Ye Brings Out Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott for L.A. Comeback
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- Ye headlined his second sold-out comeback concert at 70,000-capacity SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. on Friday, April 3, livestreamed on YouTube, bringing out a parade of guest performers.
- Lauryn Hill made a surprise mid-show appearance atop the orb-shaped stage, performing "All Falls Down" with Ye, then her own "Doo Wop (That Thing)" that flowed into Ye's "Believe What I Say" — a track that sampled her 1998 debut LP — with her sons Zion and YG Marley joining for "Praise Jah in the Moonlight."
- Travis Scott appeared earlier in the night wearing a mask and an "Unsane" shirt, performing collab track "Father" (the March 28 lead single from Bully) and Utopia hit "Fein," while CeeLo Green delivered the album's title track and North West returned from night one to rap "Bless Me" and "Piercing on My Hand."
- Ye closed both L.A. nights with "Runaway" from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and offered no commentary on the backlash over his years of antisemitic rhetoric or his January Wall Street Journal apology.
- The Hill appearance echoed a February 2025 Download podcast comment where Ye told Justin Laboy he felt Bully was "my Miseducation" — a direct invocation of Hill's seminal 1998 record that landed on stage 14 months later.
Why it matters: Ye is filling sold-out 70,000-capacity SoFi shows with legacy collaborators — Lauryn Hill, whom he sampled on 'All Falls Down' but couldn't clear in 2004 — rather than addressing the backlash over his antisemitic rhetoric or his January WSJ apology. The YouTube livestream broadcasts that strategic silence to a global audience while his Bully rollout continues.
