Kanye West Sued For Allegedly Locking Performers In High School For 4 Days, Stealing Song Arrangements
Taylor says West locked him and 150 other performers in a Wyoming band room to create an unwritten opera and later used his work without pay.
- On Wednesday, musician Chase Taylor filed a federal lawsuit against Kanye West , alleging the rapper locked him in a Cody High School band room and demanded he compose an entire opera from scratch in four days.
- The Cody High School band room could not support more than 150 performers involved in Nebuchadnezzar, as Taylor claims West's team allegedly ignored basic needs, forcing musicians to sleep on the floor.
- West's plans for the opera were "built of air," with no score or plan in place; Taylor claims he has not received promised compensation nearly seven years later despite West's continued use of his arrangements.
- A spokesman for Ye did not return a request for comment from Billboard on Friday; this litigation follows previous class actions against West, one of which settled for $1.35 million in 2024.
- The 45-minute opera received negative reviews, with the Los Angeles Times calling it a "Nebuchadsnoozer." Musician Willie Alexander filed a similar lawsuit last year, claiming he had been "shocked" to discover the opera was unwritten.
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Kanye West Accused of Holding Musicians Against Their Will to Finish 2019 Opera
On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, a lawsuit was filed in North Carolina by a musician named Chase Taylor. He filed the lawsuit against Kanye West for allegedly holding the musician against his will in an attempt to quickly finish his 2019 biblical opera, Nebuchadnezzar. Initially, Taylor assumed the project was much further along than it […]
Kanye West Sued For Allegedly Locking Performers In High School For 4 Days, Stealing Song Arrangements
Kanye West is facing a new lawsuit from performer Chase Taylor, accusing the rapper of locking him and other performers inside a Wyoming high school room for four days to compose music for his 2018 biblical opera Nebuchadnezzar. West has been the subject of numerous employee lawsuits over the last few years, claiming abuse and […] The post Kanye West Sued For Allegedly Locking Performers In High School For 4 Days, Stealing Song Arrangements appe…
Kanye West's legal adventures are not over, as he faces another lawsuit for abusive working conditions in 2019. Musician and performer Chase Taylor accuses him of "multiple unfair and deceptive trade practices," describing exhausting practices during their collaboration. According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Taylor describes what allegedly happened during the preparation of the 49-year-old rapper's opera "Nebuchadnezzar," which wa…
American rapper Kanye West faced a new lawsuit because of his opera, Navujodnosor (Navodnosor), Compositor Chase Taylor claims that in 2019, a rapper team locked him in a music class at Wyoming School and actually forced him to finish the opera in four days...
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