly to floating around, and many people (not me, thankfully) get violently sick. Luckily, they give you anti-nausea drugs, and an air sickness bag, just in case.

The plane flies in arcs called parabolas, and since you and the plane are falling at the same rate, you don't feel like you're experiencing gravity. NASA refers to these flights as "reduced" or "micro" gravity, because you experience a mix of partial Gs at the top and bottom of each parabola known as dirty air.

On my flight, we did about 25 parabolas, and each one gives you only about 20 to 30 seconds of weightlessness. But Ok Go's 3-minute video appears to be one continuous take, thanks to some clever editing.

We were technically doing the zero-G flights to test our experiment — a system for manipulating droplets of fluid in zero G using sound waves — but I managed to get in a bit of play time. Still, 30 seconds in zero-G goes by surprisingly fast. Before you know it, the pilot is throttling back the plane to pull out of the dive, and you get the delightful experience of pulling two "Gs."

In Ok Go's video, the band members seem to effortlessly tumble about the plane, doing flips, aerial push ups, and other forms of synchronized acrobatics.

Two flight attendants even appear to get in on the fun:

From there, things just get even more absurd:

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After months of anticipation, Kanye West finally dropped his latest album, "The Life of Pablo," following a performance on "Saturday Night Live."

West announced that the album is not available anywhere except on Tidal for the next week, which sent his fans clamoring to listen to it over the music-streaming service.

West originally had the album available for sale as a download, from Tidal, as well as for streaming. But he quickly changed his mind, removing the ability for users to download it, but not before some had paid cash for a download of "The Life of Pablo" that never materialized.

It's still available for streaming, if you subscribe to Tidal, but there's no sign of the download, even for those who paid for it.

Furious customers took to Twitter to voice their frustration with Tidal:

Further inciting the anger are claims that Tidal has not been responsive to customers who have been charged money but have not received the download. Fans have been reporting that Tidal has not been answering some customers' support tickets.

This is not Tidal's first misstep with the release of a major album. In January, Tidal accidentally published Rihanna's new album "Anti" before it was set to go live. When it realized its mistake, it immediately removed the album, but not before some users were able to rip and share MP3s of the work, Newsweek reported.

Business Insider reached out to Tidal and will update this post when we hear back.

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The Grammys aren't one of the most important sartorial events on the calendar, but there's still opportunity to learn a thing or two.

Take, for example, one of the night's presenters: NFL linebacker Von Miller, crowned MVP of Super Bowl 50. He decided to wear a patterned blazer.

Not just any patterned blazer — a sparkly, silver paisley patterned blazer.

Observe:

Now, we at Business Insider are not going to knock the patterned blazer. There is a place and a time, and the Grammys in 2016 are probably as good a place and time as any.

What we are going to say is this: this particular blazer is one of the ugliest pieces of clothing we've ever seen at an awards show. It's attention-getting in the worst way possible: just for attention's sake.

The sparkles and swirls distract the eye, making it hard to take in the outfit as a whole, and ultimately doing it a disservice. The number one rule for wearing loud clothing is to make sure the rest of your outfit is subdued enough so that you don't look like a clown. A good rule of thumb is one loud or garish item per outfit, whether it's a patterned shirt, cool pants, or spiky shoes.

By pairing the patterned blazer with shiny blue tuxedo pants, his outfit is washed out in a sea of shininess.

Here's how he should have done it:

The above is Spanish actor and singer Miguel Angel Muñoz doing the patterned blazer correctly. The floral patterned blazer is paired with simple trousers and a plain black bow tie, so nothing distracts from the centerpiece.

It's much easier on the eye and looks way more elegant and black-tie appropriate.

Had Miller toned down his blazer choice, he may have been one of the best-dressed guys at the show. As it was, he was just painful to look at. 

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Forget a set age range, or a specific year or event — where you stand on Kanye West is what makes you either a young millennial or an old millennial.

All of that was in high def over the last week, when Kanye debuted his new album, showed some raggedy clothing at Fashion Week, and tweeted a bunch of unhinged stuff at Mark Zuckerberg and about Bill Cosby for all our attention.

All of this stuff was Snapchatted and tweeted and shared all over the web to the entertainment of some — and the straight-up eye-roll of others.

And that is where Kanye divides us millennials — in whether he is entertainment or just a cliche.

The cliche camp

In 2004, when Kanye West released "The College Dropout," he was a cocky but lovable fresh voice with a popped collar and an ego. His subsequent few albums were thoughtful musings on fame, family, and lesser rappers. Murakami happened, Kanye represented that in his style. Heartbreak happened, Kanye brought out a new sound.

And then things got dark. Kanye's statements started getting more absurd. There was the Taylor Swift VMAs incident — one of those things where maybe the sentiment was in the right place but the message could've been communicated a lot better.

As Kanye's success grew, so did his erratic, annoying behavior. He became a cliche of the successful egomaniac who is never satisfied with praise. These people need constant attention and affirmation. Everything is done with bravado. These people are annoying, and they live under the mistaken perception that everything in their lives should matter to everyone.

In fact, they live to make everything in their life matter to everyone. It's the only way they feel whole. So Kanye married the most followed person in the world, and there you go. The man screaming for attention gets more, still needs more.

Which brings us to the divide.

Amuse me

Kanye didn't have to be this way. He didn't have to be the kind of tantrum-throwing pop star who is angry while they're on top, shouting about how no one understands him as people buy his album and sneakers and family life.

But he is. And to new eyes — to people who didn't experience the sherbet-colored polos of the early 2000s — he fits in the with the voyeurism of 2016. He's married to the Kardashian phenomena, after all. He provides endless entertainment online for those seeking it.

And to these younger followers, perhaps the over-dramatic gestures, even the musical ones, are at least something to talk about. Having a meltdown on Twitter is just as ridiculous as using an iconic song about black struggle — "Strange Fruit," which he sampled for "Blood on the Leaves" on the "Yeezus" album — to express how angry he is about someone hitting on his wife.

It's the difference between the "Jesus Walks" video and the "Bound 2" video, really.

Kanye West is pop culture's Putin, a king attention-seeker in a time when attention-seeking has become the norm. And that's fine. That means he serves a bunch of people who are into that.

But they aren't all people. And certainly not all millennials. The establishment is still raising an eyebrow at this behavior and anyone who feeds it. For example, New York magazine called Anna Wintour, the most powerful woman in fashion, "a Kardashian accessory" for sitting in Kanye's camp during his fashion show.

Brutal.

It's a reflection of how nauseated Kanye's behavior makes some people feel. Some of them are millennials, too, because they know Yeezy didn't really have to go down like this. They remember another possibility.

Sometimes it's just too hard to watch.

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HBO is taking a couple of cues from Netflix by ramping up production of original shows and accelerating its international expansion, parent company Time Warner announced on its Q4 2015 earnings call last week.

This chart from Statista shows why. Although HBO is still way ahead of Netflix in terms of worldwide subscribers, it's fallen behind in annual subscription revenue. Meanwhile, Netflix isn't standing still: its content chief Ted Sarandos recently said that the company's“goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.”

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While Taylor Swift's team put out a statement calling Kanye West's "Famous" verse about her "misogynistic," the pop star herself stayed silent for four days while the feud reached a boiling point.

It wasn't until Monday night, at her acceptance speech for the Album of the Year Grammy — the biggest award of the night — that Swift personally addressed the diss.

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Kanye West's new album "The Life of Pablo" had 500,000 downloads on its first day alone, according to TorrentFreak, which would have been enough to certify it as "gold" if those downloads were from iTunes or official sales. 

The problem? Those were illegal downloads on BitTorrent, and Kanye didn't see a single dime from them.

So far, the only place you can legally listen to the new album is Tidal, Jay Z's streaming service, where it remains an exclusive.

And that might not change any time soon. Kanye has declared that he will never sell his album — on iTunes or anywhere else.

“My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale… You can only get it on Tidal,” Kanye wrote in a tweet over the weekend.

This presents a problem for fans, and highlights a big problem with streaming exclusives in general. While Tidal does include the option for a 30-day free trial, or even a 90-day one if you know where to look, many people have taken to social media to voice their frustration with the release process, and have strongly implied that they downloaded the album illegally because they can't easily buy it. Plenty of people would be willing to pay for the album up front, but they don't want to have to sign up for a new streaming service in order to do so.

TorrentFreak said it had observed 10,000 people sharing a copy of a particular "TLOP" torrent simultaneously: "something we haven't seen with a music release before."

But that doesn't mean Kanye's rollout should immediately be considered a failure. The release of "TLOP" shot Tidal up to the top of the app download charts, and we don't know what kind of deal Kanye got for giving it exclusively to Tidal.

One clue: Kanye tweeted that Tidal is "funding a lot of my scripted content ideas."

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