Ye Stops Concert 3 Times to Rail Against ‘Corny’ Lighting

Ye Takes the Stage in Los Angeles, Hoping to Wash Away His Sins

For more than two hours Wednesday night, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, performed on a futuristic orblike stage that was at times illuminated to resemble a spinning globe. For that finite amount of time, his half-decade of antisemitic and racist controversies did not seem to matter to him or his followers. Instead, he appeared on top of the world. The smell of smoke from erupting fireworks, the glare of lights from lasers and the l…

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Kanye West halts LA show to complain about lights during apology-free comeback

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Ye stops California concert three times to rail against ‘corny’ lighting

Kanye West, now legally known as Ye, stopped his own Los Angeles show no less than three times Wednesday to address the "'SNL' skit"-esque production.