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Kanye West Cancels 2 Barclays Shows and Rest of 2016 Tour

By Nicole Levy | November 21, 2016 3:39pm | Updated on November 21, 2016 4:47pm
 Kanye West has canceled the remaining 21 dates of his Saint Pablo tour, including two at Barclays Center in December.
Kanye West has canceled the remaining 21 dates of his Saint Pablo tour, including two at Barclays Center in December.
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Time to rethink you New Year's Eve plans, Yeezy fans. 

A Kanye West representative confirmed to Rolling Stone Monday that the rapper has canceled the remaining 21 dates of his Saint Pablo tour — including two at the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights on Dec. 30 and 31.

It's been a rocky year for Kanye fans in New York City, with him set to take the stage three times but never actually getting there or cutting things short.

First, there was the weather-related cancelation of all performances for the final day of Governors Ball on Randalls Island, including a set by West, in June. Later that month, there were the false rumors of a 2 a.m. pop-up concert at Webster Hall —  spread in part by West himself —  that drew a mob to the East Village venue. In October, there was the abrupt end to the rapper's close-out show at The Meadows festival in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, after his wife, Kim Kardashian West, was reportedly robbed at gunpoint in a Paris apartment.

The Saint Pablo tour's dissolution comes on the heels of a California concert at which West played three songs, then launched into a 17-minute tirade addressing subjects as varied as MTV and President-elect Donald Trump. (Among his controversial statements, West said he would have voted for the Trump, had he cast a ballot at all.)

According to a source who spoke to TMZ, the artist is now pulling the plug because "he's just exhausted. He's been working around the clock on fashion design, both his own line and the Adidas line."

West first hit the road to promote his seventh album, "The Life of Pablo," in August. He played two concerts in New York City at Madison Square Garden in early September.

For ticket-holders denied the chance to see West hovering above them on a suspended platform, there is one consolation: tickets will be "fully refunded at point of purchase," his representative told Rolling Stone.