Why Kanye West will never really be cancelled
This Is Why
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Kanye West is one of the 21st Century’s most talented musicians, but his controversial remarks are just as famous as his music – and his antisemitic comments have now got him banned from the UK.
Wireless festival, which he was due to headline in London this summer, has been cancelled as a result.
Since he burst onto the music scene in the early 2000s, Ye, as he is now known, has been breaking the mould – both as an artist and with his controversial opinions.
This includes releasing a song called Heil Hitler, selling swastika T-shirts, saying slavery was a choice and supporting Diddy during his sex trafficking trial.
Gareth Barlow speaks to music and culture journalist Nicolas Tyrell-Scott about why Ye remains popular, how much the music industry is responsible and will anything now change?
Ye denies allegations of sexual assault.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:13.0 | Kangay West is barred from entering the UK after anti-submitting comments, but despite his tarnish reputation, for many he will always be famous. And this is why. |
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| 1:23.5 | Hello, Gareth Barlow here with you. |
| 1:27.0 | And music has never been the same since Kanye West, now known as Yeh, |
| 1:27.9 | burst onto the scene in 2004 and reshaped hip-hop. It was no surprise then that one of the UK's biggest |
| 1:33.8 | festivals, Wireless, would book Ye to headline for three days this summer, except for his history |
| 1:40.0 | of anti-Semitism. There were the tweets calling for DeathConnes 3 on Jewish people, a professed |
| 1:45.8 | love for Hitler and the buying of AdSpace during the 2025 Super Bowl to sell t-shirts featuring |
| 1:51.2 | the swastika. Yeas apologized, attributing his behavior to an undiagnosed brain injury and a mental |
| 1:57.8 | health crisis. It's not the first time he shocked his fans, the KKK outfit, |
| 2:03.5 | falsely claiming that the enslavement of black people was a choice and his meeting with Donald |
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