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 perform as the opening acts for the American rapper. However, these speculations were quickly refuted: "There will be no one," TASS reported.

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

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

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 can responsibly state that, as the organizer of Mr. West's performance in Russia, I did not contact SHAMAN's artist representative. I did not ask them for a joint performance. Who contacted SHAMAN's artist representative and why is a mystery to me. It certainly wasn't me," the showwoman stated. Thus, the story of the duet turned out to be someone's fabrication.