Kanye West held his first proper concert in five years last night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum bringing Drake for a mini set to publicly officiate the end to their feud.
Like his album listening events of recent memory, it was a marquee event streaming on both Amazon and Amazon Music’s Twitch channel in 240 countries. Tickets sold for upwards of $200 and sold out hours before the concert to the Coliseum’s 77,500.
West dedicated the concert to raising awareness for prison reform and proceeds benefitted Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, Hustle 2.0 and Uptown People's Law Center.
Stage development while sparse was ambitious nonetheless, a tall, 360° mound designed by Jeremy Thorn. The concert was screened in IMAX in select cities in the States.
The show started at around 12:30 AM (est) after two delays left audiences waiting at the promised curtain of 11:00 PM (est). Kanye’s Sunday Service gospel choir opened the concert, devising somewhat of a moment of prayer with covers of Fugees’ “Ready or Not” and Adele’s “Easy On Me.”
Kanye then took the stage to play a slew of career spanning hits many of which he had not played since 2016. West played “All Falls Down” which had notably been left off most Pablo sets much to the delight of Drake who could be seen rapping along side stage. West came out to the Travis Scott-featuring “Off the Grid” shouting out “La Flame.” Scott’s first interview since the Astroworld tragedy with Charlamagne tha God was released yesterday morning.
Drake then took the stage to play a twelve-song set featuring a number of CLB live debuts, notably opening by singing “24,” the gospel centrepiece of West’s DONDA. West had played Drake’s early hit “Find Your Love” which West produced earlier in the night. Many fans took to Twitter to mock Drake’s underwhelming song selection versus West’s, which stretched his legendary catalogue.
Here’s all the footage below and a few memes as well:
Carmina Burana: O Fortuna (Carl Orff cover)
Ready or Not (Fugees cover)
Easy on Me (Adele cover)
UNKNOWN HYMN
UNKNOWN HYMN
Ultralight Beam (Kanye West song)
Ultralight Beam (Intro only, sung by Sunday Service Choir.)
Praise God (Aborted during Baby Keem’s verse; Live debut)
Jesus Walks
All Falls Down
Gold Digger (First time live since 2016)
Touch the Sky (First time live since 2016)
Stronger (First time live since 2016)
All of the Lights (First time live since 2016)
Black Skinhead
All Day (Aborted during intro)
Mercy (Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz cover) (Partial)
Good Life
Flashing Lights
Say You Will
I Wonder
Find Your Love (Drake cover)
Runaway
Can't Tell Me Nothing
24 (Kanye West cover) (with Kanye West)
Wants and Needs (Partial)
No Friends in the Industry
What's Next (Live debut)
Life Is Good (Future cover)
IMY2 (Live debut)
Laugh Now Cry Later
Girls Want Girls (Live debut)
In the Bible (Live debut)
Way 2 Sexy
Knife Talk
God's Plan
Hurricane (Live debut)
Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1
Niggas in Paris (JAY Z & Kanye West cover) (First time live since 2016)
Bound 2 (First time live since 2016)
Come to Life
Forever (Drake cover) (with Drake) (First time live since 2013)
Clip of Ye and Drake backstage tonight.#KanyeDrakeLive #FreeLarryHoover pic.twitter.com/oL7Iuq4RbI
— Photos Of Ye (@PhotosOfKanye) December 10, 2021
Mike Dean on guitar. pic.twitter.com/2wlPwVtklT
— SMACK (@smack_tweets) December 10, 2021
— Donda’s Place (@dondasplace) December 10, 2021
Stage by Jeremy Thorn #FreeHooverBenefit pic.twitter.com/NFKvFcI6di
— Donda’s Place (@dondasplace) December 9, 2021
Kanye got me smoking weed at church
— weed & wagyu (@jessethechef) December 10, 2021
there’s no way drake saw kanye’s set list and decided to perform these songs
— Corn ✮ (@sneerid) December 10, 2021
drake does NOT want larry hoover to be free
— Corn ✮ (@sneerid) December 10, 2021
Everybody waiting for Drake to play his classics pic.twitter.com/PVgcg9NmBa
— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) December 10, 2021
Drake listening to Kanye while waiting for his turn to play Way 2 Sexy pic.twitter.com/2XrCpr3DPy
— Stephen A. Smith Burner (@SASBurnerAcct) December 10, 2021
drake does NOT want larry hoover to be free
— Corn ✮ (@sneerid) December 10, 2021
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