Shane Gillis posted a backstage photo with Kanye West after Ye's San Antonio concert

Shane Gillis spent part of his Fourth of July at a Kanye West concert, and he left with a photo most people did not see coming.

The comedian posted an Instagram shot of himself, arm slung around Ye, backstage after the rapper's show at the Alamodome in San Antonio on Saturday night, per TMZ. No long caption, no explanation. Just the two of them standing there like it was the most normal pairing in the world.

It is not the most normal pairing in the world. It also is not out of nowhere.

They've been in the same building before

Back in May, TMZ reported that Gillis was on the lineup at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles when Dave Chappelle took the stage and brought Kanye out for an unannounced cameo. So the two have shared a room, or at least a green room, before this weekend.

There is more history than that. Gillis has said Kanye reached out to him years ago about working on something together, though nothing public ever came of it. And anyone who listens to his podcast knows Ye is a recurring topic. Gillis has opinions about Kanye, and he has aired plenty of them.

So the photo reads less like a random crossover and more like a thing that was probably going to happen eventually.

The rest of the backstage crew

Gillis wasn't the only one lining up for a picture. TMZ reported that Spurs rookie Dylan Harper also posed with Ye backstage, which makes for one of the odder hallway hangs in Texas: a stand-up comic, a rapper, and a No. 1 draft pick, all in the same spot on the Fourth of July. The show itself packed the Alamodome, with fans traveling in from out of state to catch it.

The concert came wrapped in controversy

To be clear about the setting, this was not a quiet booking. In the weeks before the show, the San Antonio mayor called for the concert to be canceled, while a majority of the city council signed a letter opposing cancellation, according to local reporting. The San Antonio Current reported that city officials asked Ye to refrain from singing about Hitler or selling swastika merchandise at the city-funded venue.

There was even a question of a second night. Under the June agreement, Ye's promoter could request a July 5 encore with 15 days' notice. City spokesman Brian Chasnoff told the San Antonio Current on Friday that no such request ever came in, so the encore never happened.

Whether the Gillis hang turns into anything, a bit, a podcast drop-in, a collaboration that finally sticks, is anyone's guess. For now it is a photo. But Shane clearly wasn't going to keep it to himself.