They say pride comes before a fall. Well, Kanye West had so much pride and has fallen so far. Just a few years ago, he was one of the most respected working musical artists. Now? Well, it’s difficult to come back from posting “I LOVE HITLER on social media, selling a swastika t-shirt, then releasing a song called “Heil Hitler” containing samples of Hitler’s speeches.
We get it, you like Hitler! Anyhows, while this has bolstered his popularity in the razor-thin demographic of Neo-Nazi hip-hop fans who love outspoken African-American men, it’s meant that Kanye’s career as a mainstream artist is effectively over.
Australia stepped in first, canceling Kanye’s entry visa. This means his frequent visits to Australia are over, which is awkward given that his wife, Bianca Censori, is Australian. Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke didn’t mince words: “officials still looked at the law and said you’re going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism, we don’t need that in Australia. We have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry.”
According to rumours Ye is "pretty much banned from performing in Europe" as no major venues are willing to host him.
— ATP (@ATP_RAP) July 9, 2025
Both Wembley and London stadium rejected his 7m asking price to perform and said there is "no chance" of them ever booking him. pic.twitter.com/affexOmye8
Now Europe appears to be following suit. As per a report by Yahoo! News Kanye is “pretty much banned” from performing in Europe as the stadium venues he demands won’t accept his booking. The story says that both Wembley Stadium and the “London stadium” (which doesn’t exist, possibly they mean the O2 Arena) say there’s “no chance” of him playing there.
As a source told The Daily Mail: “He’s getting his team to phone around desperately asking for gigs, and he is said to be asking for $7 million a night. No one will touch him with a barge pole.”
Turns out they don’t want Nazis in Europe
Other reports indicate that he’s also effectively banned playing in Germany (which has strict laws against praising Hitler or promoting Nazi iconography), Slovakia, and Spain. Even leaving aside the fact that Kanye may well say or do something on stage that’d see him arrested, any European venue that hosts him would become the center of a huge controversy and a target for protests, none of which they want.
This is, of course, the FO part of FAFO. Kanye was free to say he loved Hitler and Nazism as much as he wanted, with free speech laws protecting his release of “Heil Hitler”. But just because you have the freedom to do something doesn’t mean you have the freedom to avoid the consequences. And boy, are those consequences arriving fast.
The silver lining is that West will almost certainly be able to keep doing large shows across the United States, where people have an increasingly positive outlook on the acts, deeds, and philosophy of racist genocidal monster Adolf Hitler. So he can at least count on a lot of red baseball caps filling out the crowd!
