Kanye West Never Picks Up Mic During Rolling Loud ‘Performance’
The always unpredictable Kanye West has pulled yet another stunt, this time baffling fans and event organizers at Rolling Loud California after he “performed” as the festival’s headlining artist Thursday without ever picking up a microphone.
Instead, the rapper bounced around a stage in Los Angeles opposite Ty Dolla $ign, wearing his now-signature hockey mask and dancing to an hour’s worth of pre-recorded music from the duo’s newest album, Vultures 1.
The decision to not rap live—or even address the thousands of fans who shelled out hundreds of dollars to see him—appeared to perplex Rolling Loud organizers, who spent this week insisting to concerned concert-goers on X that West’s appearance would be more than just a listening party.