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Forbes released a list of the Hip-Hop industries top earners. Here they are with their worth and what has helped them earn their money.
1. Diddy/$475 Million: Bad Boy Records, Sean John and Ciroc Vodka.
2. Jay-Z/$450 Mill.: 50 Mill. records sold, New book, Roc-a-fella Clothing, Restaurant/Club ventures.
3. Dr. Dre/$125 Mill.: Producing Records, Selling Records, Beats by Dre Headphones, Ads.
4. 50 Cent/$100 Mill.: Involved in the Vitamin Water sale to Coke, Records, G-Unit Clothing.
5. Birdman/$100 Mill.: Lil' Wayne.
Forbes' Methodolgy for calbulating the worth: "In order to form the list, we followed the same procedures we use to calculate the list of
the world’s billionaires (released today) — valuing current holdings, looking at past earnings, leafing through financial documents and talking to a bevy of analysts, attorneys, managers and other industry players to find the nitty-gritty details. We considered only performers, which is why hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons isn’t on this list."