Kanye West Surprises Rolling Loud Crowd After Pulling Out As The Headliner

Rolling Loud started off with a bang on Friday with Kid Cudi walking off stage after getting booed and stuff thrown at him and a surprise performance by Kanye West — who Cudi replaced as a headliner after he canceled his performance. 

Footage of Kid Cudi getting hit with water bottles has been widely circulated on social media. The “Day ‘n’ Nite” rapper threatened to walk off stage if one more thing was thrown his way and a crowd member called his bluff, resulting in the rapper leaving after four songs. 

Meanwhile, despite pulling out of the festival, Ye made a surprise performance during Lil Durk’s set. In addition to performing Cardi B’s “Hot Shit,” which features verses from both rappers, Kanye performed “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” from The Life Of Pablo. Curious song choice since the track has vocals from Kid Cudi.

The song choice seems petty, considering Ye and Cudi publicly blasted each other back in February. Ye was upset that Cudi was friends with Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson, who is currently dating Ye’s ex, Kim Kardashian. 

“Just so everyone knows Cudi will not be on Donda because he’s friends with you know who,” West said in a now-deleted Instagram post.

The post set Cudi off, and he took to Twitter to call Ye a “dinosaur.”

Check out video of Ye at Rolling Loud below.