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World’s Highest-Paid Hip Hop Artists

Forbes like to keep tabs on how much the 1% earn. Here’s the top five from their annual list of the richest hip hop acts in this part of the galaxy.

  1. Diddy ($62 million)
  2. Jay Z ($53.5 million)
  3. Dr. Dre ($41 million)
  4. Drake ($38.5 million)
  5. Wiz Khalifa ($24 million)

What’s that? Where’s Kanye you ask? Didn’t even make the Top 10. The full list can be found here.

Alan Cross

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