Kanye West’s show in Amsterdam featured a Michael Jackson song snippet, and covers of his work with Estelle, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney.
The controversial hitmaker is set to tour around Europe, though he will miss out on three performances after the UK government barred West from entering the country. West has returned to the stage to promote new album Bully and will perform in Georgia, Spain, and Portugal this summer. A select few shows in the United States are also planned. The Black Skinhead hitmaker took to Amsterdam last night (June 6) for a show at the Gelredome in Arnhem. Also featured were songs from his new album, Bully, as well as pieces from Graduation and The College Dropout. FourFiveSeconds, the song West performed with Rihanna and McCartney has also featured in his setlist.
A setlist for West’s show at the Gelredome, Arnhem can be found below.
- King
- Father
- Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1
- Can’t Tell Me Nothing
- N– in Paris
- Mercy
- Praise God
- Black Skinhead
- On Sight
- Blood on the Leaves
- Carnival
- Power
- Bound 2
- Heartless
- All the Love
- Punch Drunk
- Highs and Lows
- Beauty and the Beast
- Everybody
- Famous
- FourFiveSeconds (Rihanna, West, and Paul McCartney cover)
- All Falls Down
- Jesus Walks
- Through the Wire
- Gold Digger
- Touch the Sky
- American Boy (Estelle cover)
- Good Life (preceded by snippet of Michael Jackson’s Pretty Young Thing)
- Homecoming
- All of the Lights
- Flashing Lights
- Stronger
- Ghost Town
- Runaway
West had been set to return to the UK this June for three performances in London, his first in the UK in a decade. The last time West performed in the UK was at Glastonbury 2015. The three shows have since been cancelled. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has said: “The past comments and actions of this artist are offensive and wrong, and are simply not reflective of London’s values.”
Last year, West released a song glorifying Adolf Hitler and was subsequently blocked from entering Australia. The All of the Lights hitmaker is no stranger to controversy, having been dropped by sports brand Adidas in 2022 over West’s antisemitic comments.
West would take out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal to apologise in a letter titled To Those I’ve Hurt in January 2026. It, in part, reads: “One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments – many of which I still cannot recall – that led to poor judgment and reckless behaviour that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body-experience.
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though.” West alleged he was diagnosed in 2023, with the condition traced back to a car accident in 2002, The Guardian reported.
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