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The Highest Paid HipHop Artists Earned $400M Altogether Within The Last Year

Posted on September 12th, 2018
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Based on reports from Forbes, it looks like after a few months-long tours, streaming, publishing, record sales, endorsement deals and more has resulted into some of the highest paid hip-hop artists crates a revenue of $44 million over the past year.

Some of the artist, including Nas, also acquired lucrative equity stakes. Nas has been snagging stakes in Silicon Valley darlings (Lyft, coinbase) and online media (Genius, Mass Appeal) for years, bringing him tons of money, including $1.1 billion sale of doorbell startup Ring to Amazon in February.

“There wasn’t a time when [rappers] didn’t think about investing. It just so happens that the world is opening up, ” says Nas.

Nas pulled in a career best $35 million in all, placing him at No. 6 on the list. Jay-Z on the other hand, earned the top spot with a $76.5 million revenue. The rapper went on tour hit in support of his album 4:44 after welcoming twins with wife Beyoncé in 2017. And this year he dropped his couple album Everything Is Love, the couple’s first joint album along with a stadium tour.

Diddy falls second to Jay with $64 million from Ciroc vodka, DeLeón tequila and Aquahydrate alkaline water. Kendrick Lamar brings in a career-best $58 million after packing arenas from Los Angeles all the way London during his solo tour “TDE: The Championship Tour.” He’s also landed deals with Nike and American Express.

Other artist who appear on the list include Drake (No. 4, $47 million), Dr. Dre (No. 6, $35 million, tie), DJ Khaled (No. 11, $27 million), Travis Scott (No. 14, $21m), Lil Uzi Vert (No. 17, $19.5m), Logic (No. 19, $17m), Russ and Meek Mill (Both at No. 20 with $15m).

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