{"id":453412,"date":"2026-05-31T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:14:11","slug":"italian-authorities-cancel-ye-travis-scott-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453412\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Authorities Cancel Ye &#038; Travis Scott Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, Kanye West was <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2495034\/kanye-west-denied-entry-to-uk-wireless-festival-canceled\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">denied entry to the UK<\/a> due to his history of <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2202297\/jack-antonoff-responds-to-kanyes-anti-semitic-posts-dont-fuck-with-us\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">antisemitism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2207332\/kanye-west-suspended-from-twitter-for-posting-swastika\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nazism<\/a>, causing the cancellation of London&#8217;s Wireless Festival. The rapper then canceled his shows in <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2495799\/kanye-west-may-be-banned-from-france-next\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2496200\/another-european-kanye-west-concert-canceled\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Poland<\/a> after authorities expressed possible bans from their countries as well. Now, Italy has canceled his performance, as well as Travis Scott&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/italy-bans-kanye-west-travis-scott-concerts-over-security-concerns-2026-05-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>, authorities have canceled the concerts slated for July in the northern city of \u200bReggio Emilia due to concerns over public order and security, including the possibility of protests. Scott \u2014 whose Astroworld Festival in Houston <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2166670\/travis-scott-astroworld\/columns\/sounding-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">killed 10 people<\/a> in 2021 \u2014 was supposed to perform at the Pulse Of Gaia Festival on July 17 at the RCF Arena, with Ye scheduled for the next day. <\/p>\n<p>The local prefect, Salvatore Angieri, said the decision to ban the two acts was taken after the issue was raised by consumer group CODACONS and the Jewish community \u200bin Modena and Reggio Emilia. The close timing of the shows and the high influx\u00a0of spectators also contributed to the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Netherlands says Ye&#8217;s concert there will go forward, with the migration minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/kanye-west-perform-netherlands-despite-bans-elsewhere-2026-05-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">stating<\/a> that there are no legal grounds to deny him entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April, Kanye West was denied entry to the UK due to his history of antisemitism and Nazism,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-453412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}