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Ye stops concert 3 times to rail against 'corny' lighting

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

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Kanye West, now who legally goes by Ye, stopped his SoFi stadium show mid-performance three times Wednesday to call out the “corny” production.

The 48-year-old embattled Grammy winner, who hadn’t played Los Angeles since 2021, struggled to get through a performance of “Good Life,” as he continually took umbrage with the lighting, according to footage published by TMZ.

“Pause, pause, pause,” directed Ye. “Yo, I don’t like when these lights move like that.”

He compared it to “a disco” something, which was bleeped out, adding that the lights “don’t go with the stage” and told the crew to “stop doing that” before he apologized to the audience: “Run it back.”

Within seconds, the “Heartless” rapper once again said, “Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop” and called the combination of effects and lighting “corny.”

He once more instructed production — through the mic’s auto-tune effect — to “run it back,” picking up from where he’d left off only to halt again.

 

“What is this, an ‘SNL’ skit?” West asked, with further remarks also being bleeped out. “Stop, stop, stop. … Stop doing the vibrating, Vegas lights, bro, like… we went over this in rehearsal.”

It wasn’t clear whether the noise from the crowd signaled approval or exasperation before Ye said, for the third time, to “run it back” and appeared to continue without incident.

Fan footage also showed daughter North West, Ye’s eldest of four children with ex-wife Kim Kardashian — performing her track, “Piercing on My Hand.” She also reportedly performed her dad’s 2024 song, “Talking.”

Back in January, Ye used a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to “Those I’ve Hurt” for years of antisemitic and racist screeds, as well as out-and-out promotions of Nazism and Adolf Hitler. West denied speculation that the move was a means of damage control ahead of the release of his album, “Bully.”

Though it was expected to drop days after the ad, a limited release of the album did not occur until March 27.


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