Kanye West Sued After Allegedly Calling Employees ‘New Slaves’

Kanye West Sued After Allegedly Calling Employees ‘New Slaves’

The rapper has been accused of fostering a hostile work environment while developing a music app.

Kanye West and his former team leader, Milo Yiannopouloswere accused of fostering a hostile work environment.

According to the document obtained by TMZ (via NME), the rapper wanted to create an app, called YZYVSN, to promote his albums Vultures It is Vultures 2. That way, he wouldn’t have to pay rival companies like Tidal, Spotify and Apple Music.

To put the plan into practice, Kanye “hired” adults and minors and formed a group of developers.

West It is Yiannopoulos they allegedly forced employees — a group that included many black people and children under the age of 14 — to work for several hours without receiving pay or being able to sleep.

The managers, who were singled out as white, were also accused of using inappropriate language against foreigners and other minority workers.

In message boards, bosses commonly referred to employees as “slaves” or “new slaves.”

Furthermore, Bianca Censorwife of Westallegedly sent pornography to the team. Although she is not named as a defendant, the document shows that she sent the link with the content when Kanye announced the launch of an adult film company.

Officials claim that Yiannopoulous promised $120,000 in payment upon completion of the application, provided they agreed to the working conditions without complaints.

Even so, West would have asked them to sign a Confidentiality Agreement, threatening to fire underage employees and withhold their payments if they did not agree.

The app would have been delivered on May 1st, but West It is Yiannopoulous They did not pay their employees for their work. Therefore, they decided to seek redress through the courts.

Source: Rollingstone

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