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Prime Minister Edi Rama is under fire for deploying $4.9 million from state reserves to bankroll the controversial rapper’s Tirana performance—a move critics label a "bread and circus" plot to drown out weeks of fierce anti-corruption protests over a Jared Kushner-linked resort.

The fallout over Wireless announcing Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) as its 2026 headliner was both swift and considerable.