INGLEWOOD, Calif. – For more than two hours on the night of April 1, Ye, the American rapper formerly known as Kanye West, performed on a futuristic orb-like stage that was at times illuminated to resemble a spinning globe. For that finite amount of time, his half-decade of antisemitic and racist controversies did not seem to matter to him or his followers. Instead, he appeared on top of the world. The smell of smoke from erupting fireworks, the glare of lights from lasers and the lyrical chants from fans to his nostalgic hits seemed to blot out, however momentarily, the...