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Local residents in North London have reacted to the controversy over Kanye West headlining the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, after sponsorship partners pulled out and the Prime Minister criticised the booking over the rapper’s past antisemitic remarks.
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00:00Yeah, I'm not surprised that some people might have different opinions about it.
00:05I liked him as a kid growing up when, before he was how he is now.
00:10So if he was to come, I would like to hear him as like the old Kanye
00:14and for some of his songs, not all,
00:17but I can understand if some people don't really agree with him being a headline for wireless.
00:24I guess it's a shame that a festival of such big renown
00:29has got someone like that and I guess doesn't have the morals to maybe vet their candidates
00:34or prioritise that kind of stuff over musical popularity.
00:38But in a way, it's probably not massively surprising.
00:40I feel like a lot of festivals don't do that too well.
00:43I hadn't heard about that, but equally, maybe people are trying to sell tickets.
00:49I know he has said some horrendous things,
00:50so he shouldn't really be headlining a major festival at all, no.
00:53He has been punished quite a bit for the things he said,
00:55like, you know, he's dropped by Adidas and, you know,
01:00loads of people won't work with him and stuff, so I don't know.
01:03But, yeah, I wouldn't not, I wouldn't go to wireless just because I wouldn't go anywhere,
01:08but it wouldn't stop me from, I wouldn't like,
01:11what's the word, protest or anything like that.
01:13I don't know.
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