In his new iteration as the comeback kid, Kanye West, aka Ye, staged a sold-out performance with an audience of 70,000 strong at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles last week Wednesday. His first major concert in the United States in nearly five years follows an apology from Ye for his years’ long frenzy of insane antisemitic comments, including a song that paid tribute to Adolf Hitler that he released less than a year ago.

In January, Ye took out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal apologizing to “those I’ve hurt,” explaining that his rocky history struggling with mental health issues such as bipolar disorder affected his behavior.

“My words as a leader in my community have global impact and influence. In my mania, I lost complete sight of that,” he said in the ad.

Ye told the enthusiastic crowd in Los Angeles, “I want to thank y’all for sticking by me all these years. Through the hard times, through the low times. I love you for that.”

Some concertgoers said that for them, Ye’s comments don’t matter as much as the music, and separating the art from the artist is more important to them. Others criticized his performance onstage, saying he was acting like a bully as he berated workers there.