The Forbes Five: Hip-Hop's Wealthiest Artists 2014 [Crap "Music" Pays Big $ for the Top 1%]

Forbes ^ | 4/16/14 | Zack O'Malley

[SoFloFreeper]

ack in 2007, Sean “Diddy” Combs teamed with Jay Z and 50 Cent to create a song titled “I Get Money: Forbes 1-2-3 Billion Dollar Remix.” Less than a decade later, rappers are closing in on ten-figure fortunes, and he’s the nearest of the bunch.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yes, they have other business ventures, too...you can only put so much CRAP "music" out and get the gangstas to buy it....here is the list of Obama supporters who are creating bad music and making millions, along with their worth

#5: 50 Cent. Worth $140,000,000

#4: Birdman. Worth $160,000,000

#3: Jay-Z. Worth $520,000,000 (yes, half a billion)

#2: Dr. Dre. Worth $550,000,000

#1: Diddy. Worth $700,000,000

Someone tell me how racist this nation is again. I'd love to laugh in their face.

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A “Few” people are consuming this bilge.

And some wonder why society is in the toilet.

[Tzimisce]

It pays well to sit around complaining about how dark skin holds you back in America. :)

[SoFloFreeper]

Let’s compare, shall we?

According to celebritynetworth.com:

Rush Limbaugh is worth $370,000,000.

Dick Cheney is worth $90,000,000.

Sean Hannity is worth $35,000,000.

Sarah Palin is worth $12,000,000.

Newt Gingrich is worth $7,000,000.

A million dollars is a lot of money...but in my opinion, any ONE of the people above are worth more than all five of the Forbes Five Thugs combined.

[Olog-hai]

If “gangstaz” were the sole consumers of this “music”, there wouldn’t be any money in it. Without the white buyers (in this and other countries; this includes concerts, which always make the “artists” more money than the records do), the genre would be underground, in a literal sense.

[Huskrrrr]

“I blame it as the number one cause of most of what’s wrong with America the past 25 years.”

I’ve pretty much gone with the flow in the music industry: metal, new wave, old wave, etc. But I could never relate to rap, still can’t.

[Farmer Dean]

Somehow a large number of white kids have embraced the thug culture.The people responsible for this should be in prison.

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I blame it as the number one cause of most of what’s wrong with America the past 25 years.

No understatement there. Pop "music" is the very tip of the spear of the cultural attack by the Left.

[WayneS]

Maybe that’s why that other “rapper” named Johnson cut off his own penis and jumped off a building a few days ago...

...he found out he wasn’t on “the list”.

[dfwgator]

Somehow a large number of white kids have embraced the thug culture.The people responsible for this should be in prison.

Blame white record execs.....producing rap music is cheap, and highly profitable.....You actually have to pay for real musicians.

[napscoordinator]

Capitalism works. Always made me wonder about those that cry about it not working. It is the best system in the World. Not many places in the World where you can become a multi-millionaire with a high school diploma or even less.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The media blitz of the last few years have produced an egalitarian-(trash!)-mind set.

[CrazyIvan]

Considering how many consumers of all colors of this garbage are parasites, we taxpayers are making these talentless thugs rich.

[dfwgator]

The problem is that now rap has poisoned pop music.

Nothing worse than hearing a song on the radio, that starts out pretty good, only to have some rap part in the middle.

[Wordkraft]

Performance by the untalented for an audience of the uncivilized.

[MinuteGal]

Most Americans don't care for musical music, they like just plain noise with a raucous beat.

Leni

[M Kehoe]

I like Frank Sinatra. Go does Gonzo.

That doesn't count, does it?

5.56mm

[Gay State Conservative]

I haven't the slightest problem with Dr Ben Carson...or Bill Cosby...or Oprah...being worth half a billion (or more).To the best of my knowledge none of *them* have ever been indicted for attempted murder.But “Jay-Z”?