Kanye West 'spends $500 a day' getting his head shaved

West even paid a barber to move to New York from Chicago to work for him full-time

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Kanye West’s low-maintenance haircut is apparently a lot more expensive to maintain than it looks, with the rapper reportedly spending $500 (£326) getting his hair cut every single day.

Quite how anyone can justify $255,799 (£167,000) annually on a shaved head when a bag of Bic razors retails for about £1.50 is anyone’s guess.

The news came, bizarrely, from Rihanna’s dad, Ronald Fenty, who spoke to Heat magazine about West’s grooming regimen, having spent a month on tour with his daughter when she played some shows with West.

“It’s crazy — Kanye gets a haircut every day,” he said. “He pays his barber $500 a time. I don’t understand how that much hair gets taken off. Kanye just loves the fresh look.”

Ibn Jasper, the man with the high-pressure job of cutting West’s hair, told the magazine he moved to New York from Chicago at the rapper’s request, after he said he didn't feel comfortable getting other people to do it.

“Whenever he was wearing [his] orange hat, it meant he’d gotten a f****d-up cut in NYC,” Ibn laughed.

“He asked me to move to NYC and I told him, ‘When you can pay me what I make in the shop, then I’ll move.’”