{"id":7420,"date":"2014-10-28T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T14:46:46","slug":"kanye-west-turns-down-vegas-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=7420","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Turns Down Vegas Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj1.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"kanwest.ohsodj\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj1.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>How many times does Ye have to tell you he&#8217;s an artist first. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ye reportedly turned down a $4.5 million offer for a nine-show gig at The Axis at Planet Hollywood. According to a report from TMZ, the deal would have made him the highest paid entertainer on the coveted Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n<p>The offer would have scheduled West to perform three shows per week for a three-week span, totaling $500K a show, earning him more than Celine Dion, Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez. Celine currently holds the crown at $476K a show, with Britney and J.Lo trailing at $475K and $350K respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Well here&#8217;s a little insight into why Ye may have turned down Vegas.  Back in 2012, he supposedly earned $600K per show with Jay Z on their Watch The Throne tour if Forbes tells it. He also reportedly doubled his yearly earnings in 2014, earning him a spot on the magazine\u2019s Hip-Hop Cash Kings list. So &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>How many times does Ye have to tell you he&#8217;s an artist first.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[654,807],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-kanye-west","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-1VG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/kanyew_teaching_ohsodj.jpg?fit=250%2C232&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}