Kanye West is not welcome in Poland. Image: keystone
April 17, 2026, 8:13 p.mApril 17, 2026, 8:13 p.m
The US rapper Kanye West has received another rejection in Europe. The concert planned for June 19th in Chorzow, Silesia, will not take place for “formal and legal reasons,” according to a statement from the director on the website of the stadium there. The British government had previously banned the rapper from entering the country; He canceled a concert in France himself after an impending ban.
Poland’s Culture Minister Marta Cienkowska had already described the planned appearance in Chorzow as “unacceptable”. It’s about an artist who makes public anti-Semitic statements and makes money by selling T-shirts with swastikas, she wrote on
Kanye Omari West is one of the most influential and at the same time most polarizing artists in the music industry. The 48-year-old rapper repeatedly attracted attention with racist and anti-Semitic statements. In 2025 he released a song called “Heil Hitler”. At the beginning of the year he finally apologized in the form of a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal. “I am neither a Nazi nor an anti-Semite,” wrote Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband, attributing his previous statements to bipolar disorder. (sda/dpa)