Saint Pablo Tour
| World tour by Kanye West | |
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| Associated album | The Life of Pablo |
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| Start date | August 25, 2016 |
| End date | November 19, 2016 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 41 |
| Kanye West concert chronology | |
The Saint Pablo Tour was a concert tour by American rapper Kanye West in support of West's seventh solo studio album, The Life of Pablo (2016). The rest of the tour was canceled on November 21, 2016 due to West's hospitalization.
The design of Saint Pablo Tour featured a "first-of-its-kind floating stage" which was composed of a main stage and an auxiliary stage that had an intricate system of pulleys and tracks designed to be connected to the frame of each arena. The floating main stage had lights on the edge as well as on the bottom portion, which would occasionally shine on the audience. The second stage was composed of four rectangular portions which would move and provided ambient light for each song. The stages could then be manipulated to the needs of the tour, incorporating the audience into the experience at each concert as visitors would be able to engage with Kanye West. Each show had three sections separated by two intermissions, with uses of light increasing as the performance progresses. Some of the portions appeared to be influenced by various themes in popular culture, such as the show's intermissions which were similar to Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg.
West began the Saint Pablo Tour in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 26, 2016, introducing his new stage design to the public, impressing the attending audience. On October 2, 2016, West cut his performance short at Citi Field in New York City following news of his wife Kim Kardashian West being robbed at gunpoint in Paris. Two tour dates were also cancelled the following week.
Kanye's returning concert following Kim Kardashian West's incident was performed in his hometown of Chicago at the United Center on October 8, 2016, where he arrived on stage an hour and a half past schedule and "made no mention of his wife or the incident, in a show in which he barely spoke to the crowd at all". In San Jose, California during his November 17 performance, West spoke about American politics and stated "If I would have voted, I would have voted for Trump", with some fans booing and throwing items on stage. In Sacramento on November 19, 2016, West performed three songs before he diverted the performance and spoke about Facebook, Jay Z, Hillary Clinton, Beyoncé, and then proceeded to walk of stage, later cancelling further dates of the tour due to stress and exhaustion while ticketholders were given a refund.
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