Rumors circulated that hip-hop artist Kanye West will be the headliner for University Union Concerts’ Block Party on April 30.

UU officials, while in contact with The Daily Orange, have been remised to confirm West as the featured performer. For more than three weeks, UU officials have said they would announce West as the Block Party performer as soon as the artist signed the contract.

A series of problems, ranging from ticket sales and seat placement to communication with West have kept contracts from being finalized. UU Concerts, however, is said to be near a deal that would finalize a contract with West.

UU Concert officials refused to comment directly on this.

Malaka Gharib, program director for WERW and managing editor of 20Watts magazine, said UU President Dennis Jacobs and UU Concerts Chairman Adam Gorode told her West would be the Block Party featured performer more than two weeks ago.

‘It was very secret, but we wanted to make sure the contracts got signed,’ said Gharib, a junior magazine journalism and marketing major.

Gharib said she does not know details about West’s contract negotiations, but she did hear UU Concerts was working through the final contracts.

Published on April 11, 2006 at 12:00 pm