By Sandra Sperounes
Fans of Toronto hip-hop star K-os are cheapskates. During a recent trek across Canada, he let fans pay what they want — they got in for free, but they were asked to make ‘karma’ donations before they left.
As it turns out, fans only paid an average of $6, according to Billboard.biz and the artist’s manager Terry McBride. (In comparison, tickets to the rapper’s 2007 shows were about $30 plus service charges.)
Prior to the launch of his pay-what-you-want tour, K-os said he wouldn’t be disappointed with the outcome. He performed at the Edmonton Event Centre in May.
“You don’t get into music for money, man,” he told The Journal. “My dad used to say, ‘To chop down weeds, you’ve got to let them grow.’ If you’ve got a garden, you can’t just keep cutting the grass — you want to see what’s in there so you can treat it in the right way. If people are paying nothing, then we’ve seen what’s in the garden and we can move on.”
K-os won’t be moving on without a few dollars in pocket— Rogers Wireless covered most of the costs of his tour.
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