“Let’s take it back to Day 1!” These were unexpected words from Kanye West, now legally re-named Ye, hosting a massive benefit concert Thursday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Where his most …
, hosting a massive benefit concert Thursday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Where his most recent public spectacles have been wildly ambitious and sometimes confounding, and always focused hard on the newest work, this opening statement suggested something different: a re-connection to the music that first introduced him as an ambitious young artist to watch.
Drake was his special guest of the night, with a set of nearly a dozen songs, but in every meaningful way it was again Kanye’s moment. Reflecting his taste for stagecraft, the Coliseum presentation was both simple and epic, with a mountain-shaped stage on the stadium floor, and clouds of stage fog giving it the look of a smoldering volcano.
Then came “Gold Digger,” “Touch the Sky,” “Stronger” and “All of the Lights” — all from his early albums, when he was introduced to the pop music world as a brilliant new voice in hip-hop, an ambitious rapper, writer and producer. Yeezy himself seemed energized by the material’s inherently youthful fire and confidence.
In most of it, the music and performance acted as a new chapter in Ye’s personal, public drama. That gave “Runaway,” from 2010’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” new resonance of pain in light of his separation. Over a spare tapping piano melody, Ye adjusted the final lyrics into a personal note of heartbreak to his ex: “Baby, I need you to run right back to me … More specifically, Kimberly.”
Drake’s set was less generous with long-established hits, and leaned on highlights from his sixth studio album, “Certified Lover Boy,” yet another U.S. No. 1 album. But when Ye left the stage, the flavor of the night shifted into Drake’s direction, with songs less tortured, more romantic, and a delivery soothing as often as he was combative.
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