Kanye West goes by many titles: producer, artist, and founder of Donda Academy. Named after his late mother, the now closed school was a Christian private school in Simi Valley, California. It isn’t the easiest thing to know what attending the school was like considering the mandated NDAs parents had to sign to enroll their children, but chances are the students didn’t make much fun of each other’s clothes considering that the uniform code mandated Balenciaga — sure, your shoes may be goofy, but so are everyone else’s:
Fashion choices aren’t the only thing that have Ye’s structuring of Donda Academy under a microscope. Baller Alert has coverage:
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, a Los Angeles judge has given West 30 days to appear in person for a deposition. The ruling comes after repeated efforts by the plaintiff to secure the rapper’s participation.
The lawsuit, filed in April 2024 by Trevor Phillips, a former employee of Donda Academy, accuses West of creating a hostile and discriminatory work environment.
Phillips claims he experienced harassment while employed at the school. In his filing, he wrote that West “spew forth hate, profess antisemitic tropes and lies, threaten the LGBTQ+ community, and even on one occasion, almost sexually stimulate himself.”
It would be easy to point to Ye’s Heil Hitler track and accompanying music video or the one he did with Lil Pump where he declared that “I’m a sick f*ck”, but I’m generally against the use of song lyrics as evidence that a person is a piece of shit. Thankfully, you don’t have to search hard to find Kanye West’s antisemitic footsteps on Twitter and YouTube:
Now, does this prove that he was descriminatory at the school? No, but that deposition could provide a hell of a lot of leeway! Ye has had a longstanding reputation for blurting out whatever is on his mind when the cameras are rolling. Question, do you think this link will take you to the infamous “George Bush doesn’t like Black people” blurt or the Taylor Swift snub? Oddly enough, neither! It was the time Alex Jones had to quickly distance himself from Ye because he was being too Hitler-friendly.
Yeah, whatever lawyer gets tasked with deposing Yedolf Yitler is about to have the easiest job ever.
Kanye West Must Testify in Lawsuit Over Donda Academy [Baller Alert]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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Kanye West goes by many titles: producer, artist, and founder of Donda Academy. Named after his late mother, the now closed school was a Christian private school in Simi Valley, California. It isn’t the easiest thing to know what attending the school was like considering the mandated NDAs parents had to sign to enroll their children, but chances are the students didn’t make much fun of each other’s clothes considering that the uniform code mandated Balenciaga — sure, your shoes may be goofy, but so are everyone else’s:
Fashion choices aren’t the only thing that have Ye’s structuring of Donda Academy under a microscope. Baller Alert has coverage:
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, a Los Angeles judge has given West 30 days to appear in person for a deposition. The ruling comes after repeated efforts by the plaintiff to secure the rapper’s participation.
The lawsuit, filed in April 2024 by Trevor Phillips, a former employee of Donda Academy, accuses West of creating a hostile and discriminatory work environment.
Phillips claims he experienced harassment while employed at the school. In his filing, he wrote that West “spew forth hate, profess antisemitic tropes and lies, threaten the LGBTQ+ community, and even on one occasion, almost sexually stimulate himself.”
It would be easy to point to Ye’s Heil Hitler track and accompanying music video or the one he did with Lil Pump where he declared that “I’m a sick f*ck”, but I’m generally against the use of song lyrics as evidence that a person is a piece of shit. Thankfully, you don’t have to search hard to find Kanye West’s antisemitic footsteps on Twitter and YouTube:
Now, does this prove that he was descriminatory at the school? No, but that deposition could provide a hell of a lot of leeway! Ye has had a longstanding reputation for blurting out whatever is on his mind when the cameras are rolling. Question, do you think this link will take you to the infamous “George Bush doesn’t like Black people” blurt or the Taylor Swift snub? Oddly enough, neither! It was the time Alex Jones had to quickly distance himself from Ye because he was being too Hitler-friendly.
Yeah, whatever lawyer gets tasked with deposing Yedolf Yitler is about to have the easiest job ever.
Kanye West Must Testify in Lawsuit Over Donda Academy [Baller Alert]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
