Kanye West will give two concerts in St. Petersburg on October 10 and 11. These performances promise to be a real event in the music world. Initially, there were rumors that Polina Gagarina, Ani Lorak, Dima Bilan, Sergey Lazarev, and SHAMAN would open for the American rapper. However, these speculations were quickly refuted: "No one will be there," TASS stated.

A new wave of rumors arose around a possible duet between Kanye West and Yaroslav Dronov, known as SHAMAN. SHAMAN's representatives stated that Kanye West offered the Russian artist to sing a duet. Allegedly, West's representatives even contacted Dronov's manager, but SHAMAN, not accustomed to performing as an opening act, refused.

Internet users, taught by bitter experience, immediately doubted the veracity of these statements. "Kanye, apparently, is also not yet aware that he was refused," "Shaman ran after Kanye for three days and three nights to say how indifferent he is to him," commentators ironized.

And, as it turned out, the skeptics were right. Anna Subcheva, owner of Say Agency and organizer of West's concerts in Russia, clarified: "I responsibly declare that, as the organizer of Mr. West's performance in Russia, I did not contact the representative of the artist SHAMAN. I did not ask them for a joint performance. Who and why contacted the representative of the artist SHAMAN is a mystery to me. It certainly wasn't me," the show-woman stated. Thus, the story of the duet turned out to be someone's fabrication.