Kanye West banned from performing at the 2022 Grammys

On March 18, Kanye’s crew received a call informing him that he was “unfortunately” removed from the Grammy’s performance list due to “related to online behavior”.

A representative of Kanye West talk to Variety: “This has been confirmed”. Sources add that Kanye’s team is not surprised by the decision, despite the male rapper receiving five nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards.

Kanye West was not on the list of performers first announced on March 15, but he is an artist that was scheduled to perform. The Recording Academy and CBS channel – the organizer of the 2022 Grammy – did not comment on the ban on Kanye West singing at this year’s awards ceremony.

Rapper Kanye West. Photo: AP.

There are many reasons for this decision of the Grammy, most of which are related to the male singer’s negative statements on social networks in recent months.

In particular, ex-husband Kim attacked Trevor Noah – the host of the 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony – on Instagram after the 38-year-old MC commented that he was too aggressive and was harassing his ex-wife in the past. The Daily Show.

Grammy has chosen a solution to ban Kanye waves on live TV shows to avoid the risk that the male singer can use the stage to continue harassing Pete Davidson, her new boyfriend. Kim Kardashian, get custody of the children. Thousands of people signed a petition in support of this decision of the Grammy. However, there are also some objections.

After reading the announcement, Victor Willis – the singer of the Village People – said on his personal Facebook that Kanye’s ban on singing was Trevor Noah’s fault and that the Grammys should change the presenter this year because he put himself in. a mess.

Victor explained that while Kanye West’s behavior was worrisome, the Grammy ban wasn’t cool either. Trevor Noah already knew he’d be hosting the Grammys, where Kanye has received multiple nominations, before commenting on the Kims’ relationship on the show. Therefore, it was Trevor who put the organizers in a dilemma when talking about Kanye right now.

Before that, Kanye posted photos and captions mocking Trevor Noah – the host The Daily Show. The 44-year-old rapper replaced some of the lyrics in the song Kumbaya with the word disparaging black people on Instagram.

This post has now been deleted by Instagram’s management team. Kanye West is also blocked from posting, commenting and sending messages on Instagram for 24 hours.

According to Ngoisao.net