Say good-bye to Kanye West.
The Weeknd and Swedish Space Mafia are set to exchange West (who has legally modified his identify to Ye) because the Sunday evening headliners of the 2022 Coachella Valley Song and Arts Pageant. West dropped out previous this week, days prior to the go back of the extremely expected pageant.
On Wednesday, the organizers of this yr’s match, which is scheduled for the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, introduced the last-minute exchange at the pageant’s Instagram web page.
The Yeezy type icon was once scheduled to accomplish at the preferred California pageant however sponsored out on Monday. He was once additionally a no-show at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
The announcement comes as a Alternate.org petition had known as for the celebrity rapper’s removing from the pageant lineup because of his public conduct towards ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson.
“We’ve got watched Kanye harass, manipulate, and harm Kim, Pete, and others for over a yr now,” the petition mentioned. “Nobody turns out to wish to get up to him, and those that do, he places below hearth as neatly.”
The petition had garnered greater than 49,000 signatures.
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No rationalization was once formally given about why West dropped out.
Then again, he prior to now threatened, in a since-deleted Instagram publish on Feb. 10, to cancel his Coachella set if fellow headliner Billie Eilish didn’t factor an apology to rapper Travis Scott.
West had mentioned Eilish insulted Scott — whom West deliberate to carry out at Coachella — when she paused a live performance in February to assist a fan get her inhaler.
In clips from Eilish’s live performance, the Grammy winner says, “I watch for folks to be OK till I stay going. Some information retailers interpreted the statement as a jab at Scott, who was once appearing on the Astroworld Pageant in Houston final November as a stampede erupted within the crowd. Ten folks had been killed and rankings had been injured within the overwhelm.
“Actually by no means mentioned a factor about Travis,” she wrote in a remark underneath West’s publish in keeping with the accusations. “Used to be simply serving to a fan.”
Regardless of being banned from appearing on the Grammys on Sunday, West was once nominated for 5 awards, together with album of the yr for “Donda.” He received two non-televised rap classes, however didn’t attend any of the occasions.