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Kanye West has cancelled the remaining 21 dates of his North American Saint Pablo Tour, a rep announced on Tuesday.
“The remaining dates on the SAINT PABLO TOUR have been canceled,” read a statement from Live Nation. “Tickets will be fully refunded at point of purchase.”
The rapper has not commented on the cancellation, but bizarrely posted about 100 photos to Instagram on Monday that appear to be from a retro fashion spread.
The news that the concerts, due to run until New Year’s Eve, will not go ahead have shocked and disappointed fans, although anyone paying close attention to Kanye’s behavior in recent weeks might have seen this coming.
Last week Kanye was booed during a concert in San Jose, California after he went on a pro-Trump rant, in which he revealed he did not vote in the US election but “would have voted for Trump”. This upset many, including Kanye’s long-time friend rapper Talib Kweli, who tweeted: “… lifting Trump up kills us. Come home.”
Then on Saturday night he walked off stage after performing just two songs and ranting about Hillary Clinton, Google, Facebook, Beyonce and Jay Z, and the following night he cancelled the show altogether.
It’s been a difficult few months for Kanye after wife Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris, and TMZ reports he’s also worn out from various commitments.
“He’s just exhausted,” a source ‘close to Kanye’ told the site. “He’s been working around the clock on fashion design, both his own line and the Adidas line.”
“All the time spent away from his family has been a stress on him as well. They are most important to him.”
It’s disappointing for those that bought tickets, but it sounds like Kanye’s not giving fans his best right now. And if Kanye has taught us anything, it’s that what doesn’t kill us, can only make us Stronger. Get some sleep, Yeezy.
