Forbes Lists Hip Hop’s Top 20 Earners

Forbes releases its list of the top 20 most earning Hip Hop artists for the last year. Here is the list below and the breakdown for the earnings at Forbes. J. Cole and Wale almost made the list by earning $5 million. 

1. Andre “Dr. Dre” Young ($110 million) 
2. Sean “Diddy” Combs ($45 million) 
3. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter ($38 million) 
4. Kanye West ($35 million) 
5. Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter ($27 million) 
6. Aubrey Drake Graham ($20.5 million) 
7. Bryan “Birdman” Williams ($20 million) 
8. Nicki Minaj ($15.5 million) 
9. Marshall “Eminem” Mathers ($15 million) 
10. Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges ($12 million) 
11. Pitbull ($9.5 million0 
12. Rick Ross ($9 million, tie) 
13. Wiz Khalifa ($9 million, tie) 
14. Snoop Lion ($8.5 million) 
15. 50 Cent ($7.5 million) 
16. Swizz Beatz ($7 million, tie) 
17. Pharrell Williams ($7 million, tie) 
18. Young Jeezy ($7 million, tie) 
19. Mac Miller ($6.5 million) 
20. Akon, Timbaland, Aaron “Tech N9ne” Yates