The world’s highest-paid celebrity may be boxer Floyd Mayweather, but handful of Hip Hop artists have also made their way onto Forbes‘ list of The World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities.
The list, which was released earlier this week, takes into consideration pretax earnings from June 1, 2017 through June 1, 2018 for celebrities around the globe.
Among the Hip Hop artists bringing in the most bank are JAY-Z, who is ranked at #25 with $76.5 million and Sean “Diddy” Combs, who landed at #32 with $64 million. Beyoncé also hit the list at #35 with $60 million.
Compton MC Kendrick Lamar isn’t too far behind and slides in at #37 with $58 million.
Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Forbes’ senior editor of media & entertainment, spoke on the impact social media has had on celebrity earnings in the past year.
“Forbes has been publishing the Celebrity 100 for 20 years, but there’s never been a more lucrative time to be famous than now, with 11 superstars earning $100 million or more over the past year,” Greenburg said. “Entertainers have found all sorts of new ways to monetize their audiences, especially with the help of social media—one need look no further than The Rock and Kylie Jenner, both in our top five.”
Other notables on Forbes’ The World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities list include:
The Weeknd — #39 — $57 million
Drake — #53 — $47 million
Will Smith — #71 — $42 million
Rihanna — #84 — $37.5 million
J. Cole — #93 — $35.5 million
Dr. Dre — #98 — $35 million
Nas — #98 — $35 million [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
Drake fans explain how the Weeknd has more money than Drake? I thought Drake was #1 around the world according to his fans. Is it because J.Prince and Baby digging in those pockets. just saying. Let me go get my weed and Lemonade and come back to see how Drake fans spin this one around
no one will spin anything on your behalf. You just demonstrated to the world that your biggest problem today is who has more money, drake or the weeknd, and you aren’t even a drake fan smh…stay down
Drake fans have the best defense strategy ever and you just proved it. Y’all good. Y’all really good. For weeks you simp ass Drake fans been going on on how he the best drake number 1 at everything but here he is at #53 so i’m simply asking how can this be. How can Drake be #53 and Weeknd #39. BTW your reply had no actual point to it but what am I suppose to expect from fans that support dead beat dad who still hasn’t responded to Pusha T. How that child support looking bwhhahahahahahahah. “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world / I was hiding the world from my kid.” Such a classic dead beat dad response.
Who’s rocking cooler Gitch today future or young thug?
All three are shady scum buckets.
she a door
he build hip hop when jigga dies
who got famous off trap first
blueprint3 killed hiphop
he killed the hater
bring back the taste makers
Kendrick is the highest paid of the new rappers. It’s official, he’s the best skill wise and commercially
Silent farts…lol. ? the name bruh. Jay is a overated old man.
Bring it home baby!! Special s/o to the OG Nas