American rapper Kanye West has announced the postponement of an upcoming concert in Marseille, France 'until further notice'.
It comes a week after this summer's Wireless Festival - which West had been scheduled to headline - was cancelled following the UK government's decision to block him from entering the country.
According to French media, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez was looking to ban the 11 June gig. An unnamed source close to Nunez suggested that the minister was 'highly determined' to prevent the event.
For the last several years, West has caused outrage for a string of antisemitic, racist and pro-Nazi comments.
'After much thought and consideration, it is my sole decision to postpone my show in Marseille, France until further notice,' West, now known as Ye, stated early Wednesday in a post on X.
In a follow-up statement, the rapper declared: 'I know it takes time to understand the sincerity of my commitment to make amends. I take full responsibility for what's mine but I don't want to put my fans in the middle of it. My fans are everything to me. Looking forward to the next shows.'
West was slated to play at the Wireless Festival in London and the Marseille concert as part of a European tour this summer. As of Wednesday, his official website still listed performances in several other European countries throughout May, June, and July, including Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
Furthermore, West was scheduled to perform in New Delhi, India, in late May. Reports indicated that Bart van den Brink, the Dutch asylum and migration minister, stated there were no plans to bar the rapper from performing there.
In France, AFP reported that Nunez was exploring 'all possibilities' to prohibit West from performing but did not offer further details.
On the day Wireless was cancelled, the Home Office stated that the rapper had applied to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA).
Visitors to the UK need an ETA if they do not require a visa for short stays of up to six months and do not already have UK immigration status. The decision to refuse permission was attributed to the belief that West's presence would not be conducive to the public good.
In 2022, he provocatively suggested going 'death con 3 On Jewish people'. Later that year, he appeared on a podcast with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and remarked, 'I see good things about Hitler.'
In May 2025, West released a contentious song titled Heil Hitler and controversially sold T-shirts featuring swastikas.
West is attempting to return to the mainstream public view after apologizing for his actions in a lengthy statement published in the Wall Street Journal in January, where he claimed, 'I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,' and specified that his bipolar disorder had caused him to 'lose touch with reality.'
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