INGLEWOOD, Calif.—Siblings Wendell and Whitney Cole became fans of Kanye West, the artist who now goes by Ye, when they were in middle school. They went to sleep to the sounds of the album “Graduation” and woke up to it before school. Roughly two decades later, the siblings flew from New York to Los Angeles to attend Ye’s first U.S. stadium show in more than four years, as he attempts a mainstream redemption from past antisemitic and racist statements. Whitney isn’t such a die-hard fan anymore, but bought birthday tickets for her brother, who still connects with the art, if…

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