Nope. According to HDD Jay z had some rich billionaire fork out the money for him( ? Okay am not sure about this part like am not even sure if Jay Z actually technically owns Tidal or not ). Anyway it was said here:
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The prevailing view is that most if not all of the $56m cost of the purchase (Jay famously doesn’t use his own money for entrepreneurial ventures) was put up by SoftBank, whose CEO Masayoshi Son is Japan’s richest man, with a reported net worth of $13.7 billion.