The artist formerly known as Kanye West has been banned from entering Australia over his song praising Adolf Hitler, the country’s home affairs minister confirmed on Wednesday. West, now known as Ye, released a song titled “Heil Hitler” earlier this year, accompanied by a string of antisemitic X posts in which he declared “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi” which caused the Australian government to take a closer look at his visa status. “It was a lower-level (visa) 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,’” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told ABC on Wednesday. “We have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry.” Burke mentioned that Ye had family in Australia and that the disgraced rapper had been a regular visitor to the country prior to the cancellation. Bianca Censori, an Australian architect, married the singer in 2022. Burke’s office declined to comment on the exact date of the visa cancellation, Reuters reported.
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