{"id":282201,"date":"2026-05-23T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282201\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:10:09","slug":"kanye-west-books-tampa-show-offers-free-tickets-to-mailing-list-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282201\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Books Tampa Show, Offers Free Tickets to Mailing List Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye West<\/a> is gearing up to perform in Tampa for the first time in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

The artist now known as Ye will be performing at Raymond James Stadium on June 26. Though details about the performance are being kept under wraps, it appears that pre-registrants for the ticket sale will be selected to receive free tickets, according to a message on tour.yeezy.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The concert will be West’s first appearance in the Tampa area since September 2016, when his Saint Pablo Tour stopped at what was then called Amalie Arena. <\/p>\n

The show comes after a turbulent stretch for Ye, whose past antisemitic statements and posts featuring Nazi imagery have come back to bite him \u2014\u00a0even after issuing a public apology<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In recent months, Ye has had performances across Europe canceled, and he\u2019s faced travel restrictions in countries like the United Kingdom<\/a> and Australia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One of his most recent cancellations was in New Delhi<\/a>, where he was supposed to perform at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. On May 15, the Indian government raised concerns about potential terrorism threats in and around Delhi. They didn\u2019t confirm whether the threats had to do with Ye performing or not. <\/p>\n

One show that Ye still has to look forward to is his upcoming stop in Tirana, Albania<\/a>, on July 11. In April, Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama confirmed the show was happening despite growing criticism tied to the rapper\u2019s past remarks. <\/p>\n

According to Albanian officials, the concert won\u2019t rely on public funding and will instead be financed through ticket sales. <\/p>\n

Critics within Albania voiced concern about the upcoming show, with Isa Myzraj, head of the Association of Journalists of Albania, saying: “It is incomprehensible why the Prime Minister decides to provoke [people] by promoting Kanye West.”<\/p>\n

Ye\u2019s recent apology for his actions has come under fire from many, including Seth Rogen, who called him out<\/a> for making a song called “Heil Hitler.”<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s funny is I\u2019ve said critical things about Jewish people; I think I got in more trouble than Kanye West did,” Rogen said to the audience at a recent Netflix Is A Joke event. “I got a lot of shit for what I said. I have no number one albums. I sometimes think what Adolf Hitler would think of the Kanye West song ‘Heil Hitler.’ I bet he\u2019d be torn.”<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart later took to the stage and echoed Rogern\u2019s sentiment. “But seriously, fuck that guy,” Stewart said. “He was like, ‘Hitler was misunderstood, we\u2019ve got to forgive Hitler.’ And I\u2019m like, I don\u2019t think I need to listen to anybody who thinks Hitler needs to be forgiven but is still mad at Pete Davidson.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West is gearing up to perform in Tampa for the first time in nearly a decade. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-282201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}