Kanye West's European Tour Faces Backlash

0:00It's April 17th. Entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI-powered and spotlight-ready. I'm Corey with the story. Kanye West's concert in Poland just got canceled. The big show at Silesian Stadium in Chordsau, set for June 19th, his first there in 15 years, won't happen now. The venue blamed formal and legal reasons after heavy government pushback over his anti-Semitic, racist, and pro-Nazi remarks. Poland's culture minister called booking him straight up unacceptable. This follows the UK banning him from entering to headline, wireless festival, which then shut down completely. His Marseille gig in France got postponed too. All part of his rocky European tour. Folks in Poland are feeling this hard because of the country's brutal World War II history. Nazis invaded Chordsau first in September 1939 and Randolph camps there that killed three million Polish Jews. Promoting Nazi stuff as a crime, punishable by up to three years in prison.

1:03West tried apologizing back in January with a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, saying he's not a Nazi or anti-Semite that he loves Jewish. People and bipolar disorder made him loose touch with reality. But three months later, he dropped a track called Heil Hitler, blaming custody fights and frozen assets for his Nazi turn. With these cancellations piling up, his tour is looking shaky, forcing everyone to reckon with where art ends and hate begins. Stay tuned as this unfolds.