LOS ANGELES (KNX) — Kanye West and Drake will reunite together, taking the stage at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Thursday night in a benefit concert to spotlight imprisoned Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover.
The Free Larry Hoover benefit concert will mark the first stadium performance by West—who now legally goes by Ye—in five years since his 2016 Saint Pablo Tour. The concert will be live streamed on Amazon Music and Prime Video and available for free in more than 240 countries and territories, according to Amazon Studios.
Ye has been a supporter of Hoover, who was sentenced to a lifetime in prison for a 1973 murder as well as crimes related to his gang leadership—even after he was locked up. Hoover is currently jailed in Colorado.
Organizers for the benefit concert said the event’s purpose is to raise awareness of the need for prison reform. Hoover and his family, however, worry it could impact his case.
“He has to be concerned because he doesn’t know how it may affect him,” Larry Hoover Jr. said in an interview Tuesday. “He’s concerned that it may affect him negatively because it’s showing his influence, but his influence is positive.”
Up until about a month ago, Ye and Drake had been feuding for some time. After both rappers dropped albums, Ye made an appeal to squash their beef in an Instagram video, asking Drake to join him in the benefit concert to support Hoover.
In the video, Ye was standing alongside Houston music executive J Prince, who was influential in launching Drake’s rap career after introducing him to Lil Wayne.
The two rappers then supposedly made up mid-November when Ye shared a picture of them in front of Drake’s home.
The #FreeLarryHoover benefit concert airs free on Amazon Prime Video at 8 p.m. PT and at select IMAX Theaters across the country.
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