Kanye West Co. Sued Over ‘New Slaves’ Allegations, Bianca Allegedly Dispatched Porn to Employees

Kanye West created an app to advertise his rap music, fostering a racist surroundings with brutal work situations – whereas his spouse, Bianca Censoridispatched porn movies to employees which have been accessible by minors, in accordance with a brand new lawsuit.

The bombshell swimsuit, filed in a US District Court docket, named Ye and his former chief of employees, Milo Yiannopoulosas defendants.

The swimsuit lightens Kanye and co. engaged in “compelled labor and merciless inhuman, or degrading remedy.”

The 2 have been accused of constructing false guarantees to pay their grownup and minor workers and forcing them to work insanely long hours as they have been brazenly mocked with racist jabs and known as “new slaves.”

It began in the spring of 2024 when Ye determined to launch the YZYVSN streaming service app to rival Tidal, Spotify and Apple Music. The swimsuit says Ye wished to keep away from paying these corporations to advertise his new albums, “Vultures” and “Vultures 2.”

So, he and Milo allegedly employed a global developer group comprised of a number of Black members, which additionally included underage teenagers as younger as 14.

The docs say the workers principally labored remotely, staying in fixed communication with Ye, Milo and their workforce through the use of digital and on-line communication purposes comparable to Discord, Zoom and Slack.

In April 2024, the docs say, Milo promised to pay $120,000 to the developer group after they accomplished the app in the event that they agreed to the work situations and did not complain.

However, issues shortly went downhill … the swimsuit says Ye ordered all workers to signal non-disclosure agreements, threatening to fire the minors and refusing to pay them in the event that they did not. Minor builders have been additionally required to signal “volunteer” agreements.

Then Ye’s white managers who oversaw the international and minority staff allegedly used disparaging language to create a hostile work surroundings.

In group chats, the Caucasian managers used harassing language towards the underlings with regard to their age, race, gender, sexual orientation and national origin. Some workforce members have been known as “slaves” whereas others have been known as “new slaves.”

The docs say Milo as soon as dispatched a chat message with a Black/brown pores and skin emoji to an African American workforce member, whereas calling a young employee a faculty shooter. The staff were further bullied into working long hours in the evening with out pay or sleep.

Then, in late April, Ye introduced he was launching a grown-up movie biz known as “Yeezy Porn,” along with his spouse Bianca sending one employee a file-sharing hyperlink containing hardcore sexual exercise, in accordance with the docs. Minors weren’t shielded from viewing the smut movies as they developed Ye’s porn app. Bianca is not named as a defendant.

On May 1, 2024, after an intense rush to deliver the app, the workforce allegedly offered Ye with one of many completed apps, but it’s surely not clear within the docs which one. Ye and Milo allegedly by no means paid the workers for his or her laborious work, main them to file the lawsuit.

The swimsuit is asking for damages for unpaid wages and extra time pay, in addition to emotional misery.