Kanye West to Play SoFi Stadium Show In Major Booking After Antisemitism Backlash

Kanye West will perform a one-night Los Angeles concert at SoFi Stadium in April, the venue announced Monday, marking the rapper’s most high-profile U.S. show in years after West had faced widespread backlash across the entire entertainment industry over his stream of antisemitic comments going back to 2022.

West will play SoFi on April 3 for what is advertised as his “only performance in Los Angeles,” according to the venue’s announcement. The stadium said a general on-sale for tickets will take place on Wednesday at 11 a.m.

West’s concerts have been rarer since the controversial rapper’s antisemitic comments from 2022 onward. His comments have ranged from spreading stereotypes about jews to voicing his admiration of Adolf Hitler and calling himself a Nazi. He’s He performed several shows and listening events in China and Korea in 2024 and 2025, and he played two shows in Mexico in January.

West’s booking agency CAA dropped him as a client in 2022 after West had tweeted a call for “death con 3 on Jewish people,” and Cara Lewis had reportedly represented him in 2024. Though by February of 2025, he was represented by booking agency 33 and West, with the agency’s Daniel McCartney dropping him following another round of antisemitic actions when West infamously took out a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to a website where West was selling t-shirts with swastikas on them.

Booking West has become a risk for promoters for years not just because of hateful comments, but because of reliability concerns as well. West famously canceled the remainder of his Saint Pablo tour after suffering a mental health breakdown in 2016, and in 2022, he canceled headlining sets at both Rolling Loud Miami and Coachella weeks before those shows.

A representative for SoFi Stadium confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that rapper Rod Wave’s promotion company Mainstay Touring would serve as the promoter for April’s concert.

West’s upcoming show comes as the rapper looks to be mounting another comeback. He took out an ad in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year apologizing for his hateful statements, citing his untreated bipolar disorder and brain trauma for his claims while further saying “I love jewish people.”

“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment and meaningful change,” West’s ad said.

While West’s actions lost him CAA as well as deals like his Adidas Yeezy venture, he’s remained one of the most streamed artists in the industry, coming in at 10th on Spotify’s year-end 2025 list for top-10 artists in the U.S. He currently has nearly 70 million monthly listeners on the platform.

Amid news of the apology, it was confirmed that West’s next album Bully would be coming March 20. Independent music company Gamma, whose roster also includes Mariah Carey, Usher and Snoop Dogg, is partnering with West for the release. The Journal reported in January that the deal was in the mid-to-low seven figures.

The deal, coupled with an upcoming promoted concert at one one of the most prominent venues on the planet, shows that even through the most extreme controversies, if there’s an audience who may be willing to buy, Hollywood will come back to partner up.