Kanye West announces his first UK shows in 11 years as the rapper is set to headline THREE nights at Wireless Festival – two months after revealing devastating health battle and apologising for antisemitic rants

Kanye West has announced that he will return to the UK stage for the first time in 11 years, with the rapper headlining all three nights at Wireless Festival.

The controversial music star, 48, will appear on stage at London’s Finsbury Park in July in a bid to salvage his damaged reputation after a series of nasty outbursts over the years, including antisemitic comments.

Kanye detailed how his bipolar disorder caused him to lose ‘touch with reality’ in a one-page ad published in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year.

Considering Kanye’s recent struggles, there are already doubts about whether the star will ever hit the stage due to his inconsistent performance history.

In July, angry fans in China demanded refunds after Kanye returned 40 minutes late to his show in Shanghai; The star committed a similar behavior when he was an hour late for a show in South Korea in 2024.

His most famous stage incident came in 2016, when he started a California show 90 minutes late and stormed off stage after just three songs.

Last year’s Wireless saw Drake headline but the event descended into chaos as thousands of fans were forced to queue for hours for his final show before it was cut short.

In videos shared on TikTok, festivalgoers were standing shoulder to shoulder and begging security to let them in because they had tickets for that day.

But it wasn’t just general admission that faced huge queues, as VIP guests told the Daily Mail they had to wait ‘up to three hours’ before security concluded they would not be allowed in and headed home.

And it wasn’t just those who couldn’t attend the festival who were disappointed to see Drake’s headline slot cut by 50 minutes.

The rapper took the stage 10 minutes before the scheduled time and warned the crowd that he would perform until his microphone cut out, citing the strict 9:30 pm curfew.

Drake welcomed only three special guests Popcaan, Rema and Vybz Kartel into his set, compared to Saturday’s 12 guests and 90-minute run time.

This comes just days after Kanye finally released his much-delayed studio album Bully after eight delays.

Kanye’s ninth studio album was delayed by two months after the hitmaker revealed how he planned to finish it in Africa.

However, after being pushed back several times, it was postponed indefinitely and eventually cancelled; instead, Kanye went on to release Jesus Is King.

Kanye publicly apologized for his anti-Semitic outbursts, attributing them to the effects of a health battle he said was caused by a 2002 car accident.

In the published statement WSJ print edition, January 26, He claimed that during the accident, he suffered a brain injury that was ‘unnoticed’ at the time, and that ‘medical supervision’ triggered his bipolar disorder.

Kanye said the disease ‘cut him off from my true self’ and caused him to be drawn towards ‘the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika’.

The ad, paid for by Yeezy and written by West, was titled “For Those Who Hurt Me” and described how, after “hitting rock bottom” a few months ago, he decided to seek help with the encouragement of his wife, Bianca Censori.

It all started when he tweeted that he would be doing “death scam 3 against the Jewish people” in 2022 – which led to his immediate dismissal from his agency CAA, production company MRC, Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga.

The Yeezy designer, who wears swastikas and ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirts, has repeatedly spoken of his disdain for Jewish people and his admiration for Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler.

But in 2023, in a bizarre Instagram post, he claimed that watching Jonah Hill in the 2012 action comedy 21 Jump Street made him ‘like the Jewish people again’.

“No one should turn their anger against one or two people into hatred against millions of innocent people,” the hip-hop star wrote at the time.

The controversial music star will take to the stage in July in a bid to salvage his shattered reputation after a series of unpleasant outbursts (Photo taken at his last UK show in 2015)

Last year’s Wireless saw Drake headlining, but the event descended into chaos when thousands of fans were forced to queue for hours before his final show was cut short.

Kanye last year He said he decided to name the album Bully after learning that his ten-year-old son Saint had kicked a child because he was ‘weak’.

“My son was playing with a kid and then he kicked him,” Justin told Laboy. Download.

‘I asked my son, I said, ‘Why did you do this?’ “Because he’s skinny,” said West, who shares Saint with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

Kanye added with a laugh: ‘And I thought, ‘This guy is really a bully here.’

‘Aziz, you are the cause of bullying!’ LaBoy said.

‘Won’t Aziz do this? Kick everyone and push him aside,’ Kanye added.

LaBoy crack Saint inherited this trait from ‘young Ye’.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Kardashian’s representatives for comment.

A year ago, fans praised the star’s ‘genius’ new song Beauty and the Beast, which is now included on the album.

He released a teaser for the song, featuring cryptic lyrics such as ‘It’s been a long time coming’ and ‘I’m resting’; ‘every night and day trying to stay away to keep my audience awake.’

More followers added: ‘So beautiful she had to share it twice!!’ and my goat may literally be retired right now and his legacy may already be cemented as one of the most influential artists of all time, but he’s still putting out noisemakers just for the love of the game. Look at Ye, man.

This came after plaintiff Tony Saxon was seen entering Los Angeles Superior Court shortly after his wife, Bianca, arrived to testify.

It has since been revealed that Kanye and his team were taking a victory lap after a jury awarded $140,000 (a ‘tiny fraction’ of the $1.7 million he was seeking in this case) to a contractor who sued him.

His spokesman, Milo Yiannopoulos, told the Daily Mail that contractor Saxon received back ‘only a small fraction of the amount sought by his lawyers’ at $140,000 after demanding ‘about $1.7 million’ from the jury.

Yiannopoulos says jury rejected nearly all requests [Saxon’s] Allegations in the case that both Kanye and Bianca took the stand to testify.

Kanye decided to name the album Bully after learning that his ten-year-old son Saint had kicked a child because he was ‘weak’. West with sons Saint, Psalm and daughter Chicago in 2022

‘Although the jury found that Saxon qualified as an employee for certain purposes,’ he said, ‘it did not award any damages for lost wages, overtime, waiting time penalties, retaliation, punitive damages or other statutory penalties.

‘The only compensation awarded was $140,000 in respect of Saxon’s alleged injury while working on the property.’

West Coast Trial Lawyers barrister Neama Rahmani told the Daily Mail that her client Saxon was ‘relieved’ and ‘vindicated’ as the case drew to a close.

The verdict awarded to Kanye on Wednesday was split into $100,000 for Saxon’s past and present medical expenses and $40,000 for past pain and suffering. Rolling stone After reviewing the court decision, he submitted a report.

Saxon did not seek any compensation for future pain and suffering or punitive damages, according to legal documents reviewed by the outlet.

According to legal documents, the jury found that Kanye did not commit ‘malice, duress or fraud’ when he fired Saxon from the construction project.

‘It took a lot of deliberation to get to $140,000,’ one juror in the case told the press. ‘Some wanted to go higher. we thought [Saxon] He was injured but there were too many uncertain things to consider.’

Rahmani said of the verdict: ‘Admittedly, we won some claims, we lost some claims – it was a mixed verdict – I won’t say it was a clean outcome by any means, but the fact that the jury found our claims justified made it clear that: [Saxon] I was an employee, I found this [Saxon] ‘He was injured on the job… they compensated him for his medical expenses – that’s the law.’

Rahmani told the Daily Mail that the case involving Saxon was the first time the rapper ‘testified in court’, adding: ‘We have no problem filing a lawsuit against Ye; We are the first law firm to push a case against Ye through to trial.’