Kanye West and Bianca Censori must be pretty stressed out these days, what with multiple lawsuits currently against Ye that name-drop her and an unfulfilled album trilogy. But they were ready to just relax amid the maelstrom and have some educational and intellectually curious fun at a science museum. Moreover, the couple visited San Francisco’s Exploratorium on Thursday (Fourth of July), hitting up mirror exhibits, taking all the knowledge in, and strolling through the premises like us regular folk. Reportedly, according to TMZ, most people left them to their privacy, and the Chicago rapper donned an an almost all-white ensemble that made him look like an astronaut as his wife wore a blue strapless top, leggings, and heels.
Furthermore, this visit seemed like a pretty fun one, and hopefully Kanye West and Bianca Censori enjoyed it before getting right back to accountability issues. However, the lawsuits aren’t the only thing that drummed up some controversy as of late, as a recent Moscow visit turned a lot of heads. In fact, this even led the nation of Ukraine to deem Ye as an enemy of their people, considering the conflict that Russia engaged them with over the past several years. Somehow, it’s not the wildest crossover into politics we’ve seen from him.
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 19: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) (L-R) Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the Prototypes Menswear Spring/Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 19, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images)
In addition, fans are recently looking at old Kanye West comments about Nicki Minaj during a lecture that comprised of heaps of praise. “One of the most memorable things about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was Nicki Minaj,” he recalled. “And the fact that she kicked my a** on my song. On one of the best albums… the best album.” Considering the state of their collaborative bond now, fans long for simpler days.
Meanwhile, Kanye West’s former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos reportedly took further steps to blast the new lawsuit against them from former employees. He claimed that Bianca Censori denied sending adult content to an app development team member who was a minor, as the lawsuit alleges. We have no idea whether or not this case will make the whole court circuit or if these parties will be able to reach an agreement. Either way, we’re sure it’s far from the last wild Ye story that will emerge this year, so quaint moments like a museum visit are a welcome break, photos of which you can see with the “Via” link down below.
According to various Russian media outlets, Kanye West arrived in Moscow this week for collaborator and designer Gosha Rubchinskiy’s birthday. While this is all still a little bit unclear, new photos and videos show him apparently arriving at a Four Seasons hotel along with some other footage of his arrival. Whether Ye has other plans in Russia or not is a mystery, but we know that there’s plenty of hot topics to debate and discuss with this visit. Many called him out for appointing Rubchinskiy as Yeezy’s head of design last year due to the Russian designer’s alleged history of soliciting explicit pictures from minors.
Furthermore, this news arrives amid a new lawsuit against Kanye West and his former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos. They stand accused of exploiting an app development team’s labor through unfulfilled payments and excessively long shifts into the night, racial discrimination and other forms of prejudice, and showing pornographic content to them despite some of the team being minors. It’s all a pretty nasty array of accusations to which neither party has responded publicly at press time. We’ll see whether or not these international visits are to merely distract from legal scrutiny or indicate that Ye will want to stay elsewhere.
In addition, Kanye West also faces a sexual harassment lawsuit from a former Yeezy employee who made some very serious claims. Not only that, but there were even some alleged text message exchanges supposedly presented as evidence in the lawsuit’s filing. He plans to combat this in court with a countersuit, making his own claims against the former employee. Whether it’s within music, the legal system, or cultural sensitivity, there’s a whole lot of controversy to go around.
Nevertheless, fans think that Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s VULTURES 2could still arrive one day, and that would at least dampen some of the public impact of these lawsuits. Maybe he will continue to work on the album in Moscow or he was just feeling like saying hi to his friend on his special day. Regardless, there’s too much to properly digest on the Ye train right now, a sadly common fact. We’ll see what comes of all this and whether there are any links between these different narratives.
Kanye West is facing yet another lawsuit and this one went against him and his former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos in U.S. District Court, according to new legal documents reportedly obtained by TMZ. Moreover, it accuses them of subjecting their employees to “forced labor and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” specifically those that formed part of the YZYVSN development team. For those unaware, that’s an app that Ye wanted to use to distribute VULTURES 1 and future installments instead of using streaming services like Spotify, and he also planned a porn venture that apparently is now scrapped. Regardless, he and Yiannopoulos allegedly abused their power over this development team in a very exploitative manner.
Furthermore, Kanye West and his former chief of staff hired an international developer group of various Black tech wizzes, a few of which were as young as 14 years old. The lawsuit accuses Ye and his colleague of falsely promising payment for these employees, forcing excessively long shifts through the night with no pay, and engaging in racist jabs and demeaning rhetoric. For example, they allegedly called some employees “new slaves,” a reference to the Chicago artist’s 2013 Yeezus track and a horrible way to treat your co-workers. According to court documents, this development team mostly worked remotely via platforms like Zoom and Slack.
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 19: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) (L-R) Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the Prototypes Menswear Spring/Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 19, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images)
Then, in April of 2024 (about a month into the possible YZYVSN launch), Milo Yiannopoulos allegedly promised to pay the team $120K. This would be after they completed the app’s development and under the condition of both no complaints and full agreement concerning work conditions. Kanye West allegedly demanded NDAs from all of them and threatened to fire and not pay them if they didn’t sign, which complicated things. Minor developers had to sign “volunteer” agreements, according to court docs. In addition, white managers overseeing the operation would allegedly disparage employees with racist remarks and other attacks on their identity, such as Yiannopoulos sending a Black team member a Black emoji and calling a younger employee a school shooter.
Meanwhile, another bombshell claim concerns the inception of “Yeezy Porn” in late April of 2024, which Yiannopoulos actually resigned over. Kanye West’s wife Bianca Censori allegedly sent someone in the app development team a file-sharing link with hardcore adult content, which the minors were allegedly not shielded from viewing. However, it’s important to note that Censori is not a defendant in this case. On May 1, the team allegedly showed one of the finished apps to Ye, although it’s unclear which one, and the lack of payment is what led to this lawsuit. The team seeks damages for unpaid wages, overtime pay, and emotional distress. At press time, no public response has emerged.
Rich The Kid, Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Gimme A Second 2” is hyping up Rich’s new album. But it’s also contributing to the ever-present tension between Ye and his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Moreover, in his verse, he blasts Kim for hiring a “manny” to provide a stronger and more present male influence. “My oldest said, ‘Daddy not going to Heaven,’” the Chicago artist raps on the cut. “Treat me like a deadbeat, said I wasn’t present / They was tryna treat a king like a peasant / They bought my son a new dad like it’s no headache / Don’t give a f**k about s**t, I’m irreverent.”
“I do think that my household, and even in our family, it’s very female-dominated,” Kim Kardashian said of this decision during the current season of The Kardashians. She continued: “I recently hired a manny, I really wanted a male around that was going to be picking them up and taking them to sports. I was scared out of my mind to tell their dad that.” Clearly, that fear manifested into a Kanye West verse, although things reportedly didn’t seem so bad at the onset.
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“When he was dropping off the kids, Kanye introduced himself. Played two-on-two with Saint and him, has been so nice to him,” Kim Kardashian revealed. “Saying, ‘Hey, if you’re going to help raise my son – because he handed him the ball really easily – don’t do that, make him go get it himself. These are some of the rules that I would want.’” It’s a curious, albeit precedented, change of heart and double-edged sword that prompts connection and jealousy.
Meanwhile, Kanye West is busy with his wife Bianca Censori… and with a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. It’s a pretty turbulent time in the Yeezy universe right now, but then again, what else is new? It will be interesting to see whether this change in family dynamic will cause more rifts or chill things out. Our best wishes have the latter in mind.
When you hear “performance,” you would assume that it’s an artist doing whatever they did in their music in a live setting, but Kanye West might be the biggest artist alive who’s actively challenging that definition. Moreover, a clip recently surfaced of him “performing” at a Japanese pro wrestling event, although he was just in the ring miming “CARNIVAL” to the crowd. Still, we can’t criticize too much; after all, seeing Ye (even with his currently misguided and tarnished public-facing persona) is seeing Ye. Some other reports on the matter suggest that Alexander Wang organized this event over the weekend with Joshi promotion TJPW and that Ty Dolla $ign was in attendance, as well.
Furthermore, this was a bizarre thing for folks to witness online with no context, but it seems like folks had a great time nonetheless. Of course, Kanye West has a lot to deal with whenever he returns to the United States, although he’s probably handling that wherever he goes. A former Yeezy employee recently sued him for alleged sexual harassment, and other allegations emerged about his supposed misconduct. It included a lot of salacious claims accusing Ye of making non-consensual sexual advances and sending inappropriate texts and images.
As far as the music side of things, Kanye West is in some hot water right now for much more light, but almost equally disseminated reasons. If you didn’t catch it online over the past few days, Rich The Kid previewed what’s presumably a verse from Ye for the “Gimme A Second” remix off of Rich’s upcoming album, Life’s A Gamble. There was a particularly bad “sexist” bar somewhere in there that was a hot topic on sites like Twitter for a second. But just like with most of the Chicago artist’s many antics, folks quickly moved onto something else.
Meanwhile, we still have very little idea of how the aforementioned sexual harassment lawsuit will develop. Kanye West plans to countersue the former Yeezy employee and denied any and all wrongdoing via his legal team. As such, maybe this could turn into a nasty court battle or they will reach a private settlement. Either way, it’s a blemish on an already chaotic 2024 with as many highs as lows in many fans’ eyes.
Kanye West’s lyricism has been a pretty hot topic of debate all throughout his career, but especially in recent years in many fans’ eyes… or ears, we should say. Moreover, there’s now a new conversation around his bars that isn’t like the old days of his raunchy and self-aware narcissism on albums like The College Dropout. Rather, many online believe that Ye punches under his weight these days, and the latest case study in that is a previewed feature verse on a remix of Rich The Kid’s “Gimme A Second” off his upcoming new album Life’s A Gamble, dropping on Friday, June 28. “I need to see if the sex good, I’m a sexist,” he raps at one point.
Of course, a lot of fans thought this line was just plain funny, but a whole lot more thought that this was just corny or straight-up weak. Hopefully Life’s A Gamble has some other lyrical highlights, but to be fair, we don’t actually know if this Kanye West collab will show up on the tracklist. As such, maybe it won’t be that big of a deal, especially as we’re unclear whether more VULTURES installments will ever come out. We know that he was in the studio with Young Moose recently, but he and Ty Dolla $ign aren’t as heavily on the VULTURES train these days, it seems. Maybe that changes soon…
Beyond Kanye West’s lyricism, Rich The Kid also added another detail to his new album announcement: the launch of a new cryptocurrency. It seems like he’s really in a heavy rollout mode right now, one that he hasn’t been in on this scale in a while. Life’s A Gamble is looking less like a gamble with each new bit of info we get, albeit with the reverse connotation when it comes to the Yeezy mogul. It’s not much of a gamble to say that, if this verse drops, folks won’t look at it with any less skepticism.
Meanwhile, Kanye West is dealing with way more important and harrowing stuff right now that he could face accountability for if true. A sexual harassment lawsuit from a former employee brought a lot of claims forward. Not only that, but artist Niykee Heaton also accused him and Diddy of assault. We’ll see what happens in this realm, and whether or not it has a tangible impact on any potential future releases.
Happy birthday to North West, who turns 11 today (Saturday, June 15) and may have celebrated by painting some KAWS figurines with Kai Cenat. Moreover, the streamer posted a picture of them together in an art studio to his Instagram Story today, with her VULTURES 1 feature “TALKING” playing in the background. It’s unclear whether this is an old picture, a more recent one, or a brand-new one from today, and while there isn’t any birthday message or more elaboration on their meeting, one can connect the dots. Hopefully the streamer and the Lion King actress had a good time.
However, many fans on social media and in the comments section of the IG post below remarked on how Kanye West might not be a fan of this. After all, he and Kai Cenat have had their differences in the past, namely when Ye sent the New Yorker Yeezy merch that was too big for him. They then had a bit of a weird spat online that even involved the Chicago artist’s manager, and Cenat clearly never really wanted to take things that far. But things seem to be in a much better place right now, with the “BURN” MC sending him more well-fitting clothes in late April.
Elsewhere, Kai Cenat has had a lot of fun during his sleepover stream with Druski and Kevin Hart, and folks are absolutely loving their content together. There have been a lot of funny moments, one of the most notable of which was Hart clowning the Twitch giant with a “Not Like Us” remix. Overall, though, there is simply too much to summarize, so we’d recommend going through a nice Twitter scroll to see some highlights… and lowlights, admittedly. But aren’t those the funniest sometimes?
Jokes aside, Kai Cenat isn’t the only contemporary celebrity that North West has met recently. She and her mom Kim Kardashian also linked up with WNBA rookie darling Cameron Brink at the season’s opening game. Maybe one day we will see the North and Kai stream and continue this Gen Z-ish bond. But we’re sure that Ye will have something to say about it if he sees it on Twitch.
More alleged details continue to emerge about Kanye West’s alleged sexual harassment and the lawsuit against him from former Yeezy employee Lauren Pisciotta. This time around, new reports explain how she claims that he expressed insecurity over having a small penis through inappropriate messages, pictures, and videos to her. In one alleged incident, Ye sent Pisciotta a video of him receiving oral sex from a model, and then asked her if he should edit the clip to make his member look big enough. In another alleged example, he sent her a cropped video of him having sex with another Yeezy employee and said his penis didn’t look big enough to send to one of his friends, which is why he cropped it out of the frame.
Furthermore, Lauren Pisciotta also claimed that Kanye West boasted about taking Viagra and having sex with an unidentified A-list celebrity for three hours. This adds onto other claims that emerged about his alleged behavior, although some of them are not necessarily damning, but rather a very personal alleged revelation about his sexual proclivities. For example, many have interpreted some of Ye’s alleged inappropriate texts to Pisciotta as exhibiting cuckold behavior. While these could be relevant elements, the important thing to focus on is whether or not he sexually harassed his former employee based on the messages and interactions between them.
LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 21: Kanye West spotted on March 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
For those unaware, Lauren Pisciotta also sued Kanye West for wrongful termination and breach of contract. She started working for Yeezy in 2021 as an assistant, and Ye fired her in 2022. “Ye will be filing a lawsuit against Ms. Pisciotta, who actively pursued him sexually to coerce employment and other material benefits, then engaged in blackmail and extortion when [he rejected] her advances,” his legal team expressed in its allegation-denying and counter-suing retort.
“Prior to her termination as an assistant, Ms. Pisciotta stole his cell phone in an attempt to destroy phone records that would contradict her claims, all of which [they] preserved,” Kanye West’s camp’s claims continued. “She was terminated for being unqualified, demanding unreasonable sums of money (including a $4 million annual salary) and numerous documented incidents of her lascivious, unhinged conduct.”
Kanye West found himself in the news for negative reasons after singer-songwriter Niykee Heaton accused him and Diddy of sexually assaulting her and her former manager, Lauren Pisciotta. Niykee’s allegations came days after Lauren, Kanye’s former assistant, filed a lawsuit against him. In Lauren’s lawsuit, she accused Kanye of sexual harassment, contract breach, and wrongful termination. Lauren claimed Kanye sent her lewd texts and masturbated while speaking to her on the phone. She also accused the rapper of pleasuring himself in front of her after trapping her in a private room on his plane.
However, Kanye countersued Lauren. In his suit, the rapper denied her allegations against him, tagging them as “baseless” and backed by ulterior motives. Kanye’s legal representative accused Lauren of “blackmail and extortion” after he allegedly turned down her sexual advances. Days after the countersuit, Lauren’s former associate and singer, Niykee, went on Instagram Live to make startling allegations against Kanye and Diddy. During the live session, she also corroborated Lauren’s claims. Find out more about Niykee’s allegations below.
Niykee is a singer-songwriter who found fame after being discovered via her YouTube channel, where she posted acoustic guitar covers of notable hip-hop songs. She released her debut single, “Bad Intentions,” in 2014. The song made it to the Billboard charts and was certified gold by the RIAA. She also has an EPtitled Bad Intentions and a mixtape, The Bedroom Tour Playlist, which she released in 2016, a year after going on The Bedroom Tour. In 2018, she released another EP titled Starting Over.
During her Instagram Live, Niykee claimed Lauren Pisciotta was her manager. She said they fell out because they were in two different places. Niykee explained that she almost lost her love for music after her negative experiences. However, Lauren was more into the business side of music and kept going until she realized some things for herself.
Why Did Niykee Come Forward With Her Allegations Now?
Niykee revealed she didn’t want to tell her story before because she felt no one would believe her. However, recent happenings in the industry pushed her to speak out. Niykee also said that after Lauren’s lawsuit against Kanye West, many people said she was lying. Those comments angered Niykee, spurring her to come forward with her story.
Niykee explained that people asked her why she left the music industry and if it was as evil as they say. She expressed, “It is more evil than you can possibly imagine.” The singer added, “I’m one of the lucky ones. I got out when I could.” Niykee further said she was lucky enough to only be allegedly assaulted twice. She explained that she experienced more assaults, but only two of those incidents impacted her. One of the incidents allegedly involved her and Lauren. She claimed that after becoming popular at 18, many rappers reached out to her. One of those rappers was said to be Kanye.
One late night, Niykee, then 19 years old, and Lauren allegedly got a call saying Kanye wanted them to come to the studio to work on music. When they got to the studio, they purportedly met Kanye, Diddy, and three other men: Kanye’s cousin, an executive who worked with the rapper, and his sound engineer. She said there were also nine other women there, who she described as “studio hoes.” Niykee said she felt uneasy because she wasn’t expecting to see those women. She also claimed Diddy and Kanye were “drunk and out of their minds.” Afterward, Diddy allegedly handed her a drink while Kanye did the same to Lauren. Although Niykee didn’t like alcohol, she accepted the drink to avoid being rude.
Niykee’s Allegations Against Kanye & Diddy
Niykee claimed Diddy kept staring at her while Kanye stared at Lauren. According to her, the rappers exchanged glances and were keen on them drinking. Hence, she felt uneasy, believed something was in the drink, and pretended to sip it. She tried to text Lauren about her suspicions, but Kanye took the phone away from her and placed it on a speaker. Afterward, Niykee saw Lauren sip from the drink twice. Not long after, Lauren started speaking loudly, making jokes, and acting unlike herself, which made Niykee suspect the drinks were allegedly laced. Suddenly, Lauren dismissed the other girls in the studio, leaving her, Niykee, with Diddy, Kanye, and the three other men.
Later, Lauren apparently left the studio to go to the bathroom despite Niykee’s efforts to stop her. Niykee remained calm, but Diddy and Kanye allegedly approached her and asked her to remove her clothes since the studio was hot, but she playfully declined. She claimed, “They were like, ‘C’mon, it’s just us. We are all just friends. Like let us just like see like how you look.” She still refused their advances. However, Kanye and Diddy allegedly ripped her shirt off. At this point, she looked to her left, where Kanye’s executive stood three meters away and mouthed, “Help.” However, he looked away. Next, she looked at Kanye’s engineer, who was married and had just welcomed a baby girl. Yet, she accused him of looking at his phone and started texting. She also said she looked at Kanye’s cousin, but he spun his chair around. Hence, she knew no one was coming to save her and became very afraid.
Niykee claimed Kanye and Diddy were now trying to get her pants off. She said she closed her eyes briefly and prayed to God for help. Then, she alleged a voice came to her head and asked her to go towards the rappers, which she did. This threw them off balance, allowing her to reach behind her back and pull the exit door. She said she managed to slip out and grabbed her clothes as she did.
Niykee said she ran out and hid in an empty studio for about 25 minutes, crying and wondering what to do. She texted Lauren but didn’t get any response. She claimed she saw Kanye assaulting Lauren, which is why she was named in the latter’s lawsuit. Eventually, she further alleged she managed to get herself and Lauren, who couldn’t remember anything, an Uber that took them home. Niykee concluded by advising people to stay away from the industry, claiming that more people would come forward with their experiences.
The sexual harassment lawsuit from former Yeezy employee Lauren Pisciotta against Kanye West has reportedly roped his wife Bianca Censori into things as well, according to supposed court documents reportedly obtained by XXL. Take this all with a grain of salt, but Pisciotta claims that they once bragged to her about having a five-person orgy. In addition, Pisciotta also alleged that, in that same month, Ye supposedly told Bianca and female guests to orally pleasure him and his male guests in the company’s office’s changing room and allegedly asked Pisciotta to take her cardigan off because “it was covering too much.”
Furthermore, this claim arrives in the media and the headlines as Kanye West and Bianca Censori departed Italy for Japan with some interesting fashion choices. As of writing this article, it doesn’t seem like either party has responded either directly or indirectly, via gossip or sources, to these newly discussed claims. For those unaware, the big picture of Lauren Pisciotta’s claims is that Ye allegedly sent her inappropriate texts and videos, pleasured himself during phone calls with her and made her aware of it, and engaged in more examples of pressured advances. Given that Censori was presumably just his co-worker, fling, or girlfriend at the time and not his “wife” (whether in the ceremonious or legal sense), this part of the narrative is slightly murky but nonetheless harrowing and deserving of accountability.
Kanye West and Bianca Censori at Marni RTW Fall 2024 as part of Milan Ready to Wear Fashion Week held on February 23, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, this is part of the statement that Kanye West’s team issued in response to Lauren Pisciotta’s lawsuit. “In response to these baseless allegations, Ye will [file] a lawsuit against Ms. Pisciotta, who actively pursued him sexually to coerce employment and other material benefits, then engaged in blackmail and extortion when [he rejected] her advances,” Ye’s attorney stated to XXL. “Prior to her termination as an assistant, Ms. Pisciotta stole his cell phone in an attempt to destroy phone records that would contradict her claims, all of which […] preserved.
“She [received termination] for being unqualified, demanding unreasonable sums of money (including a $4 million annual salary) and numerous documented incidents of her lascivious, unhinged conduct,” Kanye West’s statement continued. “During her employment, Ms. Pisciotta offered Ye sex on his birthday […] which he declined, sent Ye unsolicited nude images, sexual narratives and [twerked] in the office during business hours.”
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