With most of his European tour canceled and in full controversy, Kanye West finally lands in Spain. The American rapper, currently known as Ye, will perform tonight at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, one of the few events that have managed to stay standing after the chain of controversies he has been involved in in recent years. In interviews and social networks, the artist has praised Nazism: he has praised Adolf Hitler on several occasions – he even titled a song Heil Hitler— and has designed t-shirts with swastikas. He also called the anti-racist Black Lives Matter movement a “scam.” These controversies have cost him concerts in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Switzerland and Italy in recent months.
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