Kanye West performs at The Museum of Modern Art’s annual Party in the Garden benefit. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Jason Persse

San Antonio city officials confirmed to the Current that controversial rapper Ye won’t stage an encore show the day after his July 4 Alamodome concert.

Even so, the contract signed with the hip-hop artist formerly known as Kanye West earlier this month allowed for one.

As part of that agreement, signed on June 3, Ye’s promoter had the right to request a second concert at the Alamodome on July 5 as long as the written request was made 15 days in advance.

City spokesman Brian Chasnoff confirmed Friday that no such request had been made in that window. Ye’s camp was unavailable for immediate comment.

Word of the second possible Ye concert comes after a week of controversy surrounding the performance. Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones wrote in a social media post that she wanted to cancel the event over the rapper’s history of antisemitic remarks.

“Military City USA should not host someone with a record of hate speech and antisemitic comments in a city-funded facility like our Alamodome — not ever, and certainly not on July 4th, our Nation’s 250th birthday,” Jones said in a tweet last weekend.

Jones admitted during a Tuesday press conference that she didn’t have enough council support to cancel the show. Even so, she secured a small victory after the city amended its contract with Ye, asking him not to perform his song “Heil Hitler” or sell swastika merchandise at the concert.

“The fact that we even had to ask for those things is ludicrous,” Jones told KSAT-TV during a Tuesday night appearance.

Ye has faced backlash and is banned from traveling to the United Kingdom and performing in Italy due to antisemitic remarks he made last year. The artist has since apologized for his comments, attributing his behavior to a manic episode stemming from bipolar disorder.

Even so, Jones said during this week’s press conference that Ye’s excuse doesn’t pass the smell test.

Ye’s July 4 concert in San Antonio is predicted to have a $1.7 million impact on the local economy, according to a memo from city council members who opposed canceling the concert. Most of the 50,000 tickets sold as of Monday were purchased by people who live outside the San Antonio area.

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Michael Karlis is a multimedia journalist at the San Antonio Current, whose coverage in print and on social media focuses on local and state politics. He is a graduate of American University in Washington,...