venue\u2019s website<\/a>, it will be his only L.A. performance.<\/p>\nThe tour begins March 29 and includes stops in New Delhi, Istanbul, Marseille, Reggio Emilia and Madrid. The tour also includes two shows in Arnhem, Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Ye announced the tour ahead of the delayed release of his 12th studio album, \u201cBully,\u201d scheduled for March 27.<\/p>\n
Most recently, Ye performed two shows in Mexico City on Jan. 30 and 31. He featured a surprise performance by his daughter, North West. <\/p>\n
The last time Ye performed in L.A., he headlined the Rolling Loud California festival, joining Ty Dolla $ign onstage for a \u201clistening experience.\u201d The two did not deliver any vocals and rather wandered the SoFi stage while their \u201cVultures 1\u201d album played over the speakers. <\/p>\n
The announcement of the upcoming SoFi concert has drawn mixed reactions from students.<\/p>\n
Kaia Seldman, a senior majoring in theater and a member of USC Hillel, said the show is in poor taste. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s awful. It was better when we shunned him from society,\u201d Seldman said. \u201cHe\u2019s made antisemitism more mainstream than it already was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ye was banned from Twitter in December 2022 for posts with antisemitic comments, including ones that read, \u201cI love Hitler\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m a Nazi.\u201d He was further criticized for comments made in business meetings and other public appearances.<\/p>\n
In February 2025, he made remarks that included statements like, \u201cSome of my best friends are Jewish and I don\u2019t trust any of them.\u201d <\/p>\n
He also released a music video in May 2025, \u201cHeil Hitler (Hooligan Version),\u201d that contained the lyric \u201cSo I became a Nazi, I\u2019m the villain.\u201d<\/p>\n
In January, Ye published a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal apologizing for his behavior during what he described as a prolonged mental health episode in 2025 that included \u201cpsychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior\u201d that \u201cdestroyed\u201d his life.<\/p>\n
Ye backtracked on his previous statements in the Wall Street Journal advertisement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Ye attributed his mental health struggles in part to a car accident 25 years ago that broke his jaw and injured the right frontal lobe of his brain.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time, the focus was on the visible damage \u2014 the fracture, the swelling and the immediate physical trauma,\u201d he said in the advertisement. \u201cThe deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost touch with reality,\u201d he continued. \u201cThings got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said things that I deeply regret.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freshman economics major Hailey Pulis predicts Kanye will back out of the performance. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like there is a 50\/50 chance it\u2019ll actually happen,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it does happen, I could see a lot of protests taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seldman said she believes some students may attend the concert \u201cwithout realizing\u201d the severity of the artist\u2019s past statements.<\/p>\n
However, not all USC students are against Ye\u2019s return to the stage. Ezekiel Castanada, third-year music performance major, called the concert announcement \u201cchill.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, good for him,\u201d Castanada said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ye, the Chicago rapper formerly known as Kanye West, announced Monday that Los Angeles will be one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[84829,37601,66495,48,52,51,47,50,49,5712,18652],"class_list":["post-215583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bully","tag-grammy","tag-kanye-west","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-sofi-stadium","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}