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Kanye West’s Donda Academy Only Served Sushi To Students, A New Lawsuit Against The School Claims

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Last year, it was reported that Kanye West‘s Donna Academy was shut down and then unexpectedly reopened shortly after. Now, TMZ reports that the school is allegedly being sued by two former teachers.

TMZ obtained a lawsuit by two female teachers — the only Black teachers working there — who were fired for calling out education, health, and safety violations. They claim their termination was due to retaliation and racial discrimination.

For starters, the only food being fed to students is apparently sushi, which has to be eaten off the floor, without any tables or chairs. Students are not permitted to bring any outside food or drink aside from water. West is allegedly spending $10,000 a week on sushi. They’re also not permitted any utensils. Also, no classes can take place on the second floor because West is “afraid of stairs.” Similarly, students aren’t allowed to wear jewelry because he “did not like jewelry.”

The dress code for students is that they must wear all black, which can be viewed in pictures on TMZ’s post. Nike and Adidas clothing is also forbidden. There’s also no janitor or a school nurse. The two teachers also alleged that their paychecks were often short up to $2,700.

North West’s TikTok Cosplay Video As Ice Spice Has People Debating (Something) And Resurfacing An Old Kanye Clip

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North West has emerged as a major Ice Spice fan, as Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s 9-year-old daughter made a pretty great drawing of the rapper and even linked up with Ice Spice herself and made some TikTok videos. Now, though, North’s newest batch of TikTok posts is stirring up some conversations.

In a series of posts shared today (March 6), North dons a curly orange wig and an Ice Spice-like outfit as she and friends dance and mouth along to Ice Spice TikTok sounds. Here’s one of those videos, which is set to Ice Spice and PinkPantheress’ “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2”:

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♬ Boy’s a liar Pt. 2 – PinkPantheress & Ice Spice

This clip and the others have spawned multiple varieties of discourse. Some Twitter users took exception to 9-year-old North listening to a song with sexual lyrics like, “Sayin’ he home, but I know where he at, like / Bet he blowin’ her back / Thinkin’ ’bout me ’cause he know that it’s fat.” In response to that, others pointed out that kids have been hearing suggestive popular tunes for decades now.

Some people resurfaced an older video of Kanye talking about TikTok (with some re-sharers inaccurately billing it as Kanye’s response specifically to North’s Ice Spice fascination). In the video, Kanye vents his frustrations about North’s TikTok activity and how he doesn’t want her to be “used” by the platform.

Some people stood in solidarity with Kanye, like one user who wrote, “Kanye was right and y’all just ignorant. no way you see a actual child dressing up like a Sexualized rapper who makes music about sexualized things cute and funny. It’s disgusting.”

North herself is hopefully avoiding the discourse altogether, as the ability to comment on her TikTok posts is turned off.

Kanye West’s Dating History

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Kanye West, 45, is easily one of music’s biggest icons, as his creative genius is both emotionally moving and intellectually developed. Not only do his rhythmic lyrics of poetic rap make him a standout in the music industry, but his many accolades prove he’s one of the greatest, as not many artists articulate their musical ability the way West does. His 4X platinum debut album, The College Dropout, also named to Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It showcased West’s musical outlook through his emotive lyrics and layered beats influenced by genres alike. His albums to follow like Graduation, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Watch The Throne would soon preview West as the influential artist that he is to this day. 

Ye Named To Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time

Ye is seen, outside Schiaparelli, during Paris Fashion Week. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)

With 22 Grammy awards, West is one of the most decorated artists of our generation. When his first three studio albums were nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys, Rolling Stone was quick to name West as one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time alongside artists like Jay-Z, Michael Jackson, and Elton John. 

Though the Chicago-based rapper has dedicated most of his life to generating, creating, and producing music, West made the time to become a father of four with entrepreneur and model Kim Kardashian, 42. Focused on his life outside of music like fatherhood and his infamous Sunday Services of praise and prayer, West has taken a step back from the “ultralight beam”. He is now focused on his new relationship with architect and Yeezy designer Bianca Censori, 27. 

West Marries Yeezy Architect Bianca Censori

Kanye West. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)

Currently not only linked but married to Censori, West tied the knot just months after his public divorce from Kardashian. Though West and Censori had a private wedding ceremony, the two have yet to file a marriage certificate. Therefore, their marriage is not completely legal. With a master’s in building design from Melbourne University in Australia, it’s no wonder West is attracted to Censori, as she displays a calm demeanor and knowledgeable intellect, just opposite of West’s extroverted eccentricity. Though the two share their creativity, there’s yet to be much information on the newlyweds other than West’s tribute to his wife in his new song, “Censori Overload“, where he raps, “Waking up to I can’t do this anymore texts, and the Bible said I can’t have any more sex till marriage.”

Kim Kardashian Says She And Kanye West Have No Communication

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. (Photo by Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)

Before Censori, West was “bound to” Kardashian in a seven-year marriage beginning in 2014 with their destination wedding in Italy. The divorcées share children, North, 9, Saint, 7, Chicago, 5, and Psalm, 3. Though West reportedly bought the mansion across the street from Kardashian’s Calabasas home, Kardashian bought it back from him and states that the two have zero communication in their co-parenting settlement where Kardashian is receiving $200,000 a month from West. Throughout their marriage, Kardashian showed West support in his controversial campaign to run for President, among many other public antics from West. The two seemingly fell for each other long before their relationship started but made a clear break from one another after their divorce was finalized in 2022.

Julia Fox Says Kanye West Would Constantly Text Her

BJulia Fox and Ye are seen, outside Schiaparelli, during Paris Fashion Weeke. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)

Before West wed his second wife Censori in 2023, he was in a public relationship with model Julia Fox, 32. Fox says that West was very persistent in courting her, saying he would constantly text her. Though she was apprehensive to date another “boring” celebrity, Fox was soon to give in to her feelings for West. Fox claims she was only trying to distract West so he wouldn’t bother Kardashian, but their public relationship seemingly manifested into more than just texting, as Fox states that she and West had many deep conversations about hopes and dreams. Fox ended their relationship after two months due to West regaining his Twitter access and taking to social media again. “I’m not gonna stick around for this s**t,” says Fox in an online rant about the breakup. The two remain on good terms. 

Chaney Jones Gets “Ye” Tattooed on Her Wrist

Rapper Kanye West and girlfriend Chaney Jones attend a game between the Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Instagram model Chaney Jones, 24, has also been linked to West. The two dated for 5 months after West and Fox broke off their relationship. Facing backlash for dating Jones because she is a close look-alike to Kardashian, Jones and West got pretty close. So close that Jones got the rapper’s name tattooed on her left wrist where it displays “ye.” From courtside basketball games to shopping trips and vacations, the two spent so much time together. They became official over social media where they both gushed about one another on photos posted of them together. The two officially broke it off after West was seen with another woman at the movies. Neither Jones nor West has commented much on the split.  

Long before his most recent public relationships, West can be linked to multiple women in Hollywood including entrepreneur Amber Rose, 39, model Irina Shayk, 37, stylist Alexis Phifer, 46, and Pussycat Doll singer Melody Thornton, 38. However, West’s most high-profile relationship was with Rose between 2008 and 2010 before they split to be with other people. West went as far as rapping about the model in multiple songs on his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Rose commented on his lyrics saying, “Don’t get me wrong, I’ll hear songs and I’m like, ‘Oh, he said that about me? No one knows what he’s talking about but me and him. People can’t decipher. They’ll be like, that’s a cool song, and I’m like, that happened to us when we were together.”

West Signs New Deal With Adidas

Recently, West has been spotted both alone and with his wife Censori. He had a few run-ins with the paparazzi. But it was while he was on his way to support his children. So he wasn’t as sporadic as he tends to be when triggered by the media. Though controversies continue to arise for West, he has solidified a deal with Adidas after he was terminated in 2022 for antisemitic comments. His new deal will allow for the sales of $500 million in Yeezy products to continue. 

As of late, the impassioned rapper is only releasing music on his personal platform, Stem Player for $200 stating, “Today artists get just 12 [percent] of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.” West’s last release was Donda 2 in 2022. Though you’ll only be able to listen on Stem Player, West stays adamant on his decision to polarize his platform. 

Ye Says He Never Profited Off Of “Donda 2” Stem Player

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Ye currently has a few lawsuits that he’s dealing with, one of them surrounding the exclusive Donda 2 album. If you recall, the project never landed on streaming services. Instead, Ye chose to exclusively make the album available on his Stem player, which launched alongside 2021’s Donda. Though it wasn’t widely accessible, he’s facing a lawsuit surrounding a sample on Donda 2. “Flowers” uses Marshall Jefferson’s “Move Your Body.” However, the publisher, Ultra International Music Publishing (UIMP), said Ye never received permission to use it in the first place.

UIMP claimed Ye acknowledged the unauthorized use of the sample. They said he “continue[d] to willfully infringe in blatant disregard of UIMP’s rights of ownership.” As a result, UIMP believes Ye made significant profits from the use of the sample. However, the project wasn’t available on streaming services. This could be based on a since-deleted post where Ye said he made millions off of the device. “To earn the $2.2 million we made on the first day on the stem player the album would have had to stream 500 million times,” he wrote. “We did more revenue on stem player, without the album even being out, than we would have done with the album being out on streaming.”

Ye Says No Money Was Made From Stem Player

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Per All Hip Hop, Ye denied the allegations while his attorney said the Stem Players didn’t make any profits. “[Kanye] specifically denies that he has received any profits from the sale of Stem Players,” his attorney wrote. “Ye admits that there were sales of Stem Players after February 19, 2022, some of which came with Donda 2 preloaded on them. [He] denies that he received any revenue from those sales.”

His attorney also addressed the allegations that he verbally acknowledged the use of “Move Your Body.” “Ye denies that he personally acknowledged in discussions with representatives for Mr. Jefferson and UIMP that ‘Move Your Body’ was sampled in Flowers’ without authorization or payment,” Ye’s lawyer wrote. “Ye further denies that he personally has not ceased distribution of ‘Flowers.’” We’ll see how this pans out for Ye as UIMP seeks $150K in damages for each infringement listed in their lawsuit. We’ll keep you posted. 

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Ye & Bianca Censori Appear Tense During Rare L.A. Outing

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Unlike Kim Kardashian, Kanye West appears to be keeping his marriage with Bianca Censori under wraps. The couple quietly tied the knot earlier this year while paparazzi have spotted them out and about on a few occasions. However, it hasn’t been like Ye and Bianca have been on the red carpet circuit heavily, flaunting their romance. The couple has been quite reserved recently, which is undoubtedly a change of pace for the “Runaway” creator who continues to face backlash for anti-semitic remarks he made in 2022.

Despite the relatively private nature of their relationship thus far, they have popped out on a few occasions. For Valentine’s Day, the couple was spotted with Russell Simmons, who Ye previously put on blast for suggesting that he visit a Holocaust museum. Prior to that, Ye took out his wife and his firstborn daughter, North, to a restaurant. However, neither of them have made any public remarks regarding their relationship. 

Ye and Bianca’s Gas Station Pit Stop Appears Tense

The Daily Mail caught a rare glimpse of Ye and Bianca at a gas station this week but things appeared to be tense. The coupled popped into the store where they picked up a few drinks before filling up their tank. However, it appears that there was some tension between them as they were talking. While Censori grabbed the gas nozzle, she looked tense as she talked to her husband. It’s unclear what she may have been tense about but perhaps, it was the paparazzi following them during mundane tasks. 

Ye recently popped into the L.A. County Sheriff’s West Hollywood Station to report harassment from the paparazzi last week. It’s an interesting change of pace for a man who previously got into physical altercation with the media in the past. Apparently, Ye informed the paps to leave him and his family alone but things began to escalate when they refused. However, Kanye didn’t allow it to get physical. Just a month prior, Ye got into an altercation with a woman filming him. After she refused to stop filming him, he grabbed her phone and tossed it into the street. 

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