Summary
- Ye drew a reported 100,000+ fans to AT&T Stadium in Dallas on November 7 — the largest rap concert in US history, per stadium officials
- Kid Cudi and Erykah Badu joined a 42-song setlist running from Dark Fantasy to Carnival
- It is Ye’s third attendance record this year, one week after 80,210 fans in Houston
The record lasted seven days. Last Saturday it was Houston and 80,210 people; this Saturday Ye walked into AT&T Stadium in Dallas and played to a reported crowd of more than 100,000 — which stadium officials confirmed as the largest rap concert in US history and the fifth-biggest concert of any genre the country has ever hosted.
Kid Cudi walks out, and Dallas loses it
The night’s loudest moment was not a song. Midway through the set the lights dropped, a single beam hit the mound at midfield, and Kid Cudi walked out to join Ye — the two running through Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 together years after their public fallout and the Kids See Ghosts era. Erykah Badu, Dallas royalty, also joined for On & On. The 42-song setlist reached back to Dark Fantasy, Waves and Can’t Tell Me Nothing and ran through Mercy, Praise God, Black Skinhead, Blood on the Leaves and Carnival.
Three records in one year
This is the third time in 2026 that Ye has broken the US rap attendance record — a mark he already owned. The run started at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, moved to Houston’s NRG Stadium on Halloween weekend (80,210), and now Dallas has reset it again. Whatever the discourse around Ye looks like in a given week, the live numbers are doing something no other rapper has done: six-figure stadium crowds, solo, on a catalog that spans two decades.
Why this one matters
A 100,000-person rap show reframes what the genre’s ceiling even is. Pop and country acts own the historical stadium table; a hip-hop artist sitting fifth on the all-time US concert list — with a setlist built on album cuts, not a festival bill — is a genuine first. The Texas run also closes the argument about demand: two records, two cities, eight days apart.
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