JAY Z, KANYE WEST BANK $2.9M FOR PRIVATE SHOW

Hip hop’s most recognisable power duo and top earners Shawn ‘Jay Z’ Carter and Kanye West, commanded some of the highest performance fees in 2011 – and they’ve cemented that position further after they were recently paid a whopping $6M (N973M) for a private show in Dubai.

‘Hov’ and ‘Yeezy’ were reported to have been paid $2.9M (N470M) each as upfront payment for the show. The duo, whose flight expenses were also borne by multi-billionaire Sheik Mansour, were billed to perform at a sweet sixteen birthday gig for the Manchester City Football Club owner’s niece.

Having recently wrapped up their ‘Watch the Throne‘ Tour in America, Jay-Z revealed that a follow-up to the collaborative album may be forth coming. ‘We, I say ‘we’ because I’m in throne mode–we’re in a great place creatively. You might see a Jay, then Kanye and a throne album next year… We’ve really found our zone’, the Brooklyn native said.

The ‘Watch the Throne’ album, which was released in August, 2011, made its way to the top of the Billboard charts, selling 436,000 units in its first week, and has been certified platinum with over 1.1 million copies sold in the U.S.