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Music festival axed amid uproar over Kanye West's Hitler song
The Guardian
|July 12, 2025
A Slovakian festival that was due to feature Kanye West has been called off after the uproar over the US rapper's release of a song glorifying Adolf Hitler.
Before the 20 July gig was cancelled, Bratislava's Rubicon hip-hop festival was set to be West's only confirmed live performance in Europe this year.
Though he has won 24 Grammy awards over the course of his career, the erratic rapper has become notorious for his increasingly antisemitic and hate-filled rants.
This story is from the July 12, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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