Rolling Loud got off to a rocky start Friday in Miami as headliner Kid Cudi left the stage mid-set after being bombarded by items thrown by audience members and Kanye West made a brief appearance during Lil Durk’s performance despite dropping off the lineup less than one week earlier.
Footage shared to social mediaInitial footage showed Cudi being hit in his face with what appeared to be a water bottle during a performance. Cudi was initially shown being hit in the face with what appears to be a water bottle while performing. “Day ‘n’ Nite”Later, it is shown that the rapper threatened the audience by cutting off his set due to his behavior. “I will fucking leave. If I get hit with one more fucking thing — if I see one more fucking thing on this fucking stage, I’m leaving,”He said. “Don’t fuck with me.”Cudi launches a water bottle towards the rapper. Cudi then walks off-stage, leaving behind his microphone. began to chant West’s name.
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Cudi was selected to replace West, which is somewhat controversial.Donda 2The festival was cancelled after the rapper pulled out. (Fans had pressed Rolling Loud organizers to replace West with Travis Scott, leading to a bizarre incident in which one of the festival’s co-founders falsely claimed the event’s venue prohibited Scott from performing due to his association with a fatal crowd surge at his Astroworld festival last year.)
Ye still attended the festival in his usual style. He made a surprise appearance onstage with Lil Durk, while wearing a full-face mask. West performed a segment from his show.Pablo: The Life of PabloFollow “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1” — a song, fans noted, contains vocals by Cudi. This move was evidently deliberate as West criticized Cudi for being friends of Pete Davidson in February. (The former Saturday Night Live star is currently dating West’s ex-wife, kim Kardashian.) “Just so everyone knows Cudi will not be on Donda because he’s friends with you know who,”West wrote the following in an Instagram post that has since been deleted.
Cudi called West to respond. “dinosaur”In reply to the post, West later accused West of lying in a series tweets. “God opens the door so the wrong people can exit ur life,”He Tweeted.