Pageant organizers have tapped Child Cudi as Ye's substitute on July 22.
Kanye West will now not be acting at Rolling Loud Miami 2022.
The competition’s organizers took to social media on Sunday (July 17) to announce that the 45-year-old rapper and style mogul, who now goes by Ye, won't be headlining the occasion’s opening evening on July 22.
“Attributable to circumstances exterior of our management, Ye will now not be acting at Rolling Loud Miami 2022,” Rolling Loud tweeted, including that Child Cudi has been tapped as Ye’s substitute.
Rolling Loud co-founders Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler additional elaborated on the cancellation within the following assertion: “We had been trying ahead to Ye headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022. We spent months working with him and his crew on the efficiency. Sadly, Ye has determined that he'll now not be performing. That is the primary time a headliner has ever pulled off our present and although we don’t take it evenly, we want him the most effective. We look ahead to welcoming Child Cudi as a headliner in Miami and we will’t wait to see what he has in retailer.”
Ye beforehand carried out at Rolling Loud California 2021 as a particular visitor, marking his first competition look since earlier than the coronavirus pandemic. The celebrity rapper was rumored to seem as a particular visitor eventually 12 months’s Rolling Loud Miami, however he in the end determined to not hit the stage following the delay of his tenth studio album, Donda.
Rolling Loud Miami, set for for July 22-24 at Arduous Rock Stadium, is scheduled to characteristic headlining performances by Future (July 23) and Kendrick Lamar (July 24). Different artists on the invoice embody Playboi Carti, Lil Durk, Lil Uzi Vert, DaBaby, Gucci Mane, Lil Child, Kodak Black, and others.
This isn’t the primary competition efficiency Ye has known as off in 2022; he additionally pulled out of his headlining slot at Coachella in April. The hip-hop icon was changed by The Weeknd and Swedish Home Mafia.
Ye made his long-awaited return to the stage earlier this month in Los Angeles with a cameo tucked right into a headlining present by The Sport, who was selling his new album, Drillmatic: Coronary heart vs. Thoughts. It marked Ye’s first onstage efficiency in virtually 5 months and the stay debut of “Eazy,” a fiery monitor he and The Sport dropped in January.
See Rolling Loud Miami’s announcement beneath on Twitter.
Attributable to circumstances exterior of our management, Ye will now not be acting at Rolling Loud Miami 2022. Please welcome @KiDCuDi! pic.twitter.com/HpPfKyf2LU
— Rolling Loud (@RollingLoud) July 17, 2022
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.