Ye, previously known as Kanye West, he can no longer enter Australia after launching a song that praises Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Tony Burke, Minister of Internal Affairs of Australia, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Wednesday that the country had canceled its visa in early May, around the moment in which “Heil Hitler” was released.
Ye has visited the country frequently since he married Bianca Censori, who is from Melbourne.
“If someone argued that anti -Semitism was rational, it wouldn't let them come here,” Burke said. “[Ye] He has come to Australia for a long time … and has made many offensive comments. “
The song proved to be the final attack for Ye. First shared in a publication on social networks in X, “Heil Hitler”, as has been widely denounced by his racial epithets and anti -Semitism. It was also subsequently banned on most transmission platforms.
In the song, Ye tested an infamous speech that Hitler in 1935 in Krupp Factory, two years after he was appointed chancellor of the Nazi party.
His music video, released on May 8, shows a group of people dressed in animal skins that recite the lyrics of the song.
Ye's behavior has been controversial for a long time, but his anti -Semitism in recent years has put the former colleagues in an uncomfortable position.
John Legend, whose 2013 effort “Love in the Future” was produced by Ye, had a clear response in a recent interview.
“It never affects me personally, but only the whole story is sad. As, seeing this guy praise Hitler, seeing this guy to be this hate force and only vitriolo and unpleasant,” Legend said during an appearance in the New York Hot 97 radio program. “All the things he has done to make the world more beautiful and interesting, so that this is now, it's sad. It's sad.”
He clarified that during his time in the seal of good music of Ye between 2004 and 2016, he never saw evidence that the rapper was “obsessed with Hitler.”
The legend added that despite Ye's recent behavior, he does not regret its past collaborations: “I am very happy to have done what we did together.”
