Ye Invites Lauryn Hill and Travis Scott to Join Him on Stage for Second L.A. Stadium Concert
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Ye heightened the excitement at his second comeback concert at SoFi Stadium.
The 48-year-old hip-hop artist, formerly known as Kanye West, captivated fans during a sold-out show at the Inglewood, California stadium on Friday, April 3, featuring a lineup of surprise guests, including Lauryn Hill and Travis Scott.
Midway through the performance at the 70,000-capacity venue, Ye introduced Ms. Hill, who captivated the audience as she emerged through a dense cloud of smoke for a standout performance of “All Falls Down.” This track, which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2004, samples Hill’s 2002 song “Mystery of Iniquity” from her MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 live album.
Hill excitedly stayed on stage for multiple performances, including a rendition of “Doo Wop (That Thing)” that seamlessly transitioned into West’s “Believe What I Say.” She later brought her sons, Zion Marley and YG Marley, onto the stage for performances of “Heartbeat,” “Crisis,” and “Praise Jah in the Moonlight,” the latter of which YG co-wrote with his mother.
Last year, Ye compared his then-unreleased album Bully to Hill’s influential 1998 album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
“Yeah, because you lean on a bar that brings somebody down — that was always rap,” West said during a February 2025 episode of The Download podcast. “This is more the way I remember Lauryn Hill[‘s] album, the way I remember Miseducation. I feel it is my Miseducation. It is my Gnarls Barkley album. Because Bully has a title and connotation that a lot of people are anti-bully. But I’m just hyper-next-level frequency right now.”
Earlier in the evening, Ye invited Scott for a collaborative performance of the lead single “Father” from Bully, with Scott donning a mask and a shirt emblazoned with the word “Unsane.” He also performed his own hit “Fein” from Utopia.
Other notable guest appearances included CeeLo Green, who joined Ye for a performance of the title track from Bully, and Ye’s 12-year-old daughter, North West, who performed “Bless Me” and “Piercing on My Hand.” North also made an appearance during Ye’s opening SoFi show earlier in the week. André Troutman was additionally brought on stage for a rendition of “All the Love.”
With the release of Bully, Ye appears poised to embark on a global tour, including three nights headlining the Wireless Festival in London from July 10–12. This marks his first U.K. show since 2014, with an additional performance scheduled in Italy shortly thereafter.
