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Cassius Clay: The Teen Who Walked Away From Kanye WestIn his first interview since 2010, Cassius reveals the ups and downs of what it was like working for the hottest rapper alive—and what came next.In the summer of 2010, Cassius Clay met Kanye West during a shopping trip at Barneys New York. Kanye complimented his velvet Stubbs & Wootton slippers, which featured jousting knights on the top of the foot. The two talked about the slippers, and Alber Elbaz’s and Lucas Ossendrijver’s designs for Lanvin. Eventually, they exchanged email addresses. Kanye didn’t have a cell phone at the time.A few weeks later, they ran into each other again, this time in SoHo. At the end of August, Cassius, who had just started his sophomore year at Yale, received an email from Kanye asking if he was interested in working for him as a junior creative consultant. https://www.complex.com/style/a/karizza-sanchez/cassius-clay-profile