JAY-Z has dethroned Diddy as Hip Hop’s richest player, according to Forbes’ 2018 List Of Hip Hop’s Wealthiest Artists. Whereas last year (and every year since the list’s inception in 2011), the Bad Boy Founder ranked first, this year Hov takes the lead with a $900 million fortune.
Aside from his music, JAY-Z’s immense wealth comes from his stakes in Roc Nation, TIDAL, and his liquor brands, Armand de Brignac champagne and D’Usse cognac.
Diddy still follows closely with $825 million, and celebrated #blackexcellence with an Instagram post that went up after the report dropped.
Dr. Dre finds himself in the No. 3 spot again, but with a net worth of $770 million, up from last year’s $740 million. It’s expected that his fortune will grow substantially in the next year, once his Apple stock is vested.
Rounding out the Forbes Five list are Drake and Eminem, tied at $100 million. Last year, Drake was behind Birdman with a $90 million fortune. Drizzy owns several estates, on top of having earned more than $250 million since 2010.
Next, while Eminem isn’t typically regarded as a mogul, he is the best selling artist (across any genre) of the 2000s, and profits from his 2017 Revival release brings him into the Top 5. He recently became the RIAA’s second-highest selling singles artist of all time.
Forbes calculates the rankings based on an analysis of candidates’ major assets, and enlists analysts, attorneys, managers and other key team members to gather the information.
See the full list here.
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King HOV for the win, win, win! Broke ass Nas is also the world’s poorest rapper. It’s the ROC!
Pwahaha. Shut the fuc up u broke ass troll!
Quit Hating. Jay Z is the richest, handsome and best rapper to ever do it! If you were a real ROC fan you would know these. Fuck you Nas broke boys.
Is that why you want to eat his butthole?
Yep! Love me some Jay dingleberries
Oh I forgot to mention, I’ve been wanting to eat Jay-Z’s asshole forever
Drake earned more than$250 million since 2010, and he is now worth $100 million? Where do they get these numbers from?
just because you make 1 million doesn’t mean you keep 1 million. taxes , business expenses overhead and lifestyle. whenever you see someone making 10 million think about the private jet that cost 50k to fly from LA to NYC and the 5 homes with mortgages of 500k per month combined, staff wardrobe, cars etc. 10 milion earned can mean 1 million saved by the end of the year
Forbes numbers are dubious at best. I really doubt that Jay Z has more money than Dr. Dre and his Apple hook up. Dr. Dre’s Apple money/cash flow is good as it gets while Jay-Z’s is mostly based off of companies that aren’t really making money(Tidal, Roc Nation but alcohol companies he did invest in are doing well). Tidal is always teeter tottering on Bankruptcy and I doubt when it does go Bankrupt that anyone will pay any significant amounts for whatever assets it has.
You do know every concert goes thru to nation right? And you do know doc dres deal was a one time thing right? Meaning he doesn’t get paid off beats anymore so his income is at stand still in that area. Man get wise and learn something
50 cent so mad rite now lmao
Lls 50 can’t be filing for bankruptcy and be forbes hip hops wealthiest at the same time. Thats backwards hustling
keeps on winning, he also won as the most boring rapper of the world
HOVA IS DEF ROCKING DA NATION
Big up to jayz and is new ?