Forbes Ranks 2015’s Top 20 Hip-Hop Money Makers

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Diddy and Jay Z top forbes list’s “Hip-Hop Money Makers”

Forbes ran it’s annual Hip-Hop Cash Kings list this morning (Sept 22). As usual the top 20 money makers was pretty similar to last year and year before…and the year before…. you get the picture. According to their calculations, Puff beat out Jigga by a couple Ms.

View list below…

The Top 20 Hip-Hop Money Makers

1. Diddy $60 million
2. Jay Z: $56 million
3. Drake: $39.5 million
4. Dr. Dre: $33 million
5. Pharrell: $32 million
6. Eminem: $31 million
7. Kanye West: $22 million
8. Wiz Khalifa: $21.5 million
9. Nicki Minaj: $21 million
10. Birdman: $18 million
11. Pitbull: $17 million
12. Lil Wayne: $15 million
13. Kendrick Lamar: $12 million
13. J. Cole: $11 million
14. Snoop Dogg: $10 million
16. Rick Ross: $9 million
17. Tech N9ne: $8.5 million
18. Ludacris: $8 million
19. T.I.: $6 million
20. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: $5.5 million

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