West, now Ye, faces a setback to his June to July European comeback tour after the UK barred him from three London shows.
Kanye West attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 92nd annual Oscars at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on February 9, 2020. Photo by JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX / AFP
American rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, will hold a concert in Prague in July, Zuzana Rambova, director of the Chuchle Arena racecourse hosting the event, said on Thursday.
“He will perform on July 25,” Rambova told AFP without giving further details.
Czech media said the concert was organised by the HUGO Production company, which is owned by a 20-year-old Slovak, Hugo Varga, according to the Czech Company Register.
West, who has legally changed his name to the shorthand “Ye”, is planning a European comeback tour in June and July.
But his plans have stumbled on opposition, as the British government said it would not allow him into the country for three concerts at the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, London, in July.
The mayor of Marseille in France has said the rapper was “not welcome” for a June concert there, while Dutch Asylum and Migration Minister Bart van den Brink said he would not bar West from the Netherlands, where he is due to perform in early June.
US rapper and producer Kanye West gestures upon arriving at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on July 11, 2025. Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP
West was due to perform at the Rubicon rap festival in Bratislava in neighbouring Slovakia last year.
But the organisers cancelled the event after he had released a song called “Heil Hitler” on May 8, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Thousands of people petitioned against the Slovak gig of the 48-year-old rapper, who has won 24 Grammy Awards over the course of his career.
