has announced he will return to the stage in the UK for the first time in 11 years, with the rapper set to headline all three nights at .
The controversial music star, 48, will take to the stage in London's Finsbury Park in July in a bid to salvage his tattered reputation following a string of unsavoury outbursts over the years, such as his antisemitic comments.
Kanye detailed how his bipolar disorder caused him to lose 'touch with reality' in a page-long advertisement earlier this year.
Given Kanye's recent struggles, there are already doubts over whether the star will make it to the stage due to his flaky performing history.
In July, furious fans in demanded a refund after Kanye turned to his Shanghai show 40 minutes late, with the star doing similar in 2024 when he was an hour late for a show in .
His most famous stage incident came in 2016 when he started his show 90 minutes late, and stormed off stage after just three songs.
Kanye West has announced he will return to the stage in the UK for the first time in 11 years, with the rapper set to headline all three nights at Wireless Festival
Last year's Wireless saw Drake perform as the headline act, but the event descended into chaos when thousands of fans were forced to queue for hours for his final show before it was cut short.
In videos shared on TikTok, festival goers were stood shoulder-to-shoulder pleading with security to let them in because they had tickets for the day.
However, it wasn't just general admission that was facing large queues, as VIP guests told Daily Mail that they had been forced to wait up to 'three hours' by security before coming to the conclusion they were not going to be let in and headed home.
And it wasn't just the festival goers who failed to gain entry that were left disappointed, as Drake's headline slot was cut by 50minutes.
The rapper arrived on stage 10minutes earlier than his scheduled time and warned the crowd that he would perform until his microphone was cut off - referring to the strict 21:30 curfew.
During his set, Drake brought out only three special guests Popcaan, Rema and Vybz Kartel compared to the 12 guests and 90minute run time on the Saturday.
It comes just days after Kanye finally released his much-delayed studio album Bully, after a reported eight postponements.
Kanye's ninth studio album was at the time pushed back by two months with the hitmaker telling how he planned to finish it in Africa.
However, after being pushed back a number of times, it was indefinitely postponed and eventually abandoned, with Kanye instead .
Kanye has publicly apologised for his antisemitic outbursts, and attributed them to the effects of his health battle, one which he says was .
In a statement appearing in the January 26 print edition of the WSJ, he alleged he sustained a brain injury during the accident that went 'unnoticed' at the time - with the 'medical oversight' sparking his bipolar disorder.
Kanye said the illness made him 'detached from my true self' and caused him to be drawn 'toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika '.
The advertisement, which was paid for by Yeezy and authored by West, was headlined 'To Those I Hurt' and described how, after 'hitting rock bottom' several months ago, he decided to seek help at the encouragement of his wife, Bianca Censori .
It all began in 2022 when he tweeted he was going 'death con 3 on Jewish people' - which got him promptly dropped by his agency CAA, production company MRC, Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga.
The Yeezy designer - who's worn swastika and 'White Lives Matter' T-shirts - has repeatedly
But in 2023, he claimed made him 'like Jewish people again' in a bizarre Instagram post.
'No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards 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 tattered reputation following a string of unsavoury outbursts (pictured at his last UK show in 2015)
Last year's Wireless saw Drake perform as the headliner, but the event descended into chaos when thousands of fans were forced to queue for hours before his final show was cut short
Last year Kanye said he decided to name the album Bully after learning his ten-year-old son Saint had allegedly kicked a child for being 'weak'.
'My son was playing with some kid and then he kicked him,' he explained to Justin Laboy on The Download.
'I asked my son, I said, "Why did you do that." And he said, "Cause he weak,"' West, who shares Saint with ex-wife Kim Kardashian, said.
'And I was like, "This man is really a bully right here,"' Kanye added with a laugh.
'Saint, you're the reason for bully!' LaBoy said.
'Don't Saint do that? Just kick everybody and like push him over,' Kanye added.
LaBoy cracked Saint inherited that trait from 'young Ye.'
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Kardashian for comment.
The year before fans praised the star's 'genius' new song Beauty and the Beast which now features on the album.
He dropped a teaser for the song which includes cryptic lyrics including 'It's been a long time coming' and 'Thinkin' 'bout it every night and day to try to stay away, to keep my audience up.'
More followers added: 'It’s so beautiful he had to post it twice!!' and my goat could literally retire right now and his legacy would already be cemented as one of the most influential artists of all time, yet he’s still putting out bangers simply for the love of the game. Look at Ye man.
It comes after his wife Bianca arrived to testify shortly after plaintiff Tony Saxon was seen entering the Los Angeles Superior Court.
It has since been revealed that Kanye and his team are taking a victory lap after a jury awarded a contractor suing him $140,000 – 'a small fraction' of the $1.7 million he had been seeking with the litigation.
His spokesman, Milo Yiannopoulos, told the Daily Mail that the contractor, Saxon, recovered 'only a small fraction of what his lawyers demanded' with the $140,000 – after asking the jury for 'approximately $1.7 million.'
Yiannopoulos said the jury rejected almost all of [Saxon's] claims in the case, which saw both Kanye andBianca take the stand to testify.
Kanye decided to name the album Bully after learning his ten-year-old son Saint had allegedly kicked a child for being '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, 'they awarded no damages for lost wages, overtime, waiting-time penalties, retaliation, punitive damages, or any other statutory penalties.
'The only damages awarded were $140,000 related to Saxon’s claim that he was injured while working on the property.'
West Coast Trial Lawyers attorney Neama Rahmani told the Daily Mail that his client Saxon was 'relieved' and 'vindicated' as the case drew to a close.
The verdict handed down to Kanye on Wednesday was split into $100,000 for Saxon's medical expenses, past and present, and $40,000 for past pain and suffering, Rolling Stone reported after reviewing the court ruling.
Saxon did not recover any damages for future pain and suffering or punitive damages, according to legal documents reviewed by the outlet.
Kanye had not been acting in 'malice, oppression, or fraud' in firing Saxon from the construction project, which the jury ruled was not a wrongful termination, according to legal docs.
'It took a lot of discussion to get to $140,000,' a juror in the case told the outlet. 'Some people wanted to go higher. We thought [Saxon] was injured, but there were too many other nebulous things to consider.'
Rahmani said of the ruling, 'Admittedly, we won some claims, we lost some claims – it was a mixed verdict – I'm not gonna say that it was a clean sweep by any stretch, but the fact that the jury found merit in our claims, found that [Saxon] was an employee, found that [Saxon] was injured on the job ... they gave him damages for his medical expenses – this is the law.'
Rahmani told the Daily Mail that the case involving Saxon marked the first time the rapper 'had ever testified in court,' adding, 'We have no problem litigating against Ye – we're the first law firm to push a case against Ye all the way to trial.'
