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Kanye West has changed three songs on his album Tidal.
The 38-year-old rapper released his album exclusively via the music streaming service - launched by his friend Jay Z - in February but now he has re-worked some of the songs saying his music is "living breathing" art.
He wrote on Twitter "Fixing Wolves 2day ... Worked on it for 3 weeks. Life Of Pablo is a living breathing changing creative expression. #contemporaryart (sic)"
Track 'Famous' now contains additional vocal layering for Rhianna's hook , 'Wolves', now has more prominent contributions from Vic Mensa and Sia, and Frank Ocean debuts on brand new song 'Frank's Track', a 38-second extension of 'Wolves' that contains his part from the original track.
Kanye is remaining in the studio and has already teased his next album will be called 'Turbo Grafx 16'.
He took to Twitter and joked his next musical offering will be named after a computer games console from the 1980s that he loved as a child.
He previously tweeted: "My next album is titled "Turbo Grafx 16" as of now... (sic)"
However, he seemed to back track, swiftly adding: "Just on some super nerd vibes ... one of my favourite gaming systems when I was a kid... (sic)"
Kanye - who is married to Kim Kardashian West - added: "Excited to see my family and finish the final mixes of the Life of Pablo and keep working on Turbo Grafx 16 and Season 4... sic)"

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie believes streaming services have "destroyed" the music industry.
The 53-year-old musician thinks apps like Spotify has stopped fans from wanting to purchase records.
He said: "A guy here at the record company got me a Spotify account for free because I did a playlist for them.
"When the Savages album came out and I didn't have a chance to get to the record store, I listened to the first half on there and then a couple of weeks later, I went and bought the album. But the digital thing has destroyed music."
The 'Where The Light Gets In' hitmaker's teenage son streams music too but Bobby doesn't blame him as it's "just the culture they were born into".
He added: "He streams [music] but he also watches YouTube. He loves music but he wouldn't buy it. It's just the culture they were born into.
"You can't turn it back but as an artist, I have to try and express myself and the best way to do that is to make albums."
And Bobby claims he isn't able to earn much money "from my hard work and my art anymore".
He told BBC News: "It's impossible to earn a living from making records unless you're Adele.
"At the level we're at and a lot of other people are at, you've just got to get out and play lots of gigs, but it means the gig circuit is choc-a-block."

Good Charlotte have written a song with Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil for their new LP.
The 'Makeshift Love' hitmakers are making their comeback with their sixth studio album later this year - the follow-up to 2010's 'Cardiology' - and have revealed their collaboration with the 'Mountains' rocker which they are very excited for their fans to hear.
Good Charlotte vocalist Joel Madden revealed: "This needed to be more than just a throwback, but it pulls in all our favourite parts of all the records we've made from the high-energy pop-punk stuff to straight-up pop. It's got the heaviest song we've ever done, called 'War', and we even co-wrote a song on their with Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro."
Good Charlotte - which also includes Joel's twin brother Benji Madden, Billy Martin, Paul Thomas and Dean Butterworth - feel like a completely new band and hope this new record will show they are a "positive force" on the music scene.
Benji told Rock Sound magazine: "It feels brand new again. I want this band to live like it did in the beginning of our career, before some of the love got beaten out of us. This should be a destination for the misfits who don't have anywhere else to go, something that can encourage other artists to collaborate and look out for each other. We want to be a positive force in the industry."
Good Charlotte's new album will be released this summer.

Grimes was electrocuted on stage at her concert in Dublin last night (15.03.16).
The 'Oblivion' singer was performing at the Olympia Theatre in the Irish capital when halfway through her set her guitar pedal developed a fault which caused her to suffer a mild electric shock.
In a Twitter post that has since been deleted, she wrote: "Dublin! 1 mil apologies that my pedal failed and I was electrocuted, but there are tears in my eyes that y'all were so so wonderful (sic)"
Grimes - whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher - later reassured fans that she was fine by responding to their comments on her Twitter account on Wednesday morning (16.03.16).
A concerned fan with the Twitter handle @iProvmusic wrote: "@Grimezsz amazing show in Dublin tonight, travelled all night from Cork ... so worth it, hope you are ok x (sic)"
And Grimes replied: "@iProvmusic i am fine - thank u for travelling !!! (sic)"
The pink-haired beauty also promised she'll return to Dublin for another gig.
She told a fan: "@LaurenceMackin hell yah, I need to come back any way to visit castles ... If y'all will have me back I badly wanna play a proper set (sic)"
Grimes, 27, is set to play Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival next month and will then head out on a world tour which includes shows in America, Britain and Europe.

Kanye West and Ellie Goulding have teamed up with Mumford & Sons to make an LP called 'Metamorphoses'.
The project is being helmed by Mumford keyboardist Ben Lovett and the Global Citizen organisation's co-founder Hugh Evans, who will produce the overall release that will also feature The National.
The 'All Day' rapper and 'Army' hitmaker have the challenge of sourcing lyrics for the album from their fans and then creating songs from the submissions.
Explaining the compilation in a statement, Ben said: "'Metamorphoses' has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard.
"Artists like Kanye West and The National are doing something globally important that is touching people down to their DNA. And these masterfully creative people are going to be interpreting incredible submissions from people across the globe."
The album is to have 12 songs in total and more artists are yet to be confirmed to be a part of the campaign.
The aim of the record is to help put an end to poverty around the world.
Fans can submit their lyrics to www.globalcitizen.org.
It's expected to be released this autumn.

Deadmau5 is hosting his own show on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio.
The Canadian electronic music producer-and-DJ - whose real name is Joel Thomas Zimmerman - will be debuting his show 'mau5trap presents' on the online 24-hour station this Friday (18.03.16).
His show was announced by the Beats 1 team via Twitter with the tweet: "HERE WE GO. @deadmau5 is coming to #Beats1 (sic)"
The show is expected to have a focus on electronic music although it is currently unclear if this will be a one off performance or an ongoing project.
Deadmau5, 39, has previously supported Jay Z's streaming service Tidal, but this latest move sees him reunite with Apple, with whom he has supported at the iTunes Music Festival in 2012 and 2014.
Beats 1 host Zane Lowe believes the Apple Music radio station appeals to artists because they have complete creative freedom to play what they want on their shows.
He said: "We don't tell any artist what to play, never ever put any creative restraint on what they want to do. The whole conversation just goes, 'Play what you want, do what you want. We're here to do any heavy lifting you want, but it's your vision, enjoy.' So that it's really quality, really consistent and it's just not boring."
Deadmau5 follows in the headphones of other stars Dr. Dre, Pharrell Williams, Major Lazer and Haim, who've all had shows on Beats 1.

James Bay is interested in collaborating with Justin Bieber.
The 'Best Fake Smile' hitmaker performed with Bieber at the BRIT Awards last month and admits he could easily imagine writing a song with the 22-year-old pop superstar, just like their mutual friend Ed Sheeran did.
James said: "Ed wrote that song ('Love Yourself') with him, so I wouldn't rule anything out. That's as about as much as I can say. I'm not one to rule anything out."
James and Justin became friends after meeting at a private after-party held after the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in October and the 25-year-old musician previously described the 'Sorry' hitmaker as a "charming little lad".
Aside from collaborations, James has been thinking about his follow-up to his 2015 debut LP 'Chaos and the Calm' and wants he gets his live shows out of the way he is going to "knuckle down" and get working on a new collection of tracks.
He told Digital Spy: "I'm thinking about it all the time. I've never really been able to stop thinking about it since I finished the first one! When am I going to get time to really knuckle down and start producing some stuff? Hopefully at the end of this year. I can't really talk about it being any earlier than that, but I don't really want to start any later. I really want to get down to it and dig my heels in."

Butch Vig says Garbage have created some "crazy moments" on their new album 'Strange Little Birds'.
The 60-year-old drummer has opened up about the band's sixth studio album which the group - also consisting of Shirley Manson, Steve Marker and Duke Erikso - have self-produced, and admits its unlike anything they've ever recorded before and has a "vulnerable" sound.
He explained to Billboard magazine: "I think it's quite different for us. It's very cinematic and there are a lot of sonic moments on the record that are not necessarily typical Garbage. We sort of took the rock out and de-constructed the songs, made them more vulnerable-sounding.
"Some moments get completely crazy, completely blown out. I think it's one of those records people are going to listen to the first time and go, 'Wow, what was that?' They're gonna need to hear it a couple times to get into it. But we're really happy with it. We hope Garbage fans will find it as interesting as we do."
'Strange Little Birds' - Garbage's first album since 2012's 'Not Your Kind of People' - is made up of 11 tracks and will be released on June 10 via the band's STUNVOLUME label.
Frontwoman Shirley has previously stated the songs remind her of the tracks on their self-titled 1995 debut.
She said: "To me, this record, funnily enough, has the most to do with the first record than any of the previous records. It's getting back to that beginner's head space."

Nathan Sykes didn't think he was right for a boy band.
The 'Over and Over Again' hitmaker - who found fame as part of chart-topping group The Wanted - admits he wasn't keen on auditioning when he found out it was for a boy band as he didn't want to be "air-grabbing [and] standing up on the key change".
He explained: "At school, when an audition came in for you, your name would get highlighted on the list. Literally, the whole of Year 11, which was like 10 people, was highlighted. So, there's an audition for a boyband. I was like, 'No, no'. I imagined old school boybands: everyone in the same clothes, air-grabbing, standing up on the key change ...
"Sylvia [Young] was like, 'You need to do this. You're not going to regret it.' I was 16 and most the guys auditioning were at least 21. There was no way on planet Earth I'm gonna get this."
The 22-year-old singer believes singing Stevie Wonder's 'Lately' in his audition secured his place in the group.
He added to FUSE TV: "That was the audition that got me in the band. They liked the confidence I had to walk in and sing a song like that."