Kanye West (or simply Ye) is allegedly going to conquer Russia - he plans to meet with Vladimir Putin, host the gospel show "Sunday Service" and business negotiations with influential businessmen. tells what is known about it at the moment.

What happened

On January 11, Billboard, citing Kanye West's confidant and strategic adviser Amir Sudan, announced the rapper's plans to visit Russia. According to him, the visit should take place in the spring or summer of 2022, as part of the trip, the musician is going to meet with President Vladimir Putin, hold the Sunday Service, and expand his business in the country. With the latter, Araz and Emin Agalarov, the leaders of the Crocus Group, are allegedly ready to help him - the source reports that the parties are negotiating, and Russia itself "will become a second home for West, since he will spend a lot of time here." In addition, with Emin, who is also a famous pop artist, he allegedly plans to release a joint release.

Shortly after the publication of the news, Rob Goldstone, a representative of Emin Agalarov, confirmed to Rolling Stone that the talks were in progress, but did not disclose details. At the same time, the rapper's PR director Pierre Rougier categorically denied Kanye's plans to visit Russia in the near future.

“This is completely fabricated. Fiction or wishful thinking by the Russian people,” Rougier said.

The musician himself has not yet commented on this information.

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What the Kremlin says about this

On December 12, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, answering a corresponding question from a correspondent, admitted that the Kremlin is not so familiar with West's work to give him an assessment.

“I do not think that the presidential administration is a counterpart of the performer - neither in terms of worship, nor in terms of organizing his trip. [Familiar with the activities of Kanye West] is not so deep as to give assessments, ”Peskov said.

What Kanye connects with Russia

So far - almost nothing. So, the rapper in his entire 25-year career has never even performed in the country. And in general, he visited Russia only once - in 2016, West visited Moscow to meet with designer Gosha Rubchinsky.

At the same time, the musician several times publicly identified himself with the President of Russia. So, in 2020, in one of the tweets, he called himself "baby Putin", and a year later he developed the idea on the air of the Drink Champs talk show.

“I realized that I am like Vladimir [Putin] when I realized that culture is oil. Culture is energy. And I am the king of culture in the last 20 years and will continue to be so for the next 2000 years, ”he said.

Kanye also once posted a photo of Putin taken during the president's judo class.

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What is the "Sunday Service" where Kanye wants to invite Putin

In recent years, West has gone deep into faith - this is directly reflected in his work. Sunday Services, Kanye's signature gospel show, was originally part of the rapper's Jesus Is King promotional campaign. As part of such events, which have been regularly held since 2019, the musician appears as a messiah, performing his own "religious" hits and covers, accompanied by a choir. Sometimes other top stars join the artist - from Katy Perry to Kid Cudi.

Previously, Kanye was accused in connection with holding such events of blasphemy and insulting the feelings of believers, as well as the inaccessibility of "Sunday services" for poor people. Read more about "services" here.

Who is Kanye West - as briefly as possible

Kanye West is an American rapper, born in 1977 in Atlanta. He is one of the Grammy record holders, is called perhaps the greatest hip-hip artist of the 21st century, is one of the best-selling musicians of our time.

At the same time, West's activities have long gone far beyond music itself - he, in particular, earns millions of dollars selling sneakers and clothes of his own production, and in 2020 he participated in the presidential election with a rather odious program inspired by one of the Marvel films.

A separate line in Kanye's biography is his bold antics - from supporting Donald Trump, because of which about half of American show business took up arms against the rapper, to plans to create a Christian TikTok.

For a long time, West was in a relationship with Kim Kardashian, with whom he has four common children, but last year the couple broke up - one of the reasons was called bipolar disorder, diagnosed by the performer in 2016. The musician is currently dating actress Julia Fox.

By the way, since October 2021, Kanye West is no longer Kanye West at all - he officially changed his name to Ye.

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