{"id":299933,"date":"2026-06-08T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:24:00","slug":"sen-rick-scott-demands-action-against-rapper-ye-ahead-of-tampa-concert-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299933\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rick Scott demands action against rapper, Ye ahead of Tampa concert | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, Fla. (WINK) &#8211; Sen. Rick Scott demanded action against rapper Ye ahead of his concert in Tampa on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Scott said on X that Ye&#8217;s &#8220;antisemitic remarks are vile &amp; a slap in the face to Florida&#8217;s Jewish community. He followed by saying it&#8217;s &#8220;EXTREMELY troubling that TAXPAYER dollars are being used to fund his upcoming concert in Tampa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning rapper, who formerly went by Kanye West, has faced multiple controversies throughout his career, as well as accusations of antisemitism and racism.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kanyewest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@kanyewest<\/a>\u2019s<br \/>\nantisemitic remarks are vile &amp; a slap in the face to Florida\u2019s<br \/>\nJewish community.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s EXTREMELY troubling that TAXPAYER dollars are being used to<br \/>\nfund his upcoming concert in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m demanding ACTION. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/15vtQQjhVp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/15vtQQjhVp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenRickScott\/status\/2062650986745770206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\nJune 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to the Tampa Sports Authority Board of Directors, Scott said that Ye&#8217;s anti-Semitic attacks are an affront ot the values of the Hillsborough County community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was recently barred from performing in the United Kingdom due to offensive antisemitic remarks. I urge you to carefully review this decision, given the fact that taxpayer dollars are helping the show go on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Rick Scott Letter\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Scott offered assistance to the Tampa Sports Authority Board of Directors with any needs related to Ye&#8217;s concert at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the Tampa Sports Authority Board of Directors has not publicly responded to Scott&#8217;s letter.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa, Fla. (WINK) &#8211; Sen. Rick Scott demanded action against rapper Ye ahead of his concert in Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[63134,11708,3856,135,137,136,121361],"class_list":["post-299933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-kanye-west","tag-raymond-james-stadium","tag-rick-scott","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-ye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299933","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=299933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}