Swedish Home Mafia, together with The Weeknd, will carry out as a substitute of Kanye West, after the rapper pulled out of his headlining slot on the competition.
Sweedish Home Mafia was introduced as Kanye West‘substitute for the Coachella music competition in Indigo, California on Wednesday (Apr. 6), however the EDM stars aren’t the one ones taking up for Ye. Their “Moth To A Flame” collaborator, The Weeknd, will be a part of them to carry out within the Donda rapper’s headlining slot for each Sundays of the competition, April 17 and 24. Kanye had pulled out of the competition about two weeks earlier than he was set to take the stage to shut out the primary weekend.
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The Weeknd and Sweedish Home Mafia will be a part of beforehand introduced headliners Billie Eilish and Harry Kinds. Whereas the main points of why Kanye pulled out of the competition are nonetheless unknown, as report from TMZ identified. The report did be aware that allegedly he’d deliberate to incorporate a efficiency from Travis Scott, the “Sicko Mode” rapper’s first main efficiency at a competition for the reason that Astroworld Tragedy in November. In mild of the tragedy, Travis had been pulled from the lineup in December, based on Billboard.
Kanye had threatened to tug out of the competition months earlier than he did in an Instagram submit again in February. Ye had written the prolonged remark after a video went viral of Billie stopping a live performance to test on a fan who was in misery, which some interpreted as her throwing shade at Travis. Kanye demanded that the Happier Than Ever singer apologize to Travis. “NO ONE INTENDED THIS TO HAPPEN TRAV DIDN’T HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING WHEN HE WAS ON STAGE AND WAS VERY HURT BY WHAT HAPPENED AND YES TRAV WILL BE WITH ME AT COACHELLA BUT NOW I NEED BILLIE TO APOLOGIZE BEFORE I PERFORM,” he wrote. Billie responded by mentioning that she didn’t name out the rapper. ““actually by no means mentioned a factor about travis. was simply serving to a fan,” she wrote in a remark.
The cancelled Coachella look got here shortly after Kanye additionally skipped out on the 2022 Grammy Awards. Although he hadn’t been introduced as a performer but, Kanye reportedly had a efficiency scrapped due to his on-line habits. Regardless of the efficiency being nixed, he gained two Grammys on Sunday April 3 for Finest Melodic Rap Efficiency and Finest Rap Tune, which he wasn’t there to simply accept.