Key Takeaways
- Ye brought out Kid Cudi, his surprise guest at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” on Saturday (Nov. 7).
- The show reportedly broke Ye’s U.S. stadium rap attendance record of 80,210 fans, set just a week earlier in Houston.
- The reunion continued the pair’s reconciliation after their 2022 fallout. Cudi has defended their renewed friendship: “He apologized and it was sincere.”
Kanye West’s record-breaking Saturday (Nov. 7) show at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, became another reunion with Kid Cudi.
After the stadium announced Cudi as the surprise guest for the Dallas-area show, he came out late in the night to join Ye on “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1."
Loren Lorosa of The Breakfast Club reported that the show became the highest attended rap show in U.S. history with 83,000 tickets sold. Ye also beat his own record of 74,412 tickets sold for the Halloween show at NRG Stadium in Houston last weekend.
Video from the Arlington stadium also shows Ye performing "Can't Tell Me Nothing.”
Ye and Cudi fell out publicly in 2022 after Ye removed Cudi's work from Donda 2, while Cudi was friends with Pete Davidson. During the feud, Cudi said it would take "a motherfucking miracle" for them to be friends again.
By July, Cudi was telling fans on X that the pair was "rebuilding." On Sept. 4, he joined Ye at Soldier Field in Chicago for "Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1" and "Ghost Town," the first time they had shared a stage since Coachella 2019. When Peter Rosenberg criticized the reunion, Cudi answered him on X.
"That man is my brother… He was dealing w mental health struggles for years and now hes good,” he wrote. “Everyone deserves some grace when they family. I was the hardest on him out of anybody. I held him accountable. He apologized and it was sincere."
Ye's next U.S. stadium date is Nov. 21 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, which holds about 78,600 seats.
