Is Kanye West Playing Portland in July?

JAM'N 107.5 deleted a tweet announcing a concert date at Moda Center.

By Matthew Singer

Beyonce, Rihanna and Adele all skipped Portland on their current tours, but at least one landscape-shifting artist has love for the Rose City: Kanye West.

Well, maybe. Rumors have been circulating since last month that West was planning to tour in support of his released-yet-somehow-not-finished new album, The Life of Pablo. Nothing has been confirmed, but according to Pitchfork, Portland's JAM'N 107.5 is one of two radio stations to jump the gun on the official announcement.

On Wednesday, the station tweeted—then quickly deleted—that the world's most divisive pop star would be playing Moda Center on July 8. It also put up a web page announcing that tickets would go on sale this Tuesday, March 29, which was also taken down. (See the cache here.)

A DJ in Atlanta also tweeted on Friday that the "St. Pablo Tour" would be hitting Phillips Arena in August, but it, too, was deleted.

If true, it would be West's first show in Portland since 2008, and first tour since 2014. Guess we'll know for sure soon.

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