KANYE WEST. After being silenced on Instagram or deprogrammed from the Grammy Awards, rapper Kanye West will not perform at the Coachella festival.
Kanye West, persona non grata. For several weeks, the American rapper has once again found himself at the heart of several controversies. After attacking, online on social networks, comedian Pete Davidson, in a relationship with his ex-wife Kim Kardashianhe made headlines by uttering racist insults against South African host Trevor Noah, head of the American talk show The Daily Show. Attacks which earned him a ban on publication on Instagram for 24 hours. Kanye West’s page on this social network, which has nearly 16 million subscribers, is now empty.
The controversy continues with the deprogramming of the rapper’s performance at the Grammy Awards ceremony, which was held on April 3 in Las Vegas. The Recording Academy, which organizes the event every year, justified its decision by Kanye West’s “concerning online conduct”. And the misadventures of the one who is now called Ye do not stop there.
End of March, a petition was born on the Internet, to deprogram the 44-year-old artist from the American Coachella festival. Bottom line: Nearly 50,000 signers agreed that “Coachella (along with other brands that continue to work with him) should be ashamed and stop giving him the opportunity to speak ‘after he has’ harassed, threatened and harmed Kim (Kardashian), Pete (Davidson) and others for over a year.” And to the organizers of the event to prove them right: Kanye West no longer appears in the Coachella line-up. It will be replaced by The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia on Sundays April 17 and 24, 2022.