Jay-Z Told SoFi Fans 'You Got Eyes' After Resale Seats Hit $61

Blue Ivy, Scarface, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg joined him in Inglewood, where face-value seats had started at $129.

Jay-Z's last song in Los Angeles on Saturday turned into a speech. During "Encore," the closer of his second night at SoFi Stadium, he told the Inglewood crowd, "People will tell you that nobody was in here tonight, but you got eyes. You can see," Variety reported.

In Variety's reading, he was pushing back on online posts saying the stadium hadn't sold out and that many seats had gone out free. The ticket market had given those posts something to point at. On Tuesday, Consequence found resale seats for both nights starting at $61 with fees included.

That's less than half the face-value floor. Five days after tickets went on sale June 12, the cheapest seats in the 500 level cost $129, Grimy Goods reported. At the top end sat the Roc Boys On-Stage Viewing VIP package, actual bleacher seats on the stage, which opened at $2,389.50 and had already dropped to $1,913.50 days later.

Saturday was the softer night on the secondary market. Consequence counted more than 800 Saturday listings under $100. Friday had about 325, by the same Consequence count.

The weekend was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts. It was his first full solo concert in L.A. in close to a decade, The Hollywood Reporter noted, after he wrapped his 4:44 Tour at the Forum, across the street, in 2017. "I've been away too long," he told Friday's crowd soon after he walked out.

The other thing everyone measured was the guest list, and New York had set the bar. His July run at Yankee Stadium brought out Beyoncé, Rihanna, Eminem, Nas and Alicia Keys, Billboard reported. Beyoncé made it to SoFi on Friday, but only on a screen: THR said the show opened just before 9:30 p.m. with a video of the couple alone in the Yankee Stadium seats, her hand in his hair.

Friday's actual guests kept it close to family. Blue Ivy Carter played keys on "The Story of O.J." and "Dead Presidents." Scarface came out for "This Can't Be Life" and the Geto Boys' "Mind Playing Tricks on Me." DJ Khaled and John Legend joined for the last song, "God Did," on what Billboard counted as a 33-song night.

Saturday went West Coast. Too Short did "Blow the Whistle," and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg ran through their own catalog, "The Next Episode," "California Love," "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" and "Still D.R.E.," according to Variety's setlist. Variety suggested the thinner L.A. guest list might have been the point, after months of chatter about whether he could carry a stadium without a supporting cast.

That closed out Jay-Z 30, the celebration of three decades since his debut album, "Reasonable Doubt." Variety said it began with a headlining set at the Roots Picnic in late May. THR noted it also marked 25 years of "The Blueprint."

Which leaves February. Super Bowl LXI is at SoFi, and reports have said Jay-Z picked himself to headline halftime; Consequence noted that neither he nor the NFL had commented. On Friday, in the building that will host the game, he didn't mention it once, THR reported.

Source: Billboard, retrieved October 25, 2026. Other sources: Variety, consequence.net, grimygoods.com, The Hollywood Reporter.