By J. Peterson For Dailymail.Com
18:54 15 Mar 2024, up to date 19:22 15 Mar 2024
Kanye West has been slammed following his headlining ‘efficiency’ on the Rolling Loud music competition with Ty Dolla $ign.
Whereas many followers had been anticipating the rappers to carry out reside, the pair shocked by taking the stage with out mics whereas songs from their chart-topping Vultures 1 album performed.
In response to the Los Angeles Occasions, ‘Kanye roamed round in a black jacket and a face masks as their songs performed over the competition’s sound system’.
Followers on social media had been outraged by the show, with many taking to X to vent their frustration.
‘Sounds such as you guys upset your followers AGAIN with Kanye and at this level it looks like a literal rip-off,’ one fan posted to Rolling Loud.
‘Wow horrible “efficiency” they usually didn’t drop the album does this get any higher,’ snapped one other.
‘When you introduced him to try this could as nicely not deliver him in any respect,’ posted one.
Though Ty and Kanye did not sing, the pair overvalued the gang and danced round to tracks from the album.
Regardless of the backlash on-line, movies from the occasion present an engaged viewers who had been fortunately singing alongside to Vultures.
Some followers additionally praised it on social media, with one writing, ‘I like that every one the pictures and video is like dramatic, gothic efficiency artwork.’
Kanye has a historical past of holding reside listening events for his albums, and has been doing it since his Lifetime of Pablo period in 2016.
Nevertheless, there’s some confusion over how his Rolling Loud gig was marketed, and whether or not or not it was clear sufficient about what followers may count on from the rapper’s present.
In response to Selection, ‘the competition had anticipated a extra typical efficiency as nicely, and even erected a particular stage with a round lighting rig for the set.’
Dailymail.com has contacted Rolling Loud for remark.
Kanye and Ty mentioned their efficiency type, dubbed ‘listening experiences’, with Huge Boy TV on Friday.
‘It’s nonetheless higher than different individuals’s reveals which have a mic,’ Ty mentioned.
‘What I’ve seen some time in the past is that there may very well be a band on a competition they usually go up there and kill it, and there is a DJ that simply goes on the market solo, by no means grabs a mic, they pay him far more, you understand what I imply? You may nonetheless do it with out grabbing a mic.’
He added, ‘We discovered a brand new manner. Simply from even the way in which that the lights are to the way in which that the smoke is popping out, all of that’s the present.’
Kanye additionally chimed in, describing the ‘smoke and the lights’ because the ‘opener’ for his or her present.
‘It is only a solution to deliver individuals into a special expertise,’ he mentioned.