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Swiss football club FC Basel has decided not to host a Kanye West concert at its St. Jakob-Park stadium, making it the latest European venue to turn the controversial rapper away. The concert was seemingly not yet scheduled, but a spokesperson for FC Basel (FCB) said they had reviewed the request and opted not to move forward with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cFCB received an enquiry [to host West] and considered it. However, after thorough review, we have decided not to proceed with the project, as we cannot, in accordance with our values, provide a platform for the artist in question within this context,\u201d a club spokesperson said in a statement<\/a> to Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n According to Swiss media, the concert would have taken place in June. The move makes Switzerland the latest in a growing list of European countries to have cancelled or prevented the 48-year-old musician from traveling there in the first place.<\/p>\n In January, West apologized (yet again) for his rampant antisemitic behavior in recent years, which he attributed to untreated bipolar disorder and a car accident that took place over 20 years ago. But an apology has not been enough to convince numerous venues across Europe (and Australia<\/a>) to welcome him.<\/p>\n However, he played two sold-out shows at Los Angeles\u2019 SoFi Stadium earlier this month as part of his proposed comeback tour, which accompanies his latest album<\/a>, Bully<\/em>. The album has had underwhelming sales for an artist of his former clout, especially up against K-pop princes BTS and their comeback album, ARIRANG<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\nOn Friday, a Polish stadium<\/a> said it was cancelling a scheduled West concert due to \u201cformal and legal reasons.\u201d West himself, who now goes by Ye, said a few days earlier that he had postponed a show in France<\/a>\u2014as rumors swirled that the country was going to cancel on him, anyway. Prior to that, Britain prevented Ye from traveling there to headline Wireless Festival<\/a>, which was ultimately cancelled.<\/h4>\n