Kanye West’s Former Bodyguard Reveals Kanye West Ridiculous Rules

Kanye West’s former bodyguard Steve Sanulis has revealed some of the ‘ridiculous rules’ the rapper made him stick to while he was working for him.  Steve, who got into being a celebrity bodyguard after working as a stripper and a policeman (yes, at the same time), opened up about some of the demands Kanye asked him for. 

Speaking on the Hollywood Raw podcast with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn, Steve revealed that some of Ye’s demands didn’t make much sense.  He explained: ‘He wanted you to stay 10 paces behind him on a city street. So obviously if someone is going to come up and do something, by the time I try to run up and prevent it, it would have already happened.’

Steve appeared to start his employment with Kanye on the wrong footing after committing a faux pas in Kanye’s eyes on his very first day.  He explained: ‘The first day I met him…it was fashion week. I was supposed to meet him at the studio.

‘When he gets there, we get into the elevator and he’s says “Aren’t you going to push what floor we are going to?”  ‘I was like “I have no idea what floor, it’s my first day.” So he starts ranting, “So you mean you didn’t call ahead to find out where I’m supposed to be going?” I said “no”. ‘So he’s ranting and raving. 

So I said “Look bro, we can do this one of three ways. One, you could tell me what button to press, and now I’ll know. Two, you could press the button, and I’ll see which one you press so I’ll know. Or three, you can sit in here all day and tell me how important your time is and we are not going to go anywhere.”

Again, that was our first interaction. He went for the first option.’ Steve also let slip that he thinks Kanye was ‘one of my least favourite people to work with over the course of time’, and that he suspects he and Kim Kardashian would call the paparazzi on themselves.

He revealed; ‘First of all, there’s no way [paparazzi] doesn’t get called upfront. There’s no way every time they are leaving, all these people know about it.  ‘There’s definitely somebody calling ahead. That’s just my opinion… I’m just saying it coincidental that wherever we are, they’re always there. Maybe they’re just better than I think they are.’