{"id":254652,"date":"2025-07-10T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254652\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:52:09","slug":"slovak-rap-festival-that-booked-kanye-west-called-off-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254652\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak rap festival that booked Kanye West called off \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A festival in Slovakia that was to feature the controversial musician Kanye West has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Rubicon festival in Bratislava came under fire for booking West \u2014\u00a0now officially known as Ye\u00a0\u2014 who has made a number of antisemitic\u00a0comments and who in May released a song called \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d that ends with a sample of a speech given by Adolf Hitler in 1935.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the festival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DL5Y1KINeea\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DL5Y1KINeea\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on social media<\/a> that the event \u2014 scheduled for next weekend \u2014 had been cancelled \u201cdue to external pressure and logistical challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojapeticia.sk\/campaign\/kanye-west-nepatri-do-bratislavy\/744f0001-4bf5-4eff-8b9b-828262d7d952\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mojapeticia.sk\/campaign\/kanye-west-nepatri-do-bratislavy\/744f0001-4bf5-4eff-8b9b-828262d7d952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition was launched<\/a> calling for West to be dropped from the event. It called the booking \u201can insult to historic memory, a glorification of wartime violence and debasement of all victims of the Nazi regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A festival in Slovakia that was to feature the controversial musician Kanye West has been cancelled. The Rubicon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,1805,269,18111,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-254652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kanye-west","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-society-and-culture","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}