Forbes have announced its annual list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings, rap’s top earners over the past 12 months.
This year’s Top Five Highest-Paid Hip-Hop Cash Kings are:
1. Diddy: $60 million
2. Jay Z: $56 million
3. Drake: $39.5 million
4. Dr. Dre: $33 million
5. Pharrell: $32 million
Elsewhere in the list, Eminem narrowly missed out on the top 5, Nicki Minaj was the only female rap act to make the top 20, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis nearly missed the cut altogether after falling from $32m of earnings in 2014 to $5.5m this year. To calculate the rankings, Forbes considers pretax income from touring, record sales, streaming, publishing, merchandise sales, endorsements, and other business ventures from June 2014 to June 2015.
The full list of the World’s Highest Paid Hip-Hop Acts in 2015 can be viewed here. We ask that you please include a link to the Forbes website in any online coverage.
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