UPDATED 3/14 10:53 a.m. ET: YesJulz has shared her correspondence with an email purportedly from Milo Yiannopoulos, who is now reconsidering her firing.
"Ye and I have been listening to your current Twitter spaces. We are willing to meet and reconsider next steps and your future with YZY and as a contractor," he wrote.
Julz replied, "As soon as Yeezy is free of pedophilic, sexist, homophobic, racists– I will be more than happy to speak to Ye directly about being a part of the team. Obviously, this means you'd need to quit or be fired."
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On Tuesday, YesJulz was publicly let go by Ye and his team. "We have decided to no longer have YesJulz involved in the role out of Vultures," read Kanye's since-deleted Instagram post. "All the activity on her page and with our fans in the past few days has been unauthorized."
The social media personality/talent manager—who was present at events promoting West's Vultures album with Ty Dolla Sign and has modeled merch on her Instagram—responded on X (f.k.a. Twitter) a day later, complimenting Ye's musical mission in the process.
"Ye is up against the system," YesJulz began an epic string of tweets. "Having the discussion with fans in an open forum setting was unconventional, but it allowed for inclusivity & open visibility for an entire fan base to opt in, give feedback, be heard, connect with one another to combine efforts. Which is what i feel is needed for Ye to stay on top for these next two runs. I was also given specific direction to “rally” the fans, let them each lead their own chapters, activate within their locations- etc. This was MY way of doing so. I am not a conventional woman & this is why i worked at the company i worked at in the first place."
The 34-year-old went on to address—among many other things—Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-right figure and Yeezy chief of staff whom she called "Milo Pedofilist."
"I never wanted work done for free," she wrote. "I wanted to help the fans present their work to Ye so that he could hire them instead of stale ass losers who dont know the slightest thing about culture like Ben Priest & Milo Pedofilist to build his company for him. Anyone who has ever been in contact with me for as little as 5 minutes knows the last thing id ever need to steal, is an idea. I’d actually pay to have less as the amount of ideas i have overwhelm me daily."
YesJulz, whose government name is Julieanna Goddard, shared a text where Yiannopoulos brazenly bashed Ye's "Down Syndrome megafans on social media" and insisted that "half of these obsessive megafans online have developmental disorders." She set up the screenshot by writing, "Heres what Milo, the Chief of Staff who controls who gets hired + fired & when they get paid, thinks about the very fan base that fought so hard to get Ye his first #1 in over a decade." (The Vultures 1 track "Carnival" just put Kanye on top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since 2011.)
A leaked email on Tuesday showed Yiannopoulos telling YesJulz that "fines incurred to date as a result of your NDA violations come to $7.7m."
Asked about the nearly $8 million fine on X, she responded, "I dare Milo or any lawyers at YZY to try." Just before that, she simply wrote, "Fuck an NDA. Sue me."
YesJulz also went into her history with Ye, writing that she's teamed with the 46-year-old "officially since 2018 on a number of things (Wyoming roll out, Orphanage donations and build out in Uganda, Community give back initiatives in Chicago, YZY Shdz campaign, etc) & have NEVER thrown that around to benefit off of it, let alone charge an artist for a damn thing despite the fact that i am actually capable of breaking acts & music & very well could accept one of the many offers for payment for song promotion."
She said she hasn't taken a day off since Dec. 11 ("Christmas included") but now has time to get into all of it, continuing, "Not one artist can say i have charged them for my platform. Your favorite streamers, hosts, bloggers, event producers, festivals & promoters etc can NOT say the same. The culture vulture narrative is tired. There are real vultures out there sucking the life from creatives every single day."
"Anywhoo, I say all that to say, none of this BS drama should be the focus right now," she added. "We are witnessing history in the making. We have an opportunity to help one of the most iconic artists of our time fight for the equity that creatives should have always had in their art. An opportunity to finally dismantle the label system. & build a new one where fans & artists are in the drivers seat, reaping the benefits and profits, as they should be. Thats what Ye being #1 this time around means. Thats why rallying the fans is so important."
Julz shared more text messages defending herself. In one, she wrote "Never presented an idea as my own."
She followed up with another tweet, writing "Where's the scam?" She provided more screenshots of text messages showing fans helping with the Vultures rollout.
