Say goodbye to Kanye West.
The Weeknd and Swedish Home Mafia are set to switch West (who has legally modified his title to Ye) because the Sunday evening headliners of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition. West dropped out earlier this week, days earlier than the return of the extremely anticipated competition.
On Wednesday, the organizers of this 12 months’s occasion, which is scheduled for the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, introduced the last-minute change on the competition’s Instagram web page.
The Yeezy trend icon was scheduled to carry out on the in style California competition however backed out on Monday. He was additionally a no-show at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
The announcement comes as a Change.org petition had referred to as for the celebrity rapper’s removing from the competition lineup as a result of his public habits towards ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson.
“We have now watched Kanye harass, manipulate, and harm Kim, Pete, and others for over a 12 months now,” the petition mentioned. “Nobody appears to wish to stand as much as him, and those that do, he places underneath fireplace as effectively.”
The petition had garnered greater than 49,000 signatures.
No rationalization was formally given about why West dropped out.
Nevertheless, he beforehand threatened, in a since-deleted Instagram publish on Feb. 10, to cancel his Coachella set if fellow headliner Billie Eilish didn't concern 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 look forward to individuals to be OK till I maintain going. Some information shops interpreted the comment as a jab at Scott, who was performing on the Astroworld Competition in Houston final November as a stampede erupted within the crowd. Ten individuals had been killed and scores had been injured within the crush.
“Actually by no means mentioned a factor about Travis,” she wrote in a remark beneath West’s publish in response to the accusations. “Was simply serving to a fan.”
Regardless of being banned from performing on the Grammys on Sunday, West was nominated for 5 awards, together with album of the 12 months for “Donda.” He received two non-televised rap classes, however didn't attend any of the occasions.
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