At one point during Chicago rehearsals for the Saint Pablo tour, Kanye West turned to his production people and asked: "Why do we have to have a stage, anyway?" Thus began a push to focus on a 16-by-20-foot platform, surrounded by old-school white lights known as Par Cans, so West could float 15 feet above the audience
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: How Kanye West Made His Saint Pablo Stage Fly