Kanye: Gone 'til November?

If you've lived in Beijing long enough, or at least for the past year, you've come to find the uncertainty of major international acts performing in the capital endearing. Well, no. That's not true. It's still annoying as hell. Take Celine Dion, for example, whose show cancellation due to a throat infection earlier this year sunk who-knows-how-many a heart among devoted Beijing fans.

And now, the latest to fall victim to this tiresome trend is rapper/producer Kanye West. Despite a firm and resolute confirmation from organizers China West weeks prior to the show that all the kinks for Kanye to come to China had been worked out, we are now being told that both his Beijing and Shanghai performances in September will be postponed, most likely until November but possibly until December.

An upside to the postponement, organizers hope, will be the chance to find a better venue (I mean, Fengtai? C'mon now). And apparently, Kanye is adjusting dates on the remainder of his Glow in the Dark world tour, including already scheduled shows in Mexico and Singapore, specifically to accommodate Beijing.

Sweet though it may be of him to make sure China is on his “go to” list, it remains to be seen if it actually happens. We hold onto our hopes, and we certainly have our doubts, but keep your eyes on thebeijinger.com for the facts as they come in.

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