The artist formerly known as Kanye West marks his return to Mexico City on Friday (Jan. 30) with the first of two scheduled shows at Monumental Plaza de Toros La México.
As pointed out in press notes ahead of the back-to-back shows, Friday’s performance is Ye’s first in Mexico City since he brought his Glow in the Dark Tour to the region in October 2008. Organizers have billed the two 2026 dates (which are also being streamed) as featuring “one of the most ambitious productions in the venue’s history” for what they say is a total expected draw of more than 74,000 people.
Ye performed “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” “Power,” and lots of other hits. Check out some footage below. He also brought out his daughter North to perform “Only One.”
Ahead of the Mexico City shows, Ye made headlines for taking out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal in which he credited his wife, Bianca Censori, with encouraging him to “finally get help” following what he described as a months-long “manic episode” last year.
“In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life,” Ye wrote. “As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn't want to be here anymore. Having bipolar disorder is not a state of constant mental illness. When you go into the manic episode, you are ill at that point. When you are not in an episode, you are completely 'normal'. And that's when the wreckage from the illness hits the hardest.”
Elsewhere in the extended statement, Ye addressed his past hateful remarks and behavior, including his decision to sell swastika t-shirts.
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change,” he wrote. “It does not excuse what I did, though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite.”
In a subsequent email interview with Vanity Fair, published Jan. 27, Ye addressed speculation among those hesitant to take his latest statement at face value, saying his decision to speak out now “isn’t about reviving my commerciality.” To emphasize his point, he cited recent streaming stats.
A final version of Bully, Ye’s next studio album, was at one point expected to be arriving this month. However, its release is now slated for March 20.
Ye’s last formal solo entry, Donda, arrived in 2021 . A sequel, Donda 2, was initially conceived as a project for his since-abandoned Stem Player device, though a wide streaming release of a still-seemingly-unfinished version of the project came in April of last year.
Also in 2025, six years in Ye’s life were chronicled in the In Whose Name? documentary. Complex recently spoke with director Nico Ballesteros, who revealed that he found “another film” while going through unused footage from the documentary shoot.
“When I went back into the footage to explore alternate and extended cuts, it became clear that another film was embedded within the unused material, one that I am working on now,” Ballesteros said when asked about a previously teased director’s cut.