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Kanye West has had his visa cancelled by officials due to his antisemitic song titled “Heil Hitler,” which has been removed from streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.
The rapper and fashion designer is married to architectural designer Bianca Censori, who was born in Australia and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in architecture from the University of Melbourne. The pair, which tied the knot under a confidential marriage license in December 2022, were likely visiting for a holiday.
Speaking to ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, Immigration Minister Tony Burke said the musician, who was not coming to Australia for advocacy purposes, would not be welcome after releasing the song. “I’m not taking away the way the act operates, but even for the lowest level of visa, when my officials looked at it, they cancelled that following the announcement of that song,” he said. “We have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry.”
This is the first time that a low-level visa application like Ye’s has been cancelled for these reasons, according to Burke.
He said that typically, a “stricter line” applies to those who want to visit Australia for the purposes of public advocacy, but that was not the intention of West. Still, his office saw enough reason to cancel the visa after the release of the antisemitic song “Heil Hitler,” which was released on May 8, 2025, as the third single from his upcoming album, In a Perfect World.
The rapper recently announced that he was “done with antisemitism”, releasing a song titled “Hallelujah” on May 31 as an alternate version of “Heil Hitler” that replaces its references to Nazism with lyrics relating to Christianity.
“He’s made a lot of offensive comments that my officials looked at again once he released song,” Burke continued.
“He’s got family here … 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 if you’re going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism, we don’t need that in Australia.”
The rapper has recently announced concerts in Korea, Shanghai, and Slovakia for July 2025 and a one-night performance in Brazil in November 2025. His last performance was a Vultures Listening Experience in September last year at the Wuyuan River Sports Stadium in Haikou, China.
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