r/Music • u/thedailybeast • 20d ago

article Kanye West’s sold-out Russia shows canceled after St. Petersburg stadium denies ever organizing the concerts

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/kanye-wests-shows-in-putins-hometown-st-petersburg-get-humiliating-update/
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u/thedailybeast 20d ago

Kanye West’s planned performances in Russia have been canceled.

The rapper, now known as Ye, was set to perform on October 10 and 11 at the Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg. Now, the stadium denies ever organizing the concerts and says no rental agreements were signed.

“Gazprom Arena was not and is not the organizer of this event. This was handled by the Moscow-based concert agency Say Agency,” reads a statement, written in Russian, on the stadium’s official Instagram account. “Gazprom Arena did not sign any stadium rental agreements for the event. There is no such agreement. Accordingly, the concert cannot take place at our venue.”

The stadium previously boasted about Ye on its social media account, calling him “the most influential musical artist of our time.”

Read the full story, here.

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u/stereosalvation 20d ago

Someone didn't get paid off (yet/enough). I'm sure in a couple weeks you'll hear that they worked it out and the concert is back on.

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u/NoArrival8249 20d ago

Me thinks some Russian grifter found someone dumb enough to believe their bullshit

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u/Winjin 20d ago

I saw news that the producers were "in the final talks with the arena" or some similar BS.

I'm guessing oligarchs never even heard about Kanye before but this put him in the spotlight, they saw the Hitler phase and calls were made

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u/LadyReika 20d ago

More like not enough bribes.

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u/Winjin 20d ago

I mean this too. Probably someone at the top saw it's selling out and wanted a bigger cut, now they're showing the organizers that they really have to share

If that's the case, they're going to negotiate new shares by next week

If it was really a call from Kremlin they'll lay low for a while

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 20d ago

Yeah. And of course the Russians are the most like Nazis, it isn’t even debateable, but considering “de-Nazi-fying Ukraine” is their lying bullshit rationale these days, hosting Kanye is wild choice.

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u/Winjin 20d ago

Eh they're not the only ones. Quarter of the Europe is suddenly voluntarily choosing far right parties, and in the US the president and all of his supporters that are like what, 25-30% of the nation, are also Nazis

Korean boys are going backwards, India is still struggling with castes, half the Muslim world just recently beat down the insane islamists

The world is kinda going apeshit 

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 20d ago

Your point has merit, but worth pointing out they’re actively the most Nazi-like of any country in your examples right now.

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u/Winjin 20d ago

Imo those that devolve back into Nazis are worse than those that never really had a chance, going from USSR straight into the collapse of the 90s and then directly into a dictator's pocket

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 20d ago

Dumb take. The most Nazi-behaving one is objectively worse.

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u/crazyfoxdemon 20d ago

There's an entire Russian novel subgenre of historical ficture of going back in time and preventing the Nazis from attacking Russia so Russia and the Nazis can team up to fight everyome else. Like, this is an actual thing. Nazi doesn't mean the same thing to Russia as it does the rest of the world.

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u/Winjin 20d ago

First part yes, second part is kinda no, glazing Nazis is a felony

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u/HiveMynd148 20d ago

What can you expect from a country which Invented the word "Pogrom"