Kanye turned down $4.5 mil to perform in Vegas

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Kanye don't need that Vegas bread, look at all yal in here like, :patrice:

"I don't know Ye..."

Respect his decision, he prolly feels he's more than a Vegas act which does have a different connotation attached to it at this point in his career

 

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Some of ya'll come off as people who hate Hip Hop. So a rapper could never get paid big money for Vegas residency b/c they lack stage presence and showmanship. Like Britney Spears is some dynamic performer.
 

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Artists that do Vegas residency are seen as something to check out once you finished hitting the slots. You dont want to do that when you are in your prime.
 

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Celine Dion =/= Kanye West

Celine Dion has a perception of a past prime artist living off of legacy.

The only exception to this rule is the one Beyonce did. Vegas is not a place you want to be seen performing if youre a current artist.

thats gonna change though. just like you said somebody in their prime has to start the trend. why not beyonce?
 

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Kanye is international and generally considered bigger than the genre.

Eminem is not.
nikka please

eminem selling out motherfukking castles and stadiums overseas... he might be :flabbynsick: these days with the music... but he just sold 10 million 2-3 years ago and still sells out every stadium he goes to nationally and internationally

Celine Dion =/= Kanye West

Celine Dion has a perception of a past prime artist living off of legacy.

The only exception to this rule is the one Beyonce did. Vegas is not a place you want to be seen performing if youre a current artist.

doing 1 show is not doing 100 shows.. beyonce ain't tying herself to vegas.. this is one of the reasons why we said no rapper can do this... cause their careers aren't gonna be put on hold to live in vegas for 150 days out of the year

they actually have real shyt to be doing... britney ain't doing nothing new or need interviews, press, tour, etc etc.. ye ain't trying to sit around vegas when he got beats to make, new music to make and shyt to sell

Some of ya'll come off as people who hate Hip Hop. So a rapper could never get paid big money for Vegas residency b/c they lack stage presence and showmanship. Like Britney Spears is some dynamic performer.


that's not what we said in the other thread... it's vegas.. international audience.. white people.. they don't want hip-hop crowds :mjpls:

and the most important part, if you go to the post with the videos... is these are shows.. brittney looks horrible but you got set pieces moving, dancing around, cosutmed nikkas running out, shyt falling from the sky... for an hour and a half

then add in brit is getting 475k A SHOW!!! you'd have to draw those crowds every 2 days to pay for it.. 70, 565, 600, 2500 tickets and shyt.. you talking brit and celine who have both sold over 100 million records





a couple people correctly guessed that kanye has those types of sets.. and also could command the price.. but then the argument was he wasn't :flabbynsick: enough to take the offer... which is exactly what happened
 

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nikka please

eminem selling out motherfukking castles and stadiums overseas... he might be :flabbynsick: these days with the music... but he just sold 10 million 2-3 years ago and still sells out every stadium he goes to nationally and internationally



doing 1 show is not doing 100 shows.. beyonce ain't tying herself to vegas.. this is one of the reasons why we said no rapper can do this... cause their careers aren't gonna be put on hold to live in vegas for 150 days out of the year

they actually have real shyt to be doing... britney ain't doing nothing new or need interviews, press, tour, etc etc.. ye ain't trying to sit around vegas when he got beats to make, new music to make and shyt to sell




that's not what we said in the other thread... it's vegas.. international audience.. white people.. they don't want hip-hop crowds :mjpls:

and the most important part, if you go to the post with the videos... is these are shows.. brittney looks horrible but you got set pieces moving, dancing around, cosutmed nikkas running out, shyt falling from the sky... for an hour and a half

then add in brit is getting 475k A SHOW!!! you'd have to draw those crowds every 2 days to pay for it.. 70, 565, 600, 2500 tickets and shyt.. you talking brit and celine who have both sold over 100 million records





a couple people correctly guessed that kanye has those types of sets.. and also could command the price.. but then the argument was he wasn't :flabbynsick: enough to take the offer... which is exactly what happened

The Hip Hop artists who would draw those kinds of crowds are still putting out music that people are paying money for. They don't have to do residencies. It's not necessarily about them moving 100 million records. There's other living artists who belong to that 100 million+ club, but don't have residencies. Some of them are still putting out music that sells more than what a Britney Spears and Celine Dion album would sell combined worldwide if they released an album now. One of those artists is a rapper.

Furthermore, a lot of people who cop the top sellers by Hip Hop artists aren't necessarily Hip Hop fans. It's not like Britney's target audiences are her core fans either. The songs and albums that were huge were big with teeny boppers who are grown-ups now
 
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