Kanye hospitalized after scrapping US tour
Kanye hospitalized after scrapping US tour
November 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Kanye West
November 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Last Updated: November 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM
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[/caption] LOS ANGELES - Rap superstar Kanye West was hospitalized on Tuesday with a “medical emergency” after canceling his tour, two days after a rambling onstage tirade against fellow artists Jay Z and Beyonce. The “Saint Pablo Tour” was set to run through Dec. 31 but all 21 remaining shows have been canceled, said a spokeswoman for promoter Live Nation. Hours later it emerged that West, 39, was being treated at a University of California, Los Angeles clinic, with gossip website TMZ reporting that he was undergoing psychiatric tests after being examined for exhaustion. Mike Lopez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said officers had responded to an early afternoon “call of a disturbance” at an address in Los Angeles known to be the rapper’s property. “That disturbance became a medical emergency where the fire department came and treated the individual,” he said, without naming West. Celebrity gossip website TMZ quoted an unnamed source saying the rapper was pulling out of the tour because he was exhausted. “He’s been working around the clock on fashion design, both his own line and the Adidas line,” the source was quoted as saying. Since August, West has performed around 40 dates in Canada and the US, rapping above the stage on an innovative “floating” platform. - AFP
Kanye West[/caption] LOS ANGELES - Rap superstar Kanye West was hospitalized on Tuesday with a “medical emergency” after canceling his tour, two days after a rambling onstage tirade against fellow artists Jay Z and Beyonce. The “Saint Pablo Tour” was set to run through Dec. 31 but all 21 remaining shows have been canceled, said a spokeswoman for promoter Live Nation. Hours later it emerged that West, 39, was being treated at a University of California, Los Angeles clinic, with gossip website TMZ reporting that he was undergoing psychiatric tests after being examined for exhaustion. Mike Lopez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said officers had responded to an early afternoon “call of a disturbance” at an address in Los Angeles known to be the rapper’s property. “That disturbance became a medical emergency where the fire department came and treated the individual,” he said, without naming West. Celebrity gossip website TMZ quoted an unnamed source saying the rapper was pulling out of the tour because he was exhausted. “He’s been working around the clock on fashion design, both his own line and the Adidas line,” the source was quoted as saying. Since August, West has performed around 40 dates in Canada and the US, rapping above the stage on an innovative “floating” platform. - AFP
