The UK government blocked the rapper from entering the country over his history of making pro-Nazi and racist statements.
It comes a week after the UK announced it would block the rapper from entering the country, where he was due to headline a music festival in summer.
France’s interior minister is seeking to block US rapper Kanye West from performing in the southern city of Marseille in June due to his antisemitic remarks, a source close to the minister said on Tuesday. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez is “highly determined” to ban the June 11 concert at Marseille’s Velodrome stadium and is exploring “all possibilities”, the source said. West, 48, has been heavily criticised for making antisemitic remarks and voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler. Britain has...
West was due to headline the festival in July but drew criticism over past antisemitic comments.
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has been barred from entering the UK, where he was scheduled to perform at the Wireless Festival in July. It came after government officials condemned Ye’s history of antisemitic remarks. The festival’s organisers confirmed the ban and said the entire three-day festival was being cancelled as a result. Ye’s travel authorisation had been blocked on the grounds that the performer’s presence in Britain would not be “conducive to the public good”, the BBC...
The British government was under growing pressure on Monday to bar American rapper Kanye West from entering the country after he was named as the headline act for the Wireless Festival of rap and hip-hop music set for July. West, now known as Ye, has been criticised in the past for antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism, which have led on several occasions to his social media accounts, including on X, being barred. The decision to book Ye prompted several companies to pull their...
The rapper's appearance in London in July has caused controversy because of his past antisemitic comments.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed concern about planned concerts in London by US rapper Kanye West, who has a history of antisemitic outbursts. Campaigners against antisemitism added their voices to the protests on Sunday and Pepsi, sponsors of the festival concerned, pulled out of the event. The disgraced 48-year-old hip-hop star – now known as Ye – is set to play three nights at the Wireless festival in London in July as part of a European comeback tour. Starmer told The Sun...