{"id":2355196,"date":"2026-04-02T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2355196"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:45:08","slug":"kanye-west-takes-sofi-stadium-stage-for-controversial-la-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kanye-west-takes-sofi-stadium-stage-for-controversial-la-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West takes SoFi Stadium stage for controversial LA concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2F124877565.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Scandal-plagued rapper Kanye West played his first live Los Angeles show in five years Wednesday night \u2014 strutting on top of an elaborate orb-like stage at SoFi Stadium in front of tens of thousand of fans.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-time Grammy winner \u2014 who in late January apologized for his previous antisemitic comments \u2014 appeared in a mask above the smoke-filled sphere to kick off the show, the first of two at the Inglewood venue.<\/p>\n<p>He proceeded to play a number of hits spanning his 13 solo albums, streaming the entire show to his Instagram account.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@ye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@ye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>West paused the concert several times to gripe about the production, at one point throwing a tantrum about the lights while performing his 2007 hit \u201cGood Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The concert had drawn sharp criticism from Jewish groups and community leaders, who said it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/us-news\/jewish-advocate-slams-sofi-stadium-for-hosting-yes-concert\/\">\u201cspits in the face of every Jewish person in Los Angeles.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>West has a long history of making antisemitic statements, including praising Adolf Hitler, calling himself a Nazi and using Holocaust imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for his rare LA shows <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/23\/ticket-sales\/we-found-the-cheapest-tickets-to-see-kanye-west-at-sofi-stadium\/\">were still in demand despite the controversy<\/a>, with the lowest available seats starting at $125 and floor seats going for $595 including fees.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@ye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@ye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cYe: Homecoming\u201d concerts at SoFi mark West\u2019s first full\u2011scale US headline concerts since 2021, breaking a multi\u2011year pause in US live performances. Prior to the shows, he confirmed dates abroad, including two concerts in Mexico City in January 2026 and performances in China and South Korea in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Off stage in LA, West has faced recent legal troubles as well.<\/p>\n<p>A jury recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/11\/us-news\/kanye-west-ordered-to-pay-up-to-former-handyman-in-malibu-mansion-jury-trial\/\">ordered him to pay $140,000 to a former handyman<\/a> over unpaid wages, medical expenses and unsafe working conditions during massive renovations at the rapper\u2019s $57 million Malibu mansion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scandal-plagued rapper Kanye West played his first live Los Angeles show in five years Wednesday night \u2014 strutting on top of an elaborate orb-like stage at SoFi Stadium in front of tens of thousand of fans. The 24-time Grammy winner \u2014 who in late January apologized for his previous antisemitic comments \u2014 appeared in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2355197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,24510,22693],"class_list":["post-2355196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-kanye-west","tag-los-angeles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kanye-West-takes-SoFi-Stadium-stage-for-controversial-LA-concert.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355198,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355196\/revisions\/2355198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}