Kanye West Concert Suddenly Canceled
Rapper Kanye West was set to play a concert in South Korea later this month, but it sounds like that concert has been abruptly canceled amid the rapper's most recent controversial moves.
Kanye West, who now goes by just Ye, was slated to play a concert in South Korea's Incheon Munhak Stadium on Saturday, May 31. The concert was set to be titled "Bully" after his upcoming demo album by the same name. But unfortunately for Ye, the concert is no longer happening.
On Monday, the concert organizer, Coupang Play, announced that the concert had officially been canceled.
"Due to recent controversies surrounding artist Kanye, the 'YE concert in South Korea' scheduled for May 31 (Saturday) has regrettably been canceled," Coupang Play said in a statement, via South Korean news outlet Chosun Biz.
Coupang Play also announced that the sale of the concert's merchandise would also be suspended.
"Sales of Yeezy brand MD products will also be suspended starting at 1 p.m. on May 19 (Monday)," Coupang Play announced.
This comes after the rapper's latest controversial move as he released a pro-Hitler song called 'Heil Hitler' on May 8, the same day World War II officially ended in 1945. The song featured antisemitic lyrics as well as an excerpt of a speech from a 1935 Adolf Hitler speech.
The song has been banned from major streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube and SoundCloud. Although the instrumental version called The Heil Symphony, is on the streaming sites. The instrumental version was released on May 14.
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