A rep for Kanye West is reportedly calling foul on a recent report alleging the G.O.O.D. Music boss is holding Yandhi hostage. According to XXL, the rep denied The Blast’s exclusive report claiming there’s a third and singular lawsuit with Def Jam Recordings.
“The Blast article has the unredacted complaint but it’s not a new lawsuit,” the statement read. “It’s the unredacted version of the previous filing. Also there’s another inaccurate portion about him holding up the ninth album. That’s not in the complaint and untrue.”
Kanye, however, did file a recent lawsuit against Roc-A-Fella Records and EMI Recordings. He claims they owe him money.
Yandhi was originally expected to arrive last September. Following multiple delays, a new release date has yet to be announced.
[This article has been updated. The original version was published on January 27, 2019 and can be found below.]
Kanye West has been teasing Yandhi for months, but after multiple delays, the project has yet to materialize. According to The Blast, the reason for the lag is due to a label dispute. Shortly after ‘Ye filed a lawsuit against Roc-A-Fella Records, his legal teamed set its sights on Def Jam Recordings and EMI.
The legal documents reportedly take aim at Bravado merchandising and Island Def Jam, alleging both companies have been exploiting “one of the world’s most iconic, multi-faceted, and productive talents.”
The polarizing Hip Hop figure is asking a judge to free him from any obligations he has to Def Jam, the label he’s been tied to for the past 17 years.
“Even if the contracts were not unfair (they are), even if their terms valued Mr. West’s contributions in line with the breathtaking success he has achieved for these companies (they do not) and even if the companies had not unpaid Mr. West what they owe him (they have), he would be entitled to be set free from its bonds,” the document read.
The G.O.O.D. Music mastermind is also asking for ownership of his master recordings.
“At no point since the commencement of Mr. West’s services under the recording agreement and extensions in 2002 has he enjoyed any ‘moment of freedom’ that is, any moment during which he was freed from his obligations under the contract and able to offer his services to anyone else, take a break from his recording career, or even retire from it altogether,” the doc stated.
Kanye’s team insists he’s owed a “substantial amount” of money, although the number isn’t specified. They suggest Def Jam “has unjustly earned millions of dollars by binding Mr. West’s recording talents to [Island Def Jam] for an unlawful term.”
‘Ye reportedly doesn’t want Yandhi held up in any contractual obligations. Therefore, he’s refusing to release it.
At this point, there’s no telling if the album will ever surface. For now, all his fans will get are his weekly Sunday Service series.
Fuck
duuuude… leak it!
duuuuudeee…. delete it
Delete, Delete Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete,Delete
Anal?
Let me in
I’m a bottom 🙂
I’m sure he cried.
He gonna cry in the car
LOL THOUGHT HE SAID SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE
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Nobody wants it anyways keep that bullshit to yourself!
Preach….A the Lord as my witness, please don’t allow him to release that abomination. It’s the devil’s music. At least his music in particular.
I wasn’t aware the devil had music. I think I want another album from Kanye. You fail to realize that calling popular music “Satanic” is nothing new. Like 50 years ago they called certain rock music satanic too. I really dont wanna hear this no more. But look, Kanye was a fool for buttering up to Trump. Kanye is a musical genious tho
No one gives a fuck
Dear Kanye,
You have already turned your back on the African Americans in this country and sold us out at the expense of your own ego. We do not have any or need to ever hear anything musically from you again.
Yours Truly,
Black American
Well said
Are you retarded? LMAO he is trying to play the president for criminal justice reform. He asked to have the founding member of the Gangster’s Disciples freed. Start thinking with your head. Please.
Yours Truly,
Someone not as ignorant
Politics aside….ANY person, ESPECIALLY BLACK FOLKS, who support a known racist is a foolish sell out and should be disowned. A racist NEVER has another race’s best intentions in mind.
Trump isn’t racist though. That’s all media hype.
Trump is definitely racist he advocated for stop and frisk, he tried to have 5 black boys sentenced to death and when they were found innocent he still insulted them, he committed numerous HUD violations, and the rhetoric he employs daily is riddled with racism. That’s not hype that’s what he’s doing.
Please tell us what he’s doing for “us”
Test Joke- Somebody put a Voodoo Cruse on me causing a sex drought it started when Fat Joe & Lil Wayne came out with the song ( Make It Rain ) Now Check this out I went to Magic City Strip Club Atlanta GA. Soon as I got in the club a Detroit Foxy Brown Stunt Double approach me asking who put that jacket on me I Tommy out of Asia so later that night I got dance from Neon Pretty Pink she was getting upset because I was a slow tipper and I could’t make it rain I only could make drip that was the first time Secret Mona live come to find out later she’s not apart of the Snack Pack now I’m going back to see can Detroit reverse the cruse I heard Mariah Carey did the same thing Eminem
Stop smoking SouljaRocks please
tell me more
Hope Ye can get loose and drop something dope
He already dropped him pants and Trump gave him the Moscow Moose Knuckle lol
He’d be ostracised by clowns like you for having a different political opinion. Imagine…
Except Trump is anything but tolerant. The fuck outta here.
Good for him. Get your money OG — he got the wake up call once he saw how Frank Ocean and Chris Brown squared up with the small hats and won — so now it’s open season, retribution time. We can wait until your business is straight.
You dumb fucks DO REALIZE he’s INTENTIONALLY doing this to hype up the album so it has a Cartver V esqu feel …. its all about money
Carter V was completely forgotten about after 1 week. Super flop.
No one gave af about Carter V tho
Or he probably doesn’t want to drop it because it’s going to be trash like the last 5 albums he’s worked on. Talk about falling off… and if this upsets you then you are part of the problem.
Yeah, Nas, Push and Kids all sucked. Only they didn’t. You have no taste and are probably a Drake Stan. Those were all the best albums of last year. Fool
They weren’t even close to the best albums! Please clown. They definitely sucked. Those albums all lasted 1 week and were forgot about. Nothing but dissappointments. Easily Nas’ worst project. And no I don’t listen to Drake either. Know who you’re coming at. The best album of 2018 was without question The Book of Ryan. Fool
Please clown. All of those albums most definitely sucked and were forgotten about after 1 week. All Flops. Easily Nas’ worst project. Know you you’re coming at. Definitely don’t listen to Drake either. Like I said, if that upset you then you are part of the problem. Best album of 2018 was without question The Book of Ryan. Fool
They all definitely sucked. Fool
Give that man his masters!
The world is waiting to hear Yandhi!
If Ye would have paid attention to ATCQ and Ras Kass about shady label contracting, then he wouldn’t have been in this mess in the first place. Get your head outta Kim’s & Trump’s ass and smarten up.
Yeah. Poor Ye with his 200 plus million, 350 million dollar wife and clothing brand appraised at almost a billion ATCQ and Razzy definitly are on that level. Sarcasm.
“Kanye West should have taken career advice from Ras Kass” – no remotely intelligent biological specimen in the history of the universe except you
“slavery was a choice.”
looks like the label has you chained up bro
how ye?
its a shame people dont get what he said. He sees what yall refuse to see. We are all slaves to the system. Whether we like it or not. Everyone is in it for themselves even though we are all robots for one giant factory. he knew what he was saying and it is true. slavery is a choice.
I think Kanye made it cool for men to become overly sensitive.
Kanye fell off after Dark Twisted Fantasy and hasn’t dropped a tolerable album since. Then again, Kanye as a person hasn’t been tolerable since then either.
Count me as somebody who couldn’t care less
Kanye is the latest,Kanye is the greatest, Kanye has the status
no shit cause yandhi don’t exist.
Kanye music these days is wack anyway… Go ahead and shelf the bum.