Kanye West's Prague concert is cancelled as another European venue refuses to host him

Kanye West's concert scheduled for July 25 in Prague has been cancelled after the venue set to host the rapper pulled out of the arrangement, marking the latest in a string of live performance cancellations that have followed the American artist across Europe since he began making antisemitic statements publicly in October 2022.

The concert was organised by Slovak producer Hugo Varga and was planned to take place at a horse-racing track in the Czech capital. Venue owner Zuzana Rambová confirmed that the arena had terminated the organiser's contract, though she declined to state specific reasons for the decision. Rambová separately told PrahaIN.cz, the Czech news outlet that first reported the cancellation, that she believed West should be free to perform despite the antisemitic remarks he had made in the past.

Varga was previously associated with a Slovakia rap festival in the summer of 2025 at which West was scheduled to perform. That event collapsed following local protests and concerns about the adequacy of preparations. West withdrew from the lineup before the festival was ultimately cancelled entirely. At the time, Varga attributed the festival's failure to financial regulatory issues and publicly argued that West should not be blocked from performing because of past controversies.

The Prague cancellation is the most recent in a series of European concert collapses. In April 2026, West's planned appearance at the UK's Wireless Festival in July was scrapped after British authorities denied him a visa. Days later, a June concert in Marseille was postponed following opposition from French politicians including Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan. Separate concerts planned for Poland, Italy and other European countries have also been cancelled.

West performed at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on May 30, 2026, before a crowd of 118,000 people as part of his YE Live in Istanbul tour, his largest single-night audience of the European leg. A Dutch court had earlier rejected attempts to block his Netherlands shows.

West made his first explicitly antisemitic statements on social media in October 2022, triggering a wave of commercial and institutional cancellations that included the termination of his Adidas partnership, the end of his Gap collaboration and the severing of relationships with Balenciaga, CAA and multiple other major brands. In May 2025, he issued a public apology through a full-page Wall Street Journal advertisement, stating that his antisemitic remarks were connected to untreated bipolar disorder and that he had abandoned anti-Jewish ideals.

The apology has not prevented the pattern of European venue cancellations from continuing. West's net worth is estimated at approximately $400 million by Forbes, reduced significantly from a peak of $6.6 billion in 2021 when his Adidas partnership was at full commercial velocity.