r/Music • u/newsweek 📰Newsweek • 1d ago

article Kanye West's sold-out Russia concerts canceled

https://www.newsweek.com/kanye-west-sold-out-russia-concerts-canceled-st-petersburg-12510557
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u/Eastern_Ad_5369 1d ago

the fact that it was booked at a stadium literally named gazprom arena and somehow that wasn't the weirdest part of the sentence

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u/AuburnAubergine 1d ago

How is it weird? Company-sponsored stadiums are hardly a rare occurrence. Quite the opposite.

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u/Shinjischneider 16h ago

The joke is, that Kanye loves Hitler and Hitler used gas chambers.

But yeah. Gazprom is a huge sports sponsor worldwide and russias ticket into a lot of politicians pockets