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Model accuses Kanye of exploiting young people who worked at his fashion show and album launch

Kanye West has come under fire in the run-up to the release of his new album, 'The Life Of Pablo'.
He debuted his new 'Yeezy' fashion line and music from the album at a sold-out show in Madison Square Gardens on Thursday evening
One model has hit out at the rapper for not paying people who worked at the show.

"Kanye finnessed 1200 young black adults into working as extras for free to a sold out white crowd that was screaming "all day n****""

He claimed "1,200 black youths" did not find out until 6am on Friday morning that they weren't getting paid  for performing in his show.

The model also claimed they did not get to keep the clothes they modelled, and were "sent to Jersey"  in "clothes from the Salvation Army".
 "Kur-ents" described the experience on his Instagram page.
He said: "Lmao I was on the megatron at Madison for yeezy 3. S*** was trash. Kanye finnessed 1200 young black adults into working as extras for free to a sold out white crowd that was screaming "all day n****".

"We didn't find out we weren't getting paid til 6am. He sent us to jersey and put us in Salvation Army clothes (not yeezy, my pants were carhartt and my shirt was American apparel). I jugged some sambas from wardrobe though."
The Instagram post has gained attention on Twitter.
Some said the extra should "quit complaining" and they would have modelled for free.

But others  said Kanye should have at least paid his models minimum wage:

This comes after a "ridiculous" set of 38 rules for his models was released on Twitter.
The models apparently followed a list of 38 strict rules enforced by Kanye, which included 'no smile', 'alter between attention and ease', 'do not act cool' and 'do not ever look a the jumbotron' (in case you were wondering, the jumbotron refers to a large-screen TV, of which there is an enormous one suspended from the ceiling of Madison Square Garden). A picture of this list of model rules was shared on Twitter before the show, and they did appear to follow these instructions.
We have contacted Adidas and Def Jam for comment.

On the scene at Madison Square Garden for West’s fashion show and listening party.

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It was a sea of fur coats outside Madison Square Garden at 3 p.m. on Thursday, as music bloggers and style bloggers (and, uh, non-bloggers) made their way into the highly-anticipated Kanye West Extravaganza. At least a dozen women were sporting French braids in the style Kim Kardashian has recently been wearing; there was a plethora of army print and baseball caps and bootie stilettos.

Everyone looked very much like they had dressed for the occasion, which made for a strange contrast with the relative un-chic-ness of Madison Square Garden. Once inside, a few rows in front of us, we watched a woman in what looked to be a shimmery Balmain dress wiggle past one of the Madison Square Garden ticket-takers, and then ask a security guard to take a picture of her.

Before the show—which was both a listening party for West’s forthcoming The Life of Pablo, as well as a presentation for West’s Yeezy Season 3 clothing line—a large tarp covered what would later be revealed to be a collection of hundreds of models. The tarp heaved and shifted, and reminded me of that game (“game” may be a stretch) you’d play in middle school where you’d stand in a circle with your class holding a parachute and everyone would raise it in the air and then run inside quickly to sit down on the ends of it, creating a bubble.


At around 4:30 p.m., the Kardashians entered, shown on the Jumbotron, reminiscent of when a boxer enters the ring and is followed by an assortment of celebrities and supporters. They each wore a variation of white and metallic silver (Khloe, ever the rebel, accessorized with a pink fur coat), and Kim—who has made a habit of surprising with her hair choices—wore a white wig. 

(North matched her mother, in a white coat.) Kris Jenner (also in a white fur coat) sat a row ahead of her daughters, next to Melanie Griffith and Olivier Rousteing. On the other side of Rousteing was Karlie Kloss, and she was sitting next to 50 Cent (imagining 50 and Kloss’s small talk was a particular highlight for me). Kim, naturally, sat next to Anna Wintour. The row behind the Kardashians was something of a grab bag: the Hadid sisters, Jonathan Cheban, Kris’s boyfriend Korey Gamble. (Caitlyn Jenner sat with the Kardashians.)

Right before the show began and West emerged, Rosie O’Donnell was ushered to her seat a few rows ahead from where I was sitting, which was not at all how I expected things to get underway and also supremely delightful.

As for the “show” itself, as West played the songs from the album, and after the tarp was removed to reveal an ocean of models, the “pace” of the event became pretty clear. The models, for the most part, remained still and stationary for over an hour (it was easy to envision Kylie Jenner, who has modeled in the two previous Yeezy shows, scoffing, “Yeah, right, there is no way I am standing there for an hour”). We, as an audience, were just going to be watching a lot of people basically standing still while we listened to songs played at a deafening level (Lynn Yeager, seated near us, left about ten minutes in, perhaps due to the high decibel of the music).
The feel of the event was sort of like the most large-scale, high-intensity version of Sitting Around With Your Friends in a Basement, while someone handles the aux cord and plays a bunch of different songs they’re into, looking around to make sure everyone is cool with their taste. At one point, Naomi Campbell emerged, atop one of the two raised platforms on stage, and vamped for a few minutes in a black coat. She then returned to her seat next to Anna Wintour. I kept wondering what the models were thinking about; hopefully one of them will write an anonymous Medium piece at some point.
At around 5:25 p.m., one could sense the crowd getting restless. The Kardashians left; many of the fashion writers left; the album wrapped up; and it seemed as though the end had come. But West wasn’t finished. He shouted out people in the audience (Carine Roitfeld, Roustening); he responded to audience chants (“No, not f--- Michael Jordan”); he showed a clip of a “video game” he created about his mother ascending through the gates of heaven; he played a few more songs. On our way out, we marveled at the long lines of people waiting to buy merchandise—comprised of shirts emblazoned with “I feel like Pablo.” If they had been selling fur coats, I just might have waited for one.