The company MyChannel filed an emergency motion to get Ye in court, where Kanye donned a Jesus mask and lashed out at the company’s attorney, Michael Popok.
The tech company is suing Kanye and Yeezy Apparel for a breach of contract. Kanye hired the company for six months to maximize revenue for Yeezy Apparel. The rapper made promises of a $10 million investment in MyChannel, which was never fulfilled. MyChannel also claims Ye stole tech for use in his Sunday Service concert series.
MyChannel has been making demands for Kanye to appear in an in-court deposition. However due to COVID-19 concerns, a judge allowed for a virtual session.
Kanye Lashes Out
Court filings noted that Ye called the lawyer — who is white — “boy” more than ten times during a heated deposition.
In ten minutes, West refused to “answer even the most basic of questions,” “showed complete disdain for the deposition,” asked Popok if he was “fucking stupid,” and told Popok that he was “lucky to be deposing the richest Black man in America and a Black Trump supporter.”
Five minutes in, Kanye put on a “full-face hood and head covering adorned with Jesus Christ’s image, which obscured his face and muffled his voice.”
Despite requests from MyChannel’s lawyers, Kanye refused to remove the mask. He claimed that Popok “didn’t have the right to see his face.”
Despite these antics, Kanye’s counsel “did nothing” to stop the rapper’s behavior. They were “unwilling and unable to counsel” Ye’s conduct. One of the Ye’s lawyers signed off on the behavior and said, “that was some crazy shit.”
In addition to MyChannel’s lawyers hauling the rapper into court for a face-to-face deposition next month, MyChannel is seeking to sanction the rapper $63,000.
Nancy Jiang