US rapper Kanye West plans to hold a listening session for his new album in Haikou on the Chinese island of Hainan on September 15. What many fans in the West don’t know is that „Ye“ lived in Nanjing as a child, where his mother worked as an exchange teacher. The controversies surrounding Kanye West’s anti-Semitic remarks and his overall erratic behavior do not seem to deter his followers in China. The 30,000 tickets for the event sold out within three minutes, despite prices of up to 2000 RMB. Some joked online: Only those like him who have lived in China know that the coastal city of Haikou even exists.