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\n\tKanye West<\/a>, the rapper-producer now known as Ye, returned to the stage in Los Angeles with only music on his mind during the first of his two-night stint at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Wednesday, April 1. His comeback concert follows years of headline-grabbing <\/a>controversies<\/a>, mental health struggles, and his public apology in a Wall Street Journal <\/em>ad this past January for his antisemitic remarks. In rare form, the usually unfiltered artist offered no commentary on the backlash during his first major musical U.S. outing in several years.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tCancel culture had little effect on the headliner as thousands of fans, decked out in Kanye gear (sans swastikas) and luchador-inspired shirts straight from the merch booth, packed the floor section and venue. Peep the pricing, and Ye is still getting paid to play his catalog despite his real-world antics. Per Ticketmaster, a GA ticket for his April 3 show currently retails at $537.80 each. Resale tickets for upper-level seating, which provide a better view of Ye\u2019s half-Sphere set-up, cost several hundred dollars. Online onlookers caught the livestream, announced hours before Wednesday night\u2019s show, on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n \n\tFor two hours, Ye powered through a meandering setlist of nostalgic hits and repeat numbers mixed with crowd-pleasers from his recently released twelfth album, Bully<\/a><\/em>. With a black mask on, he sauntered by himself along the top of his dome-shaped stage that mirrored Earth and, at times, a lonely planet of one.<\/p>\n \n\tThe audience showed range as Gen Z fans sang and swayed along to newer material like \u201cFATHER\u201d and the Andr\u00e9 Troutman-assisted \u201cALL THE LOVE.\u201d A mosh pit also broke out for \u201cBlood on the Leaves.\u201d For the elder millennials, the bittersweet spot was the medleys of older Kanye cuts released from 2004 to 2016 (think The College Dropout <\/em>to The Life of Pablo<\/em>). The defiant \u201cCan\u2019t Tell Me Nothing\u201d and triumphant \u201cN\u2014-s in Paris\u201d rang out from the SoFi Stadium as though Graduation <\/em>or the joint Jay-Z LP Watch the Throne <\/em>had just dropped. \u201cSay You Will\u201d and \u201cHeartless\u201d from 2008\u2019s 808s & Heartbreak <\/em>brought familiar aches of love lost and memories of Auto-Tune supremacy. The hard-hitting finale of \u201cAll Falls Down,\u201d \u201cJesus Walks,\u201d \u201cThrough the Wire,\u201d \u201cGood Life,\u201d \u201cAll of the Lights,\u201d and the poignant closer \u201cRunaway\u201d triggered a yearning for simpler, happier times \u2014 for ourselves and Chicago\u2019s very own.<\/p>\n