Kanye West returns to the stage in Los Angeles for his biggest American show in years, announcing a one-night concert at SoFi Stadium on April 3, billed as his “only Los Angeles performance.”
The show, which goes on general sale Wednesday, March 11 at 10 a.m. PT, comes as West, who performs as Ye, prepares to release his new album. Bully on March 20.
The list also includes Mariah Carey, Usher and Snoop Dogg.
Fans who pre-register for the show by pre-saving the album to their website will have the opportunity to receive free tickets.
The announcement marks a significant moment in what has been an extraordinarily turbulent few years for one of music’s most commercially powerful and personally controversial figures.
West’s last public performance was a listening experience for his album. vultures in Haikou, China, on September 15, 2024.
Since 2022, his concerts have become increasingly rare following a sustained and widely condemned stream of anti-Semitic comments that cost him his partnership with Adidas, his relationship with booking agency CAA, which fired him after he tweeted a call for “death with 3 against the Jewish people”, and his subsequent representation.
By February 2025, his then-recruitment agency 33 and West had also parted ways after West ran a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to a website selling t-shirts with swastikas on them.
Reliability has also been a concern for developers.
West canceled the rest of his Saint Pablo tour in 2016 following a mental health breakdown, and in 2022 he pulled out of headlining shows at both Rolling Loud Miami and Coachella just weeks before those shows.
Earlier this year, West took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal addressing those he had hurt.
“In early 2025, I fell into a four-month manic episode of psychotic, paranoid, and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life,” he wrote.
He described his anti-Semitic behavior as driven by untreated mental illness and brain trauma, adding: “I am not a Nazi or an anti-Semitic. I love the Jewish people.”
He also apologized to the black community.
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and I am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change,” the announcement said.
Through it all, West remains one of the most streamed artists in the world, finishing tenth on Spotify’s list of top US artists by the end of 2025, with nearly 70 million monthly listeners on the platform.
The treatment for Bully It was reportedly reached in the mid-to-low seven figures.
As one of the most prominent spots is reserved for the rapper, the question of whether the industry’s appetite for his comeback outweighs the memory of his controversies appears to be answering itself.
