He can’t blame his mental health issues for being a bad person
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pr0tag5 days ago
+24
Kanye West is an antisemite
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Windows-XP-Home-NEW5 days ago
+1
But aren’t his mental health issues the reason he said that in the first place?
edit: nevermind he did more than I thought
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Lazy-Interests5 days ago
+1
Like what?
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Windows-XP-Home-NEW5 days ago
+2
sa allegations and some other shit
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NobodyLikedThat16 days ago
+269
How this absolute lunatic continues to sell out arenas is wild to me
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DidYouSeeBriansHat6 days ago
+122
Same with Chris Brown.
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Ok-Temporary-82436 days ago
-113
Eh. I talked to a friend about this recently. Ye said insanely hateful things but he was also clearly mentally unwell at the time. My friend was mixed on canceling him forever because hee dealt with friends who had similar issues.
Chris brown is a weirder case because he's a pos woman beater. But said woman he beat forgave him and is/was also one of his biggest supporters. So it's raises the question of why you're angry if the victim isn't
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AntiSocialFCK6 days ago
+52
There’s being Mentally unwell and then theres releasing a track called Heil Hitler.
“Mental Health isn’t your fault but it is your responsibility” The guys got money to get help but spends it making albums glorifying Hitler.
His music is also a pile of shit so we’ve double lucked out there.
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nascarguy191995 days ago
New music or old stuff? Because his recent music is indeed ass. Old stuff, I would disagree.
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Typical_Response64446 days ago
+63
Is your friend actually just you
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Ok-Temporary-82436 days ago
-43
Yeah buddy, I'm as alone as you are
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Clayp22336 days ago
+74
Dude Ye has been openly antisemtic for like 6 years, he made a heil Hitler song last year. He also wore a white lives matter shirt with Candice Owen’s at Paris fashion week. He’s a bigoted piece of shit and deserves to be canceled
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Open_Section99715 days ago
+14
You forgot about the blinged out swatzika he was selling.
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zh_136 days ago
+26
He didn’t just beat up Rihanna, if that’s who you’re talking about that forgives him? Tho idk if she’s a big supporter. He’s beat up and abused multiple women and I don’t think they forgave him at all
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Ok-Temporary-82436 days ago
-30
Yeah, I'm talking about rihanna. She had a pretty major crash out at everyone who supported her when the said it's kinda fucked up to go back to the person who beat you
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periodicsheep6 days ago
+4
because we aren’t a hive mind and we get to have our own thoughts and feelings informed by our own life experiences.
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captcha_trampstamp5 days ago
+5
Dude, I have mental illness but I’ve never praised Hitler publicly.
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CandidBee86955 days ago
+1
Privately?
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Neggor5 days ago
+3
Rihanna is not the only person Brown has assaulted. And her forgiving him doesn't change the fact that he's an abusive piece of shit.
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MrboboCatman4 days ago
+1
What a long way to say I too am a pos.
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AttentionNo63596 days ago
+46
Trash artist has trash fans. Go figure.
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skipsfaster5 days ago
-4
“Trash artist” and it’s the most influential musician of the 21st century
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Admirable_Cicada_8815 days ago
+6
In his case, influential is a very very negative thing
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skipsfaster5 days ago
Big fan of gangsta rap?
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CandidBee86955 days ago
+5
I mean yeah. Same goes for the president.
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astonedishape5 days ago
+2
Lmao that even one person believes that.
He made some really ugly shoes and a hitler song.
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reasonableconsumer4 days ago
+1
Lol kayne isnt even the most influential rapper of the 21st century
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skipsfaster4 days ago
+2
Who is? Also Kanye’s influence is much more about production and sampling than pure rapping.
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reasonableconsumer4 days ago
+1
Does piecing together other people's songs make you a great artist? It's lazy producing, his biggest songs are off the backs of real musicians and I'm saying that as a producer. I guess everyone's opinions are different but I'm not gonna give credit for a whole century to a guy who was hot for the first 10 years of it. Unfortunately the most influential rapper of this century so far was Drake and now Kendrick has that spotlight. People drop what they're doing to listen to Kendrick now, people wouldn't stop anything to listen to another poopity scoop by Kanye.
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skipsfaster4 days ago
+1
Kanye is literally selling out an arena tour despite not putting out good music in 8 years.
Drake is more commercially successful but he’s not as sonically influential. Drake’s sound takes heavily from 808s & Heartbreak. Kendrick is similarly acclaimed to Kanye but he’s nowhere close to as influential; he’s much more in his own lane.
Think of it this way: who’s the most prominent artist that would consider Kendrick their biggest influence? Maybe JID or Baby Keem? Same question for Drake—probably Jack Harlow, Nav, and PartyNextDoor.
Meanwhile, Kanye has a clear link to Drake, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Frank Ocean, Tyler The Creator, Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, Chance The Rapper, and more.
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BadStriker5 days ago
+5
Have you met their fans?
It makes perfect sense
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thebruce6 days ago
+9
Most people just aren't aware of all of the things he did or said, and to be honest, even fewer care. They should, but they don't, and that's unfortunately reality.
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RenderedMeat6 days ago
+9
They say he “apologized” and it’s all in the past.
You don’t just say “my bad” to that shit and get to make millions more.
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Riffsalad5 days ago
+1
Unfortunately with the way people’s attention spans are nowadays he probably can. I bet if he drops another album that’s as good as his early stuff I’ll be hearing some of my liberal but not so online friends talk about how good it is.
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RenderedMeat5 days ago
+1
Yeah, true. I should’ve written “shouldn’t be able to say”.
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Lazy-Interests5 days ago
-6
I mean he does have bipolar
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[deleted]5 days ago
+4
I know 3 people with bipolar and not a single one of them has a bedazzled swastika sweatshirt.
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Lazy-Interests5 days ago
-5
Oh well if you know 3 people with bipolar you obviously know how bipolar affects everyone who has it, I didn’t realise you had such intimate experience with the disorder.
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LinkEfficient99344 days ago
+1
I honestly don't give a f*** if he has bipolar or not. I bought that fuckers music, religiously for 15 years.
Not only did he stop putting quality into that music, he did not use the money he was given to get himself the help he needs.
There are so many people living with bipolar, who don't have the resources Kanye has. Being bipolar doesn't give you a pass to act whatever way you like.
If it seemed like he wasn't self medicating with whippits I'd maybe understand, but yeah, the dude doesn't help himself then gets all spooky when he's come out of a manic rant like "oh I'm sowwy I didn't mean too".
if this dumb m*********** would just just 1 of his millions to get himself some help this shit wouldn't be happening.
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DickDastardly5026 days ago
+4
As an American living in the UK, I am often bemused at how shallow the knowledge of certain American celebrities is among the British public. The Chris Brown concert selling out earlier last year is an example
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AltruisticGrowth53815 days ago
+1
The less you know about celebrities the better.
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cmere-2-me5 days ago
-2
Well if you would deal with your criminals then the rest of us don't need to do it for you.
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MachineGlumkelly5 days ago
-2
This is such a stupid comment I don’t even know where to begin. Chris Brown’s domestic violence cases that I’m aware of happened years ago. Based on Google the average jail time in the UK for domestic violence is 6-12 months. So by your own domestic law standards he would have been out of jail years ago. Then he’d be right back to performing. Maybe his audience shrinks during the jail time. Still doesn’t prevent concerts from happening
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cmere-2-me5 days ago
-1
>Then he’d be right back to performing.
Only if **he has an audience**. In the rest of the world he wouldn't be able to sell his ass after he did tike for beating up Rihanna.
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MachineGlumkelly5 days ago
Buddy he was convicted in 2009. He has had like 3 world tours since then. He has played in the UK multiple times since then. The only country that i can find he’s been denied from is Japan.
You’re just so wrong in so many ways and still sitting on your high horse. Take like 90 seconds to google things before you respond.
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cmere-2-me5 days ago
+1
Because he is **allowed**
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MachineGlumkelly5 days ago
Yeah so allowing a criminal to come into your country, perform multiple concerts, and generate god knows how much money off the concerts doesn’t equate to you dealing with our criminals for us. It’s the exact opposite.
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cmere-2-me5 days ago
+1
Not my criminal. Not my country.
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Valhallawalker5 days ago
+1
Same reason Call of Duty still sells today
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mclovin_ts5 days ago
+1
Take a scroll on Instagram, and you’ll understand
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BeliefBuildsBombs5 days ago
+1
Counter culture
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comfortlevelsupreme5 days ago
+1
It’s your disconnect with reality. Get out and meet real people. Listnook isn’t reality
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BrookieMonster5045 days ago
+1
It's all white supremacists and celebrities
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SerAstynTheScurge5 days ago
-5
His show the other night was phenomenal. Never seen anything like it
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Dodomando6 days ago
I'm guessing you didn't watch the manosphere documentary
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Chrom-man-and-Robin5 days ago
-1
I’ve never heard of it, mind explaining?
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Duck-Murky6 days ago
+25
good, f*** his ignorant ass and everything he stands for!
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AssistanceLucky23926 days ago
+16
The whole festival is cancelled
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mr_d4nks6 days ago
+42
good, there should be consiquences to talking the bullshit he did
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SoulCycle_6 days ago
-24
personally i dont think the government should be banning people from entering the country even if they have extremely bad takes unless they are outright inciting violence
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RealLeaderOfChina5 days ago
+24
He ran his mouth, he applied for a visa, and was rejected because of what he’s gone on record saying.
Just because Americans have to tolerate idiots like these doesn’t mean the rest of the world is required too.
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HordeDruid5 days ago
+4
Vocal support of Nazism and facism IS inciting violence. Violence is always the result and end goal of those ideologies. Either way, can't blame the UK government for denying him entry over his love a man that bombed their country for 8 months.
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Admirable_Cicada_8815 days ago
+1
Exactly
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SoulCycle_5 days ago
-5
look i get what you’re saying but i think this is a slippery slope here.
I agree in this case but i dont think the government should have a hand in deciding which ideologies will eventually down the line result in “inciting violence”
But also kanye is a basically harmless crazy person so im not sure the case by case argument works here tbh.
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HordeDruid5 days ago
+6
Facism is fundamentally a violent idealogy, and Kanye was specifically praising Hitler, the most well-known facist, who used the dictatorial power inherent to said idealogy to commit genocide. There's no "down the line" here, the mass murder already happened.
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Admirable_Cicada_8815 days ago
+2
Promoting Nazism and MAGA bullshit to millions of impressionable young people is extremely harmful...he's not harmless
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TeccaChairCompany6 days ago
+23
MAGA are such losers, Kanye will act like the victim here like they always do
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deadphisherman6 days ago
+16
In reality the only person Kanye truly admires is Kanye.
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Berninz6 days ago
+5
And Donda
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CandidBee86951 day ago
+1
Well - except for the fact that all this white supremacy stuff is actually latent suicidal ideation.
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freakdageek6 days ago
+8
Just for real though? F*** this guy. What a truly rotten awful person.
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Medium_Reality45595 days ago
+3
This headline is missing some commas. Or a rewrite. It’s horribly written.
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Bland_Boring_Jessica6 days ago
+8
Even Big Ben was like, “Not On My Watch, Ye is getting in”…..
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Spiritual-Job-9526 days ago
+11
The Dutch, though, see noooo problem with him coming over this summer to give a few poorly attended stadium shows.
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Physical_Ease66585 days ago
-9
Lol dude broke attendance/revenue records in LA. I think he'll be fine. Your outrage is largely insignificant.
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NeonFraction5 days ago
+3
This is terrible news.
That means he’s still HERE.
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Prestigious_Fan_10616 days ago
+4
Renaming to the YeLess Festival…
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Cool-Association34205 days ago
+5
Good now can we ban him from here?
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sprauncey_dildoes5 days ago
+1
He’s already banned from here. Can’t you read?
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Glitter_is_a_neutral5 days ago
+1
My guess is they mean from the US.
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Equivalent_Worker6875 days ago
+2
Ye's time is up.
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jestzisguy5 days ago
+2
Commas, people, commas!
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cloud9_hi5 days ago
+2
He should get the holographic experts together and build sets with a live hologram. Mimic the space he’ll be playing somewhere here. He could charge twice… just give me 0.50 % of the tours revenue and you can have this idea Kanye.
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AtTheRealFuture5 days ago
+2
Never forget when he said “I *love* Hitler” and even *Alex Jones* wasn’t about it.
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CheezTips5 days ago
+2
He said something like he just wanted to spread "peace and goodwill". So, why can't the idiot spread it in the US instead of traveling to the UK for a music festival? Headlining a 3 day event in another country is the only way? He can pay his GF to walk around naked in LA anytime.
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Purrmymeow6 days ago
+1
Never got the fuss about him. Very style over substance. Considering he is trash human being, good riddance!
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mt806 days ago
+5
He’s been like this from the very beginning.
[Even in that Punk’d episode](https://youtu.be/Abw619ElVqA?si=WsvsHfJK3RmZsEQ8)
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MovieENT16 days ago
+2
Hilariously some of his biggest songs use the beats from iconic songs. So Kanye’s “genius” is taking proven audio hits and yapping some random bullshit on it. Stronger is basically the exact audio of a Daft Punk song…of course it was going to be a hit. If I added random lyrics to Daft Punk tracks I’d sell a million songs too.
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asminaut6 days ago
+12
>Stronger is basically the exact audio of a Daft Punk song…
[Which Daft Punk took from Edwin Birdsong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD39jo5Yo4)
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skipsfaster5 days ago
+4
>If I added random lyrics to Daft Punk tracks I’d sell a million songs too.
If it’s that easy, why don’t you write a hit?
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-stopcrying-5 days ago
+3
reading this made me actually laugh out loud
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No_Performance80706 days ago
+9
Some white people are really just now finding out what sampling is
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Physical_Ease66585 days ago
+1
Lol dude made billions off this. They really have to dig deep to hate. They just gotta stay mad.
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Purrmymeow4 days ago
There is a difference between sampling some songs and build your career on samples. Kanye is more of the second one.
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No_Performance80704 days ago
+2
Then you build a career off it. It takes a lot of creativity to find the right samples. Then you have to build the production around a relatively short loop (although not all samples are used as loops) and keep it dynamic and interesting. He will also completely change the atmosphere and intention of the original music to fit his vision. Virtually all hip-hop is sample based but Kanye got his reputation for how he is able to use those samples. Even artists he has sampled from have commented on how creatively he uses their music. Plus, Kanye is known for bringing a more melodic style into the genre, creating some of his songs from scratch or using minimal sampling. He also often draws from unexpected places. You can find YouTube videos comparing the sample to the final product and you can see exactly all the things that changed and how creatively they are used.
Composers borrow phrases and techniques from each other all the time. Film scoring is largely built on the convenience of borrowing ideas from established/historical composers in a way that fits the mood of the film. Doesn’t mean all film composers all make equally good work or that the production doesn’t take a lot of creativity. Hip-hop is built off sampling in part because the people making it originally didn’t have access to instruments and studios etc. Once artists had the ability to do that kind of thing, it became an interesting hybrid. Kanye, for example, has a live album (not officially released) all done with an orchestra backing
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953chloe5 days ago
+3
really stupid f****** comment
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WittyAd38725 days ago
+2
I’m saying this as a POC — a lot of us are toxic af but nobody is allowed to say that out loud. The people of my particular ethnic group are deeply homophobic and racist, they just don’t have any power.
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pennlive6 days ago
+1
The festival’s organizers confirmed the ban and said the entire three-day festival was being canceled as a result.
Ye’s travel authorization had been blocked on the grounds that the performer’s presence in the U.K. would not be “conducive to the public good,” the BBC said, citing the Home Office.
Ye had been expected to perform in front of around 150,000 revelers July 10-12 at the open-air festival in London’s Finsbury Park.
Earlier, a senior member of the British government said Ye should “absolutely not” play at the festival. Ye had responded to the controversy by offering to meet members of the U.K.’s Jewish community and show he has changed since provoking outrage with antisemitic statements.
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Complex_Win_54086 days ago
+1
Does pennlive know what punctuation is?
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razvanciuy5 days ago
+1
Ye stey out yee pee froth
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blueishblackbird5 days ago
+1
Yea, England isn’t fond of Hitler admirers. Odd that they still put up with another famous American d***** bag.
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Specialist_Tip8284 days ago
+1
I understand what you’re saying, maybe edit for clarity?
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AttemptFree2 days ago
+1
He said that a long time ago and apologized since. Give him a break, he's regarded
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dale_aintdead5 days ago
+1
Former Al Queda leader tho? Welcome in 🫶
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dionpadilla15 days ago
+1
F****** with these kids’ cash is the only thing they understand
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Quick-Economist-42475 days ago
+1
What, Kanye admired Hitler from entering Britain? What the hell does that even mean, have you ever studied English grammar?
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BrownLuka6 days ago
-1
They refuse to let Kanye in, but allow Israeili war criminals into the country
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Jx____6 days ago
can they also block armed US aircraft from
their airspace ?
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Rich_Housing9715 days ago
-2
horrible title.
"UK Blocks Kanye West from entering UK due to comments admiring Hitler" should be the headline if the Hitler comments were explicitly stated to be the cause. if it's just the suspected cause, it should be in the lede.
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Enough_Asparagus_4886 days ago
-2
they don't understand the things he says on Twitter
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Schadenfruede_dude5 days ago
-2
I just wanna comment something but also don’t wanna be banned.
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