TMZ: Kanye West hospitalized in L.A.
Kany West has reportedly been hospitalized just hours after announcing the remaining dates of his Saint Pablo tour have been canceled and days after a strange rant about Jay-Z and Beyonce.
TMZ reports officers responded to a welfare check at West's L.A. home and took him to the hospital Monday afternoon. Sources told TMZ he was being checked out by his doctor for severe sleep deprivation when it was decided that he needed to be admitted.
Citing law enforcement sources, TMZ says West went to the hospital against his will and was restrained and handcuffed to a gurney.
A representative for the rapper said Monday the remaining 21 dates of West's current tour have been canceled. No reason was given. Live Nation said tickets will be "fully refunded at point of purchase."
The tour, now in California, was to make stops through Dec. 31 in Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C., among others.
The cancellation comes after a complex weekend for the musician, who ended a concert early in Sacramento, California, on Saturday, then canceled a performance Sunday in the Los Angeles area.
Saturday's truncated show became a hot topic on social platforms as amateur videos circulated of a 10-minute tirade by West about Beyonce, Jay Z, Hillary Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, the radio and MTV.
Over the weekend, West also flooded his Instagram account with nearly 100 fashion photos, many snaps of photos that were out of focus and poorly cropped.
On Friday, during a concert in San Jose, California, West said he didn't vote but would have cast a ballot for Trump, praising the president-elect's "method of communication" as "very futuristic."