Even if you say you're very sorry for adapting Nazi imagery and making a song called "Heil Hitler," certain European countries might not be eager to invite you in. That's the lesson that Kenye West is learning right now. West has a European stadium tour coming up, and he was initially announced as the headliner for all three nights of London's Wireless Festival. But the UK government denied entry to West, and the festival was canceled. After French authorities voiced similar intentions, West announced that he would postpone a planned Marseilles show "until further notice." Today, a stadium in Warsaw scrapped plans for another Kanye West concert.
West was scheduled to play Warsaw's Slaski Stadium on June 19, but Reuters reports that it's not going to happen. In a Facebook statement, stadium director Adam Strzyzewski said that the concert "will not take place due to formal and legal reasons." This was after Polish officials said that they didn't want the show to go forward. Yesterday, Polish Culture Minister Marta Cienkowska said, "In a country scarred by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment."
It's easy enough to see why the formerly Nazi-occupied Poland, the site of some of the worst horrors of the Holocaust, might not have any patience for Kanye West's antics. At the moment, he's got shows coming up in India, Turky, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
