Ye Brings Yeezy Back to the Runway With Two Unreleased Songs and Kid Cudi in the Crowd

Yeezy Season 01 had a soundtrack nobody has heard. Ye staged his first Yeezy runway show since 2022 on Wednesday (Nov. 4) in Los Angeles, a 17-minute presentation soundtracked by unreleased music, Billboard reports. It was held at the brand’s new Los Angeles flagship, where a show had been reported on Oct. 22 by Complex, citing Puck.

Guests stood in a circle around a white dome while models walked out in black military-style gear: combat boots, trench coats and leather jackets, followed by tan boots and red pants, sweaters, T-shirts and bomber jackets. Highsnobiety counted earth-toned catsuits, mock-neck jackets, faded jeans and cargo pants, plus a couple of lingerie pieces and tall opaque heels alongside the military boots. Nettspend, the rising rap star we profiled last month, was one of the models.

On the first song, Ye sings “Must be out my mind/ Haven’t felt this way in a long time” over a high-pitched sample and drums. A second, with a siren blaring in the production, repeats “I went through your phone/ Who the hell is Tone?/ I went through your phone.” Billboard’s account names neither track.

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Kid Cudi was among the guests, with Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Jerry Lorenzo, India Love, Bianca Censori and Ye’s four children with Kim Kardashian: North, Saint, Psalm and Chicago. Cudi told TMZ his favorite part was “Everything,” HotNewHipHop reports.

I’ve been waiting for a Yeezy show for a minute. So it was just beautiful to see my big bro back out there, doing his thing, you know? Like, it was a really clear and thoughtful vision. It was beautiful to see.

Kid Cudi, HotNewHipHop, quoting TMZ

Ye and Cudi publicly reconciled in September at Ye’s Chicago concert, HotNewHipHop notes, at the homecoming that also reunited Ye with Big Sean.

That last show, in Paris in 2022, is where he wore a White Lives Matter shirt and made antisemitic remarks that ended his adidas deal, Highsnobiety notes. In January he took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad to apologize, as we reported, attributing many of his comments to his mental illness. Highsnobiety’s verdict on the clothes was that they looked backward: “Ye doing Yeezy 2015 in 2026, not a redux so much as it is a sample — a remix.”

Ye has two shows left this year: AT&T Stadium in Dallas on Saturday (Nov. 7) and Glendale, Ariz., on Nov. 21. His album Bully, out in March, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.