Kanye West‘s hopes of entering Australia went up in smoke on Wednesday as the American rapper’s Aussie visa was cancelled.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has revealed that the American rapper will be denied entry to the country after releasing a vile antisemitic song praising Adolf Hitler.
The track, titled Heil Hitler, was dropped by the singer on May 8 and was deemed to be ‘promoting Nazism’.
As a result, officials revised West’s ‘lower-level’ visa and came to the decision that it would be revoked.
‘He’s been coming to Australia for a long time. He’s got family here and he’s made a lot of offensive comments that my officials looked at again,’ Burke told the ABC.
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Kanye West’s hopes of entering Australia went up in smoke on Wednesday as the American rapper’s Aussie visa was cancelled. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has revealed that the American rapper will be denied entry to the country after releasing a vile antisemitic song praising Adolf Hitler. West is pictured
‘Once he released the Heil Hitler song, he no longer has a valid visa in Australia.
‘It wasn’t a visa for the purpose of concerts. It was a lower-level and the officials still looked at the law and said, you’re going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism, we don’t need that in Australia.’
West has flown to Australia in the past, and was most recently believed to be planning a trip Down Under to visit the family of his Australian wife, Bianca Censori.
In May, West took aim at Kim Kardashian, referenced his sex life with wife Censori, and continued to profess his love for Adolf Hitler as he released the music video for his vile new song, Heil Hitler (Hooligan Version).
The rapper, 47, took to X (formerly Twitter) to share the clip, which showed a group of shirtless black males draped in animal skins professing their love for Hitler.
His chosen day to release the song was also of significance because it fell on VE Day – the 80-year anniversary of when fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end.
In the song, Kanye rapped that he had ‘so much anger’ inside of him adding: ‘these people took my kids from me and they froze my bank account.’
The Chicago native has publicly clashed with ex-wife Kim, 44, about the co-parenting of their 11-year-old daughter, North and their three younger kids – daughter Chicago, seven; and sons Saint, nine, and Psalm, five – claiming he has not been allowed to see them.
West has flown to Australia in the past, and was most recently believed to be planning a trip Down Under to visit the family of his Australian wife, Bianca Censori (right)
He claimed that be became a Nazi because of his custody battle, singing: ‘With all of my money and fame I still don’t get to see my children / N*****s see my Twitter but they don’t see how I be feeling / So I became a Nazi, yeah b***h, I’m the villain.’
The line, ‘N****r, heil Hitler’ is repeated 15 times in the song.
Kanye also referenced his wild antics with new wife Bianca – who he has been accused of ‘controlling’ by parading her around in near-naked ensembles.
In the song he claimed to be a ‘cuck’.
Cuckholding is widely used to describe the fetish where people (usually men) are turned on by their partners having affairs.
He sang: ‘Guess I am a cuck, I love when people f**k on my b***h’, later adding: ‘She reaching down in my pants. She got the world in her hands.’
Kanye also addressed his wild social media exchanges, which has seen him temporarily banned from several sites, including X.
He sang: ‘They don’t understand the things I say on Twitter’.
On February 11, the shop on Kanye’s Yeezy Website – which he advertised with an expensive ad during the Super Bowl – was taken offline by Shopify after he was selling a shirt with a swastika
The song ended with Kanye sampling one of Hitler’s speech in 1935, which translates to: ‘Whether you think my work is right, whether you believe that I have been diligent.
‘That I have worked, that I have stood up for you during these years, that I have used my time decently in the service of my people.
‘You cast your vote now, if yes, then stand up for me as I stood up for you.’
After posting his new music video, Kanye appeared on a livestream with internet personalities Sneako and Adin Ross as he continued to defend his love of Hitler.
Adin asked: ‘Do you think that Hitler would’ve liked you for being Black?’ to which Kanye insisted he would.
He explained: ‘I would’ve been one of the scientists that America ended up cleaning up and bringing in and having serve America after the fact – I’m a scientist so…’
Kanye has remained in the crosshairs of controversy for much of the year amid a torrent of posts propagating antisemitism.
On February 11, the shop on Kanye’s Yeezy Website – which he advertised with an expensive ad during the Super Bowl – was taken offline by Shopify after he was selling a white shirt with a black swastika in the center.
He has also frequently made posts praising Adolf Hitler.
Kanye has publicly clashed with ex-wife Kim, 44, about the co-parenting of their 11-year-old daughter, North and their three younger kids – daughter Chicago, seven; and sons Saint, nine, and Psalm, five – claiming he has not been allowed to see them. All pictured
Kanye spoke more about the controversy in a series of posts on February 20 – promising to wear the swastika shirt onstage at the Super Bowl.
‘Next year I’m performing at the superbowl wearing my wittle T shirt,’ he said. ‘People with money bought my wittle t shirt.’
He added that Shopify ‘gave [him his] account back’ after taking down his store after controversy erupted over the shirts, but that he was ‘not going to use it.’
Sources close to Kim told DailyMail.com that she is now taking extra precautions and has hired guards to be with her 24/7 amid his erratic behavior.
The reality star has also told relatives to be careful sharing anything about her children online, the source revealed.
She has instructed her closest allies not to post about their locations or upload photos or messages that could identify where they might be.
‘She’s absolutely horrified,’ the source told the Daily Mail. ‘Like every time things get bad with Kanye, somehow they get worse.’
They finalised their divorce in 2022 and agreed to joint custody of their children, but the conflict between them has continued.
