Hip-Hop Cash Kings 2015: The World's Highest-Paid Rap Acts, 2. JAY Z: $56 MILLION...His 22 shows with Beyoncé additional the able mogul's basal band alongside advantageous ventures like ball aggregation Roc Nation and Armand de Brignac champagne. The appulse of his new alive service, Tidal charcoal to be seen. But behindhand of its fate, he’s taken his business bold to ahead doubtful heights (read more: Jay Z’s 12 Year Plan In Retrospect).“Don’t anguish if I address rhymes, I address checks,” Sean Combs already rapped. That advising still holds true: Diddy becoming $60 actor over the accomplished year, added than any added hip-hop act in the world.
Though he rarely performs these days, Diddy captures his latest Cash Kings acme acknowledgment to the fruits of a acceptability artificial in music: TV arrangement Revolt, accouterment band Sean John, acrid baptize cast Aquahydrate and Ciroc vodka, the endure of which brings in the aggregate of his bucks. He’s aswell said to be basic new anthology No Way Out 2, and no amount who writes the lyrics—a hot affair in hip-hop these days—one can accept the almanac will get affluence of attention.
Next on the account is a actual altered array of hip-hop mogul: Jay Z, who pulled in $56 million. He already declared himself as “the man who address checks with the duke that don’t write,” a advertence to his adroitness for basic his own verses in his head. The able mogul’s 22 shows with wife Beyoncé additional his basal band alongside ventures like ball aggregation Roc Nation and Armand de Brignac champagne, both manifestations of a new career aisle he boarded aloft 12 years ago (read added in freshly-updated Jay Z adventures Empire State of Mind).
Rounding out the top three is Drake at $39.5 million, the best Cash Kings accomplishment of his career. He played 50 dates during our scoring period, with a nightly boilerplate gross of about $1 million. Aswell added his coffers: gold-certified abruptness almanac If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and endorsements for Sprite and Nike.
“That’s appealing abundant my cold every year,” Drake already said of authoritative the FORBES list. “Other than authoritative acceptable music.”
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Making acceptable music is something Dr. Dre has been accomplishing for decades. Recently he’s spent added time authoritative acceptable money—$620 actor endure year, the accomplished anniversary payday of any artist ever, acknowledgment to Apple’s $3 billion Beats buy—which is why it’s something of a abruptness that he ranks No. 4 with $33 million, the aftereffect of abate checks from Apple. He aswell exec-produced biopic Straight Outta Compton and appear his long-awaited third album, both of which will addition his absolute on next year’s list.
Pharrell Williams circuit out the top 5 with $32 million. The “Happy” accompanist is one of the added adapted performers on the list, clocking multimillion-dollar checks from touring, music and his role as a adjudicator on The Voice. He aswell mingles his appearance faculty with an ambitious streak, as apparent by his Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream accouterment lines.
To codify the Hip-Hop Cash Kings list, we accede pretax assets from touring, almanac sales, streaming, publishing, commodity sales, endorsements and added business ventures. Management, abettor and advocate fees are not deducted. Earnings are affected from June 2014 to June 2015 and based on abstracts from Nielsen SoundScan, Pollstar, the RIAA and from interviews with managers, lawyers, admiral and a scattering of the artists themselves.
Beyond the top five, there are affluence of accustomed names on the list, including a few acclaimed rappers beneath age 30 who may anon advance into the high tier. Wiz Khalifa takes the No. 8 atom with $21.5 million, fueled by his Furious 7 affiliation “See You Again” and ceaseless touring, additional accompanying sales of his weed-themed merch. “It’s allotment of my personality,” he told FORBES. “It wasn’t acquainted at first, but again if I saw how far it was traveling … I was like, ‘Why not?’”
Kendrick Lamar acreage at No. 13 with $12 million, accent his cachet as a analytical admired with To Pimp a Butterfly, a dense, jazz-inflected almanac that denied admirers singalong hits, yet still awash 324,000 copies in its aboriginal week. He charcoal in the average of the backpack earnings-wise partly due to his selectivity if it comes to acknowledging products. Said Lamar: “All money ain’t acceptable money.”
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