Loud chants echoed through Salt Lake City’s Delta Center, while strobe lights flickered onto the crowd and 808s quaked from the arena’s speakers. “Yeezy. Yeezy.
Yeezy. Yeezy, ” fans screamed throughout the night, as two masked figures paraded on a white floor in the middle of the arena. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign hosted their first “Live Vultures Listening Experience” Friday night, just a week after the pair of rappers dropped their collaboration album “Vultures 2′′ last Saturday.
The project is the sequel to their “Vultures 1′′ album that was released six months ago and landed at No.1 on the Billboard 200. In two hours, thousands of Utahns were able to listen to some of Ye’s select hits from such classic albums as “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and “The Life of Pablo,” and a plethora of songs from both him and Ty Dolla $ign’s two latest collaborations.
Throughout the week, since announcing the event , the rappers teased the event through online posts, including a text conversation posted on Instagram between Ye and Utah Jazz guard (and 2020-2021 NBA Sixth Man of the Year) Jordan Clarkson. “Yo Ye, salt lake city Friday? Sound like the move,” Clarkson said in a three-lined text. “Yessiiiir.
Good hearing from you. How you been,” Ye responded. Despite the text confirmation from Clarkson, some fans still speculated whether or not Ye and Ty Dolla $ign would show up for the event.
But, as the clock struck a l.