50 Cent: The Richest Hip-Hop Artist In 2008
Curtis Jackson, a.k.a 50 Cent, could probably sit back, relax and smoke a cigar or two for at least the rest of his days according to the recent income stats from Forbes.
The rapper has made $150million this past year. Most of that came from the sale of his shares in VitaminWater when Coca-Cola bought the company for $4.2billion. The music entrepreneur nearly doubled what his nearest hip-hop competitor, Jay-Z, brought home – $82million.
50 Cent and Jay-Z are almost in the same business mould these days – with music bringing in less and less of their yearly salaries. It is their business associations and public fame that aid their success. 50 Cent has supplemental income from his record company – G-Unit, which also has a clothing line.
One question I have is – what does one really need all that money for?
Expensive elephants?
Here is the Forbes Hip-Hop Rich list for 2008:
1. 50 Cent ($150 million)
2. Jay-Z ($82 million)
3. Diddy (P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Get over yourself etc) ($35 million)
4. Kanye West ($30 million)
5. Timbaland ($22 million)
6. Pharrell ($20 million)
7. Swizz Beats ($17 million)
8. Snoop Dogg ($16 million)
9. Dr. Dre ($15 million)
10. Ludacris ($14 million)
11. T.I. ($13 million)
11. Lil Wayne ($13 million)
12. Eminem ($12 million)
12. Common ($12 million)
12. Akon ($12 million)
13. Jermaine Dupri ($11 million)
13. Lil’ Jon ($11 million)
14. OutKast ($10 million)
14. Chamillionaire ($10 million)
14. The Game($10 million)
fiddy you rock
what about birdman
man, damn!, what about bow wow…..aint this guy rich enough?
50 is my man and i ain’t surprise he did it
he is my music icon
lil wayne should think about selling and please stop the noise
even Kanye is far better
Jay z and 50 signed huge contract to shot up their amount. Diddy is just hard work with not much records sold. He is a Good business man
i think Diddy is cool,but he’s short business and can’t keep up to the competition anymore.J rules.
cool.. 50 is real.But 50 and jay z are not business oriented like Diddy
ooooooooooooo 50 is my men NO SIZE( WIZY IS JUSTA BIGGINER ON THE RAP BUSINESS)
I love wizy. i like his style although he is just a beginner. But his albums are making allot of hit in my country Ghana and there is no day i don’t here his song. Both on radio, in the club and even his videos on television stations… He is really making its big….
Yes that is true when you come to Ghana DKNY , we all love weezy cos he is the lil wizard here the local music leader tagor luda is away….
Yo! ur fuckin right……no doubt bout that……weezy is tryyin, hes jus a biginner nd hes makin it…..most people like hes music…lolz
what the guys saying ain’t true.in Ghana is all about 50 not wizy.
how did chamillionaire make the list???
what about birdman i think he is the richest. 50 cent ain’t got nothin
fuck 50 weezy z comin for the top spot he jus leadin but soon he wil know who the best z
nice list, i love Curtis and 50cent also
the king of gangsta rap o pyroclastic flow ICE CUBE he is the best rapper of all times!!!!!!!!!
All these rappers are fake, the real one’s are 50 cent, Eminem, Ti and The game….Lil wayne need to stop rapping like a pre-school boy with rymes that make no sense.
I think T.I and Eminem are better Rappers than all these negroes. it’s hard to understand what people like about Lil Weezy when all he does is make noise. What a person is rapping has to make sense not just rap about women and money, whats up with that?
When it comes to dol, 50 cent is the man no doubt!!!
Wizy is the worst rapper now in the music industry.
Hey why are u all talking like this? this is not real money they are all drug money 50 is a fucking drug dealer so please spare me all this…………
yeah man,50 is my real dude man. we got along long time back in Atlanta and glad bout his success . keep up.visit ya 2morro
Yo 50 is da man but Ludacris , The Game ,T.i , are the best rappers alive. Weezy is da wackest rapper alive. Hey young jeezy and juelz santana are also doing well sorry for them.
Jigga man is the best of all.
YO DIS IS MUTHAFUKING SHIT FUK FIDDY HE RAPED MY GIRLFRIENDFI IM GUNNA MUTHAFUKING TEATR TEAR HIS EYES OUT WITH A SHOVEL AND THEN RIP APART HIS ASSHOLE
Am on u ‘r side beat the muthafuker.