Ice Spice cancels her $275,000 EKU live performance however nonetheless collects $68,000 below the deal’s cancellation phrases.
Ice Spice simply canceled her Jap Kentucky College live performance, and he or she’s nonetheless strolling away with $68,000.
EKU had agreed to pay the rapper $275,000 for a single 50-minute set on the Fall 2026 Massive E Welcome Live performance. That present, scheduled for August 21 at Alumni Coliseum, is formally off the varsity’s calendar now.
Fox 56’s report on the cancellation says an EKU spokesperson confirmed the present was scrapped “attributable to unexpected circumstances” by means of a mutual deal between the varsity and the artist.
EKU negotiated a cancellation price equal to 25% of the unique contract quantity, protecting company bills already incurred.
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That works out to $68,000, cash the rapper retains regardless that she by no means takes the stage. All of the remaining funds initially put aside for the live performance have been returned to the student-funded Jap Expertise account.
A contract obtained by the Herald-Chief by means of Kentucky’s open data regulation exhibits EKU paid a $125,000 deposit when it signed in February.
The remaining $150,000 was due on the day of the present, which is not taking place. The college had additionally agreed to “present sound and lights, DJ backline, video wall, pyro and all rider necessities, per Artist specification.”
The contract additionally assured dressing rooms described as “two-three fully devoted, totally air conditioned and safe dressing room(s) with a clear bathroom and scorching/chilly water.” She was additionally set to maintain 80 to 90% of the income from merchandise offered on the present, per the settlement.
The deal had barred Ice Spice from acting at different Kentucky colleges, together with the College of Kentucky and College of Louisville, earlier than the EKU date.
EKU can be weighing a tuition enhance and already prices college students a compulsory $225-per-semester Massive E Expertise Payment. Some college students had already criticized the college for spending so closely on a single performer.
EKU says the Massive E Welcome Week will nonetheless run a full schedule of different pupil occasions constructed to assist new college students settle in, even with out the live performance.
