Kanye West as soon as claimed that he “can’t be managed” however that’s not the case nowadays as sources inform Billboard on Monday (March 11) that John Monopoly is again as Ye’s supervisor.
A fellow Chicago native, Monopoly performed an integral position on the onset of West’s profession after discovering him within the early ’90s and serving as his supervisor alongside Gee Roberson and Kyambo “Hip-Hop” Joshua.
After splitting for over a decade, Monopoly discovered his approach into the Ye zeitgeist lately. Sources confirmed that Monopoly is now West’s supervisor in an official capability because the multi-hyphenate showered John with reward and recalled their historical past throughout a Vultures personal listening occasion in Los Angeles over the weekend.
West has been and not using a supervisor since parting methods with Izvor Zivkovic in March 2018 outdoors of a quick return for Roberson within the early 2020s surrounding Donda. Izzy had been affiliated with Ye for practically a decade. Scooter Braun was introduced into the fold as a co-manager in late 2015 however they’d cut up in April 2018.
With John serving to West, Kanye is placing collectively a world tour that’s set to start in just a few months, sources add. The worldwide trek will characteristic “full manufacturing and performances” versus the listening occasions Ye is at the moment taking part in.
The tour might be Kanye’s first since 2016’s Saint Pablo Tour, which was lower quick in November 2016 following West’s hospitalization. Ye appeared to have bother reserving the trek resulting from his string of current controversies, however sources say West is “getting ready” to hit the highway this summer time.
The 46-year-old has hit the stage at uncommon one-off alternatives throughout the previous few years. He joined Travis Scott’s UTOPIA Tour cease in Orlando on Jan. 31 as a particular visitor. He stunned Rolling Loud followers in 2021 and 2022 when becoming a member of Future and Playboi Carti’s units, respectively.
West’s final full live performance got here when he carried out in December 2021 in help of Larry Hoover’s freedom as he ended his feud with Drake to unfold consciousness of Hoover’s incarceration for a profit present on the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Kanye and Ty Dolla $ign are coming off of the impartial launch of Vultures 1, which topped the Billboard 200 in back-to-back weeks final month.
The duo is at the moment on the highway to Vultures 2 — which was initially imagined to arrive final Friday — as they took over Phoenix’s Footprint Heart on Sunday night time (March 10) for one more listening get together earlier than heading to San Francisco’s Chase Heart on Tuesday (March 12).
They’re slated to debut a stay efficiency of the Vultures sequence with a joint set at Rolling Loud California on Thursday night time (March 14).
Billboard reached out to Ye’s camp for remark.
