Ye (formerly Kanye West)’s two-night homecoming at Soldier Field served as a love letter to Chicago. Friday’s (Sept. 4) spectacle celebrated West’s legacy, influence and family tree touching three different decades.

The show was a star-studded affair, bringing 15 guests into the fold for a loaded, 60-track setlist that spanned about three hours. While past tours have been filled with rants and streams of consciousness, Ye kept the talking in between tracks to a minimum Friday night, running through hit after hit and inviting a range of collaborators to share the globe-shaped stage with him.

After a destructive few years filled with antisemitic rants and outbursts, Ye has largely walked a straight path since taking out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal in January apologizing for his actions.

The damage has left him taking an unconventional route when it comes to touring, as he’s partnered with independent touring company IKON Presents for select stadium dates throughout 2026, which will continue with shows in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix later this year.

More than 70,000 fans laced up their Yeezys and donned tour merchandise over the past two days in Chicago, showing many are willing to overlook Ye’s controversial past — including his superstar friends that joined him on stage.

From The College Dropout toBully, there was something for every generation of Ye fan. Day ones celebrated a reunion with those instrumental to the early success of Yeezy, like GLC, Consequence, Really Doe and Twista, while others moshed to appearances from the Cactus Jack family, such as Travis Scott and Don Toliver, both of whom have been open about Ye’s impact on their own careers.

It’s impossible to predict what the future holds for an artist as mercurial as West, but it’s clear there’s a path for him back into America’s mainstream, even if some choose to continue to ignore him in plain sight.

Find the seven best moments from night two of Ye’s Chicago shows below.

It was a two-night homecoming for Ye (formerly Kanye West). Yeezy set the bar high on Thursday night (Sept. 3) at Soldier Field, then threw his own festival in Chicago on Friday (Sept. 4), bringing out a staggering 15 guests for a setlist spanning 60 songs.

The nearly three-hour set served as a love letter to his hometown, while touching on every era of his career from The College Dropout through 2026’s Bully. Ye has proven to be the ultimate collaborator throughout his career, and he assembled an Avengers lineup for a sold-out 70,000-person crowd at Soldier Field.

At times it felt like a family reunion, with Ye reconnecting with Really Doe and GLC, who were West’s The Go Gettas groupmates in the mid-’90s, as well as Consequence, Lupe Fiasco, CyHi, Common and Twista, the latter of whom can still rap at hyper-speed with ease at 52.

Rick Ross pulled up for his show-stopping verse on “Devil in a New Dress,” which marked the first time they performed the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy standout in a decade, while Cactus Jack family Travis Scott and Don Toliver brought the energy with their guest appearances.

The main event surprise was a heartfelt Kid Cudi reunion, as he joined Ye on the global stage for “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1,” “Ghost Town,” and even stuck around to perform his “Pursuit of Happiness” anthem. “I told y’all I had some surprises,” Ye quipped.

Over the past two decades, Cudi and Ye’s friendship has experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows, but the Kids See Ghosts collaborators are back on good terms following an apology from Ye earlier this year. “Tn was just another epic night on a list with many other epic nights w my big bro love u Chicago,” Cudi wrote on X after the show.

West’s antisemitic rants and antics during years past have made traditional touring in the U.S. trickier for Ye, who has been able to book spot stadium dates throughout 2026, which have been selling out to capacity crowds.

Ye has teamed up with touring company IKON Presents to put on the U.S. shows, which will continue on Halloween in Houston and then he’ll head to Dallas and Arizona in November.

Find all of Ye’s guests from his Chicago homecoming below.