Kanye West despatched the beat for “New Body” to Doja Cat and Ice Spice after Nicki Minaj turned it down.
According to textual content messages leaked by Ye’s for staff member, YesJulz, on Tuesday (March 19), Ye apparently wrote that he despatched the observe to each artists talked about above to see “who sounds best.”
“I am not an influencer,” she wrote within the caption. “I am a manager, producer, host, A&R, consultant, friend, and most importantly, an honest, loyal, and hard-working single mother.”
YesJulz (actual identify Julianne Goddard) didn’t specify why precisely she was leaking the texts within the first place. Check it out beneath:
Kanye West’s “New Body” was despatched to Ice Spice & Doja Cat to switch Nicki Minaj pic.twitter.com/7azwybTLE5
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) March 19, 2024
Kanye West lately revealed that he’s taking YesJulz to courtroom for allegedly violating her NDA as he ready to hit her with an $8 million invoice.
In an Instagram Story posted by Ye final week, he revealed that he has filed what is named a Notice of Intent to Arbitrate Before the Judicate, which is a precursor to a lawsuit. In it, he claims his ex-employee “repeatedly, intentionally, and grossly” violated the phrases of their non-disclosure settlement (NDA), which in flip prompted the lawsuit.
“To say Goddard suffers from a lack of impulse control would be to excuse her from responsibility for behavior that is hurtful, hateful and destructive; it is to give her pattern of mendacious, malicious, manipulative outbursts a pass,” he claimed, noting that the alleged damages have been “in excess of $8 million.”
Kanye West fired Goddard and fined her almost $8 million over NDA violations, after which she publicized a sequence of damaging messages from a senior member of his staff.
The rapper and producer lower ties together with her final week, writing on his Instagram Stories: “We have decided to no longer have YesJulz involved in the rollout of Vultures. All the activity on her page and with our fans in the past few days has been unauthorized.”
An e-mail purportedly written by Yeezy chief of workers and far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos that was despatched to the influencer was leaked quickly after.
“Dear Ms. Goddard, enclosed please find a letter and statement of account from your time with Yeezy. Fines incurred to date as a result of your NDA violations come to $7.7m,” the e-mail learn.
“While you were a contractor, I suspended enforcement of this debt. It now falls due. Hassan from the compliance team will reach out with information about payment. Please note that any further violations will accrue more fines.
“Because you are being terminated for cause but also because you forgot to sign your contract your termination is effective immediately.”
In a follow-up e-mail, he wrote: “Obviously, you are fired.”