British commentator and Kaney's former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos took to X on August 9, 2024, to denounce Kanye West's claims against Atlantic Records' treatment of independent artists.
Kanye West released Vultures 2 on August 3, 2024, which suffered from backlash owing to complaints about the album's quality. Ye promised to update the same, post which he uploaded an Instagram story of a screenshot calling out Atlantic Records. The Instagram story showcased that Julie Greenwald was fired from Atlantic Group, and the new head won't give Ye a grace period to pay the record company compensation.
In the screenshot, the unnamed person warned Kanye that he would have to pay Atlantic Records 40% of the revenue from Vultures 1 and Vultures 2, or the albums would be taken down. Kanye captioned the story:
"This is what 'they' do to independent artists."
Referring to Kanye's claim in his tweet, Milo Yiannopoulos stated:
"Ty is signed to Atlantic. It’s absurd to imagine you can just release music and ignore and not pay them. My efforts to strike a deal were abandoned when I left. This has nothing to do with how anyone treats independent artists. Just another Eric Cui special."
Milo's reference to Kanye's current chief of staff, Eric Cui, is in continuation of the British commentator alleging that Eric made Ye addicted to nitrous gas, in addition to the claim of Cui telling Milo he was closer to Drake's team than Ye's.
"I have some concerns about his new team": Milo Yiannopoulos talks about Kanye's team after stepping down as rapper's chief of staff
Milo Yiannopoulos was Kanye West's chief of staff from 2022 to 2024. He resigned from his position in May 2024, making multiple allegations against Ye's current chief of staff, Eric Cui, and his dentist, Thomas P. Connelly.
In a copy of his resignation letter that Milo gave TMZ on May 15, 2024, the British broadcaster mentioned that he didn't want to be involved in producing and distributing p**nographic content under Ye for religious and moral reasons. He also stated that it was an imminent danger to his lie as a "recovering addict" and that it was an unacceptable risk to his spiritual and physical health as a former homosexual.
Milo Yiannopoulos told the publication:
"I wish Ye every success in the future. I have some concerns about his new team, and hope he proceeds with caution."
Toward the end of the resignation email, Milo mentioned that he would be delivering a handover on May 31, 2024, or on the date Kanye starts shooting p**nographic content, whichever is earlier. Additionally, Milo Yiannopoulos also mentioned that if there is a time in the future when Kanye decides to stop producing and distributing obscene content, it would "be an honour" to serve the rapper again.
In other news, Milo Yiannopoulos took to X on August 7, 2024, to allege that Kanye West isn't capable of releasing new music or clothing, blaming the rapper's dentist, Thomas Connelly. Milo alleged that the dentist got Kanye hooked on nitrous to reduce the rapper's "mental faculties" so he and his business associates "could extract millions of dollars from him."
However, Kanye West or his team haven't responded to Milo's claims yet.