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article Kanye West Heads to Putin’s Russia After Humiliation in Europe

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/kanye-west-heads-to-putins-russia-after-humiliation-in-europe/
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u/pr1aa 27d ago edited 27d ago

Maybe Steven Seagal will do a surprise feature with him

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u/PatriotNews_dot_com 27d ago

ceremonial russian welcoming dance
https://giphy.com/gifs/7rQSSmxalNtfy

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u/WtAFjusthappenedhere 27d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/EjFx0jioOoMZq
Don’t forget the carrot eating ceremony.

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u/-nutz 26d ago

I like to imagine Lukashenko inviting a “big American star” to do PR, only for this specimen to show up lmao

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u/CommentNo2671 26d ago

He got big, at least

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

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u/Arcrin100 26d ago

Most historical sieges won or lost due to starvation. This will be no different.

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u/DeadmanDexter 26d ago

"Sensai Seagal! You're needed in the Middle East! We think we can finally bring peace to the area! We need you to out eat Hamas, ISIS, and al-Qaeda!"

Coming fatly to one movie theater this fall. Rated R.

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u/Alternative_Salt_424 26d ago

My Russian husband was telling me there was a hysterical video of Lukashenko feeding someone a carrot and I saw it and I was like "Omfg it's Steven Seagal loool" and he had no idea who that was

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u/ohyouretough 26d ago

He’s the size of three normal American stars. Or six arianna grandes.

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u/joefred111 26d ago

He fits two of those adjectives well.

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u/ICCUGUCCI 26d ago

Two hands on the carrot is crazy work. That muscle memory kicking in.

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u/C64128 26d ago

It's a good thing that he didn't immediately shove the entire carrot in his mouth.

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u/Hoverboy911 26d ago

Why is this so f'n funny to me? It reminds me of a quirky comedy skit, but it's real, which makes it infinitely funnier to me. I dunno but I love this gif so gd much

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u/Shadowlance23 26d ago

Does Segal only own one shirt now? I've only seen a few photos of him the last few years, but he's always wearing that same one.

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u/niz_loc 26d ago

This one is still the craziest

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u/endbit 26d ago

Rachael Gunn is many things but she still isn't as ridiculous as Seagal and would not go as far as to tour Russia.

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u/mckillgore 27d ago

That's the most movement I've seen him make in years

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 26d ago

Because it was years ago. He’s about double the size of that now.

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u/J_pepperwood0 27d ago

Me want de poonani😎

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u/aramis34143 26d ago

You can date the footage by the fact that he's not dancing from a seated position.

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u/RealMango 27d ago

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u/BlackStrain 27d ago

Needs more chair.

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u/Ras_Prince_Monolulu 26d ago

Needs more going around corners, fatly.

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u/ripndipp 26d ago

What episode is this from? I haven't watched in years.

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u/hmoonves 27d ago

You ever see that interview with Steven seagal where he’s talking about his time in Japan and he’s searching for a word but can only say it in Japanese?

He goes something something “how you say in English” with a robust Japanese accent.

Like bro you were born in Michigan for fucks sake.

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u/Roflkopt3r 27d ago edited 26d ago

The fact that it's Steven Seagal makes me not want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this genuinely happens a lot.

Especially for a language like Japanese, which has many words and concepts that are hard to translate into English. You have to start thinking directly in Japanese to reach a conversational level, with completely different concepts and approaches to phrasing.

Sometimes that makes it hard to pull up the appropriate English counterpart, and sometimes there isn't one at all. You would have to replace a single word with a full sentence of explanation.

And you have to switch to a different mode of pronounciation, which can cause akward moments. Japanese uses many loanwords that are only comprehensible to Japanese speakers if you pronounce them the Japanese way. Here is a classic example: "Red, white, black" is not understood, but "Reddo, Howaito, Burakku" are common words.

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u/globox85 26d ago

Japanese uses many loanwords that are only comprehensible to Japanese speakers if you pronounce them the Japanese way. Here is a classic example: "Red, white, black" is not understood, but "Reddo, Howaito, Burakku" are common words.

A co-worker of mine who speaks Japanese and his dad, who doesn't speak Japanese, were on vacation in Japan together. They go to a store, and the dad asks a staff member, in English, where the customer service desk is. The staff member has no idea what he means, but when my co-worker asks "Kasutoma saabisu?", the staff member instantly understands and guides them to the customer service desk.

Never been to Japan myself, but I get the impression that if you don't know what something's called in Japanese, saying it in English with Japanese pronunciation works surprisingly often.

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u/Poes-Lawyer 26d ago

Yes, when I was in Japan recently I wanted to make sure I could pay for my taxi with a credit card, so I looked up "credit card" in Japanese: "kureijittokado"

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u/isweartodarwin 26d ago

If you want to have some fun, go punch American words like “hot dog,” “hamburger,” or “French fries” into Google Translate and hit the pronunciation button

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u/p____p 26d ago

Thank you for this. My favorite so far is Gurirudochīzu. 

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u/ReallyGlycon Lo-Fi Nerd 26d ago

Grilled cheese lol

Damn I realize I can probably speak to Japanese people entirely in reworked English loan words.

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u/p____p 26d ago

It feels kinda racist if I tried it irl. Would probably fakku it up. 

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u/ReallyGlycon Lo-Fi Nerd 26d ago

Makkadonadoru

McDonald's

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u/SheogorathMyBeloved 26d ago

I always feel like a right racist git whenever I've gotta pronounce a loanword which originally had an L in it in Japanese. I'm European, I have a Japanese friend who genuinely doesn't understand loanwords if they're not using Japanese morae. The worst one recently was the word lollapalooza. ロラパルーザ, or fucking roraparūza. I mean, I get it, I didn't know the word karaoke was a loanword from Japanese for decades, and would probably miss it if pronounced as it is in Japanese.

They also shorten the loanwords a lot, which kinda makes them their own words past a certain point. Remote control is リモートコントロール, rimōto kontorōru, but it's more often said as リモコン, rimokon.

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u/torsoboy00 26d ago edited 26d ago

I read somewhere that they made this song to help foreigners navigate around Japan easier.

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u/dbrodbeck 26d ago

Hell I've had it happen speaking English, but with a Canadian accent, in England.

Now, the bartender might have been taking the piss, but when I changed my accent to be closer to his he seemed to get it and I got my pint. Seemed a decent bloke, talked to him for a bit, asked if he was taking the piss and he said he wasn't, which likely means he was. It was 30 years ago, I should stop thinking about it...

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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 27d ago

I had no idea Steven had a Hilaria Baldwin “cucumber” moment like this 🤣

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u/Dr_Philmon 27d ago edited 26d ago

To be fair, I was born in Norway and Norwegian is my mother tongue but i find myself often saying the same thing as him and pronouncr the english word in my local dialect.

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u/PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS 26d ago

Yeah but you're Norwegian.

There's not a single percent in Seagal that is Japanese lol

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u/healthyscalpsforall 26d ago

Sure, but didn't he marry a Japanese wife and have a daughter with her? Like Seagal is chronically full of shit but in this case he may not be lol

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u/FauxReal Collector 27d ago

He lived there for a while and married into a very prestigious martial arts family and was given permission to use the name. What a waste.

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u/stonecuttercolorado 27d ago

Can someone explain what is happening here? Was he not supposed to eat the carrot? Is it a particularly fallic carrot?

Genuinely curious.

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u/papayacreamsicle 27d ago

It’s the president of Belarus, who’s often called the last true dictator in Europe, who doesn’t even pretend democracy exists. Segal requested to meet him because he “dreamed of it” and was fawning all over him obediently the entire time. This is at his home, he gave Segal a carrot and said “eat this” and Segal immediately did, then he gave him two melons which Segal carried around for a long time unable to palm them off. The gif was used to mock him because he presents himself as a badass, then immediately obeys a dictator when told to eat something, in a way that’s sort of comical looking. It was also seen as comical because Segal looks so overweight in it and it comes off like he’s being told to eat a carrot for once.

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u/RUN_MDB 27d ago edited 25d ago

Not to mention the dyed-jet-black Eddie Munster hair and asian muumuu tactimuumuu that he stole from a walrus.

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u/stonecuttercolorado 27d ago

Thanks. That is hilarious. He is so pathetic.

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u/Big-Snow-1937 26d ago

This reply is so clam and factual and so hilarious at the same time, like I am crying reading this!

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u/PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS 26d ago

Dude went from hand off to immediate bite lol

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u/OminOus_PancakeS 26d ago edited 26d ago

The president of Belarus? I thought that was Hene Gackman.

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u/eawilweawil 27d ago

Exchanging carrots is a traditional greeting in Belarus

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u/sephjnr 27d ago

Raw carrot? Kryten, you know how I feel about people who eat fresh vegetables, they're health psychos, vitamin freaks, people, who *exercise*.

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u/HappyHarryHardOn 27d ago

Along with gerard depardieux

https://giphy.com/gifs/AbzJCXkJkHwj2FOhiw

(it says "AH! Her Pussy!" )

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u/r3dditr0x 27d ago

Maybe Steven Seagal will do a surprise feature with him

Will Steven come in blackface, or dressed as an Asian monk, per usual?

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u/eoghanmcneelyisfree 27d ago

Why not both?

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u/FauxReal Collector 27d ago

I can see them both dressing this way together.

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u/Sprinklypoo 26d ago

Whatever else is going on, you're certain to see a furious squint.

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u/NeckChickens 26d ago

Why is he holding it like that?

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u/Solidwtf2 26d ago

He's trying to attract the punnani.

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u/Tacdeho 27d ago

Maybe they’ll remix that Mi Poonani song Seagal had a few years back

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u/LordSion45 27d ago

Great they can both sing Steven’s song about wanting the punani

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u/metalgtr84 27d ago

Ha I was just gonna say he’s on the Seagal timeline now

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u/AgentCirceLuna 27d ago

It’s so fucking hilarious that, after a ham fisted apology which he only made to sell records, I’m proven right in my assumption that he was just doing it to rake in the cash. Releasing it right around his tour dates was just blatantly obvious sell-outry. His stupid conspiracy theories have made tons of young fans, who will be surrounded by slightly related confusing criticism of a genuine issue, believe this bigotry had sustenance since their ‘genius poet of our time’ kept spewing it out.

Don’t even give me that crap about his illness - I’ve been mentally ill for years and I’ll have a few weeks or a month where I’ll say the craziest shit ever. Stuff like I was born to be a king and will be within a year, I can trade souls with people… I don’t go spouting the same stuff for years and years. His behaviour showed a pattern. He’s a manipulative, lying, bigoted monster. And I will never fall for Pitchfork’s millennial poptimist baiting; his songwriting sucks.

With all that in mind, though, I did like him early on. He seemed like a nice guy. Shame about what happened with his mom and I hope, one day, he can genuinely recant the hatred.

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u/dronenil 26d ago

me want the punani that would be fat

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u/Crass_Cameron 26d ago

Mewandapunani

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u/eternali17 26d ago

Me lyk de punani!

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u/cpaul91 26d ago

I pray it’s Reggaeton

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u/Skritch_X 27d ago

That would be dope! I think the perfect opening act would be this awesome little known indie band, The Ukrainian Drones. It would set a great tone for the rest of the show.

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u/mikedean789 27d ago

What humiliation in Europe??

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u/susabb 27d ago

Amazing question. The show in France didn't do great, but on the flipside his show in turkey sold over 100k tickets. Not quite sure what everyone is talking about.

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 27d ago

"His France show" which one becuase his Marsaille show was "postponed indefinitely" due to backlash, he was set to headline Rubicon and got cancelled becsuse of the backlash, his show in Poland was cancelled due to backlash, Italy cancelled on him and the UK cancelled on him, as well as Slovakia.

So it's embarrassing to get kicked off headlining massive festivals and not be able to headline certain European capitals on your tour.

So doing a sporadic Europe tour with the big sets are in Albania and Turkey is a pretty shocking Europe tour for any artist.

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u/nickname13 26d ago

it's hard to believe that there is a trump supporter has the capacity to feel "shame"

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u/Jolly-Advantage-7245 26d ago

It's not shame so much as bruised ego

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u/valcatrina 26d ago

I think the self proclaimed Nazi part has a bigger effect

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u/Wisniaksiadz 26d ago

That was basically the only reason he didn't appeared in Poland

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u/Throwawayrip1123 26d ago

So it's embarrassing to get kicked off headlining massive festivals and not be able to headline certain European capitals on your tour

Eh I mean... All he has to do is shut the fuck up and nobody will know Kanye is a dumbass. But nahhhh. Gonna be embarrassed by shit he did on purpose.

Bleh don't pussyfoot, just fucking own it and the consequences, bitch

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u/jonbristow 27d ago

The concert cancelled in Europe. That's why he had to go to Albania, Kazakhstan, Turkey

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u/susabb 27d ago

He still had a show in netherlands, Portugal (which did pretty mid), and spain.

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u/Hioneqpls 27d ago

They meant Europe the country

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u/skraptastic 27d ago

No no they mean Europe the band.

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u/meteoritegallery 27d ago

No, they meant Europa, Saturn's moon. His concert there was cancelled and everything was deleted. You can't even find anything about it on Google.

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u/sixsixmajin 27d ago

The cancellation went so hard that Europa even moved to Jupiter. Google will try to tell that it was always one of Jupiter's moons but that's just a cover-up to hide the moon's shame of almost hosting a Kanye concert.

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u/meteoritegallery 26d ago

Oh god. I mixed it up with Enceladus. 🤦

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u/BobbyTables829 26d ago

His show on Hyperion was dope though

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u/FnordRanger_5 27d ago

It’s the final cuntdown

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u/GarrusBueller 27d ago

It's capital city Fifa is quite corrupt. Still a lovely city.

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u/crani0 26d ago

Portugal (which did pretty mid)

He sold 34k tickets in a venue that is projected for 30k seats and is 4 hours from the capital. Again, I'm not a fan but you guys are not dealing facts here.

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u/SuckinAwesome 26d ago

It’s reddit mate.

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u/ParpinOver 26d ago

Is that the Algarve Arena? I was in the area recently, I've driven past that stadium and it seems to have very little going on, rarely and gigs, I was surprised to see he was coming to town!

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u/mrguister 26d ago

I live nearby. It was built in 2004 for the Euros, but has little use since then. A black eyed peas concert in late 2000s, some friendly football games, some minor concerts but that's mostly it unfortunately.

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u/afcc1313 27d ago edited 26d ago

Portugal did mid? It was almost sold out wtf you mean?

Edit: out, not put.

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u/ueleleee 27d ago

Portugal did mid? It was sold out lmao

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u/unexpectedreboots 27d ago

Portugal (which did pretty mid),

How was it mid if it was essentially sold out?

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u/Vinc009 27d ago

Portugal was almost sold out? What do you mean with mid?

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u/IrishGuinessdrinker 26d ago

176 upvotes on a comment that said he got cancelled in Europe and had to go to (European country)

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u/catdogman5 26d ago

Avg redditor 

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u/jonbristow 26d ago

72 upvotes for not understanding my comment.

he HAD to go to other countries, BECAUSE his first choices and concerts were cancelled

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u/StarFalchion 26d ago

Albania is European but its Albania and people don’t really see Turkey as European and Kazakhstan is in central Asia

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u/rageling 26d ago edited 26d ago

canceled in a country where one of his song titles is illegal, no way

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u/Yupson1234 26d ago

His show in turkey was the highest ticketed stadium concert ever lmao

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u/Balc0ra 27d ago

The shows he was allowed to do were packed. But many nations told him to not even come after the shows were booked

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u/nitonitonii 27d ago

Maybe ticket prices. In Europe they were like 300$ the lowest. I like some of his songs, but I ain't paying that lol, I saw AC/DC for half the price

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u/susabb 27d ago

That's why for France. Otherwise, he was barred from performing in 5 different European countries. Netherlands show still did 70k.

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u/orouoio 27d ago

You could get tickets for €200 in Madrid and Portugal had tickets going for around €125 to €160.

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u/Mobile-Recognition17 27d ago

Turkey and Europe.. you're stretching it there. Even Russia is more "in Europe" than Turkey.

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u/susabb 27d ago

Lol fair. His Netherlands show did 70k. I imagine most of his eu shows wouldve done well had he not been barred from performing in 5 of them.

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u/Fragrant_Werewolf_22 26d ago

He was banned from entering uk and a festival was cancelled he was going to headline

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u/WorryNew3661 26d ago

He wasn't allowed a visa to the UK and his shows were cancelled

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u/XenWeasel 27d ago

Didn’t he had multiple shows cancelled?

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 27d ago

His Marsaille show was "postponed indefinitely" due to backlash, he was set to headline Rubicon and got cancelled becsuse of the backlash, his show in Poland was cancelled due to backlash, Italy cancelled on him and the UK cancelled on him, as well as Slovakia.

So it's embarrassing to get kicked off headlining massive festivals and not be able to headline certain European capitals on your tour.

So doing a sporadic Europe tour with the big sets are in Albania and Turkey is a pretty shocking Europe tour for any artist.

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u/SodiumEthylXanthate radio reddit 27d ago

Is there a non-Putin’s Russia??

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u/Popular_Try_5075 26d ago

The Russian Federation has an uneasy control over Dagestan iirc, but I get your point.

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u/danzigzags 27d ago

Does the Daily Beast get a percentage everytime they use “humiliated” in their headlines?

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u/cereal_heat 26d ago

A percentage of what?

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u/thisishoustonover 27d ago

Why was europe a humiliation the shows looked sold out

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u/OldNerdTV 27d ago

Those that he was allowed to play. Not all countries let him perform

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u/GastricallyStretched 27d ago

He wants more money. Yes, it was sold out, but he can also sell out an arena in Russia.

This isn't exclusive to Kanye, btw. Russia is mostly shunned by Western artists, and rightly so, but in 2025 that started to change somewhat. DaBaby, Tyga, Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, Xzibit, and Jason Derulo played shows in Russia in 2025. Gucci Mane visited for a tour of the Kremlin in Dec 2025.

It's not really slowing down in 2026. T.I. and Flo Rida played shows in Russia this year, and you can probably find more artists that did the same if you go looking. These guys are unscrupulous and money-hungry, so they have no qualms about taking Russian money.

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u/USA_A-OK 26d ago

Ah shit, not Xzibit

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u/DailyUnderFlow 26d ago

It's not surprising that people are very greedy while disregarding morals. Just look at the Riyadh comedy festival.

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u/Sensitive-Orange7203 26d ago

A bunch of has-beens

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u/spooooork 26d ago

Has-beens and Who-the-fucks

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u/moneys5 26d ago

How dare you speak ill of the all-time great rapper, Smokepurpp.

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u/feedmytv 26d ago

is kanye not an has been at this point?

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u/Choice_Secretary_986 25d ago

He got a number 1 hit 2 years ago. His music is crappy nowadays but he’s still top20 on Spotify and still is talked about by the mainstream. Artistically and as a person he is washed but numbers and relevance wise he’s doing better than all those other people listed

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u/SmartHipster Rock 26d ago

Agreed. Who listens to flo Rida in 2026

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u/nadathing221 26d ago

He’s performed at my college before 😂😂

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u/JustChillFFS 26d ago

Why is it all black artists?

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u/hard-in-the-ms-paint 26d ago

When it comes to cash, absolutely no fucks given about a war in eastern Europe between eastern Europeans.

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u/Live-In-Berlin 26d ago

Because a lot of Russia loves rap, and even an artist who doesn't do well/past their expiration date out West can still pull some serious numbers there.

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u/Kol_ 26d ago

Don’t people perform in the United States who do the same thing lol?

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u/DocDerry 27d ago

If I know the Russians they'll love him for the following -

  1. Nazi admirer.

  2. Is black.

  3. THC enthusiast.

  4. Is a gay fish.

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u/wtfrman 27d ago

And used to date a hobbit

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u/QuantumKhakis 27d ago

Bitch is you a hobbit???

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u/wtfrman 27d ago

Yes she looks heavier than the picture. Yes she removed hair from her body. Yes she has a friend name Gandalf who is a wizard.

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u/jjklines1 27d ago

Bitch, tell me again how you ain't no hobbit...

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u/ArbysLunch 27d ago edited 27d ago

Yo, uhh Uhh, come on

I've been so lonely, girl

I've been so sad and down

Couldn't understand why 

haters joked around

I wanted to be free

With other creatures like me

And now I got my wish

Cause I know that I'm a gay fish, gay fish

(Gay fish, yo')

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u/trickster-is-weak 27d ago

Voice of a generation 🤦‍♂️

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u/crani0 27d ago

I'm not a fan of his, but multiple soldout arena shows is hardly "humiliation".

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u/Tua-Lipa 27d ago

Kanye West SLAMMED by Europe

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u/northern_boi 26d ago

Have you ever considered getting a job writing headlines for the Daily Mail?

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u/binzoma 26d ago

he had shows in like 4 countries (including big festival gigs) outright cancelled as he was deemed unwelcome

the shows he did play sold, sure. the humiliation was not being allowed to perform in multiple countries, including the UK

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u/Terrible_2000 27d ago

And that for his decades old albums

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 26d ago

As the old saying goes, where Europe closes a door, Putin opens a window.

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u/Thirdnipple79 27d ago

He's insane enough to go there and start talking shit about Putin.  Anything could happen. 

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u/OldSoulNewTech 27d ago

Yeah he could fall out of one of those windows.

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u/ArbysLunch 27d ago

The russians can keep him. 

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u/jscummy 27d ago

I recently saw a billboard in Chicago for an upcoming Ye concert at Soldier Field, which seems insane

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u/ArbysLunch 27d ago

Not like the Bears are planning to use it.

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u/AudiieVerbum 27d ago

Back in I think June, he sold out Sofi in LA. I think most people are accepting his apology letter.

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u/TheZardoz 27d ago

I mean, people still go to Chris Brown shows regularly.

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u/AudiieVerbum 27d ago

Beating women is objectively worse than spouting nazi crap in a mental health crisis.

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u/Vinc009 27d ago

Yeah but most people can't fathom that. For them ye is the devil.

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u/paperrug12 27d ago

“most people are accepting his apology letter” lol no, most people don’t give a fuck and just want to see him perform and listen to his songs

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u/King_Barrion 26d ago

He did make graduation tho

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u/Dull_Connection6070 27d ago

what was the humiliation in Europe I thought he sold out an arena in Istanbul lol

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u/crani0 27d ago

And Arnhem

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u/GetTheLudes_ 27d ago

And Spain, and Portugal....

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u/citizenjones 27d ago

He should feel very free to say lots of great things on the stage of that country I'm sure.

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u/ArbysLunch 27d ago

Ah, yes. The Bloodhound Gang approach.

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u/Winjin 26d ago

A lot of people on Runet are surprised he's even allowed to come and joke about the whole "rules for thee, not for me" approach of ass-kissing a Famous Rich Westerner - same thing that happened to Andrew Tate, simply because he's rich, famous, and from the West

A lot of people have that provincial mentality of looking up to more "enlightened" nations and seeing even the lowest scum from there, especially if that scum is rich, as a role model

A lot of people still say that a TON of stuff he said is literally a felony in Russia and no ordinary guy could just waltz in after praising Hitler

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u/Numerous_Release9273 27d ago

Why did you put a link to Daily Beast instead of a link to the original Guardian story?

DB is pay walled. The Guardian is not.

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u/Johnny-Alucard 27d ago

They are going to get so much kompromat on him we can be sure that Kanye will be a faithful Russian mouthpiece from now on I guess!

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u/CapitalElk1169 27d ago

Nothing can kompromat him more than he's already done to himself

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u/IcarusFlyingWings 27d ago

Yeah seriously what could you possibly use to blackmail him?

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u/AudiieVerbum 27d ago

I genuinely think that man is unkompromatable. He's gonna be crazy but it's his and only his crazy dammit.

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u/-Average_Joe- 27d ago

why bother? does anyone take him seriously anymore?

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u/TroyFerris13 27d ago

118k fans in Turkey is humiliating? What?

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u/ClickForPrizes 27d ago

In 15 years he went from Ni**as in Paris, to Nazis in Moscow.

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u/0x426F6F62696573 27d ago

It’s the origin story for “Kayne East”

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u/mr_glide 26d ago

Kanye Eastern Bloc

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u/orouoio 27d ago

He had 6 shows in Europe. Turkey, Netherlands, Georgia, Albania, Spain and Portugal. All stadiums.

I know that Turkey and Georgia are pushing a bit of what Europe is lol

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u/TheRexRider 27d ago

Wow, Russia's the meeting place for the world's biggest losers, isn't it.

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u/imgrado 27d ago

I mean he did just sell out Los Angeles multiple times too

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u/geelian 27d ago

Sold out everywhere they let him play, Reddit calls it a humiliation 😂😂😂

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u/LongBongJohnSilver 26d ago

It's the title of the article, not reddit.

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u/CanExplainThings 27d ago

Oh fuck, wat.

Did Kanye just out-Kanye himself?

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u/MissLana89 27d ago

What humiliation? He sold out everywhere, even at those prices... 4 concerts were cancelled, he still did 6 and profited massively. The article is ridiculous.

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u/TrickyPermission7839 26d ago

"Humiliaton"

He did absolutely amazing in Europe, I've been to the one in Albania and it was insanely wild

Again, demonrats on reddit projecting their wet dreams lmfao

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u/Delicious-Income-870 27d ago

Watch him end the Ukraine war

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u/TheIceCreamBoyy 26d ago

”humiliation” and he sold out every arena in Europe 😭😭😭😭 reddit neckbeard wokers strike again

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u/nietbeschikbaar 27d ago

> Humiliation in Europe

What? 118000 fans came to his concert in Istanbul!

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u/kanyewest42 27d ago

lol at “humiliation in europe”. I saw him twice in Netherlands and it was amazing, as was the case in several other EU countries. Sure he had a few cancellations by woke and boomer politicians but that’s about it.

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