The public apology published in the Wall Street Journal for his years of antisemetic comments issued in January by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and his explanation that it was the result of a brain injury and subsequent bipolar disorder are now being scrutinized after his attorneys repeated in a legal filing this week that similar references he made in the workplace were part of his creative process and therefore protected as artistic expression.
The rapper’s attorney, Andrew and Katie Cherkasky, filed in the California Court of Appeals seeking to halt a workplace harassment lawsuit filed by a former Yeezy marketing staffer from moving forward after it cleared an initial hurdle in a lower court. In the suit, the ex-staffer claims that while she worked at his lifestyle company promoting his Vultures 1 album in 2024, Ye compared himself to Hitler, sent her pornographic material and texted calling her a “bitch.
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