Kanye West Walked Away From $8.5 Million Coachella Paycheck By Quitting Festival — Report

hollywoodlife.com:

Kanye West, 44, is one of the biggest and richest rappers in the world, but he still left a lot of money behind when walking away from his upcoming Coachella gig.

The talented artist was apparently going to be paid $8 million for the headlining performance and Coachella was also going to pay an additional $500,000 for production costs, according to sources at Page Six.

The impressive amount still wasn’t able to hold Ye down though, as he cancelled his appearance less than two weeks before he was set to take the big stage.

Sources also told TMZ that although Kanye booked the festival, he still hadn’t seriously rehearsed for it, even though many artists spend weeks or months rehearsing once they know they’re going to be a part of the annual event.