Business Week Out Here Ethering Your Favorite Rappers

[John Hull]

Fresh off of Jay-Z’s new album is the track Versus, on which he chides fellow hip-hop artists and their dubious tales of extraordinary wealth: “The truth in my verses, versus, your metaphors about what your net worth is.” Like Jay-Z, we’ve long been skeptical of just how wealthy some hip-hop stars claim to be, so we created a way to separate the truly rich from the loud-mouth lyricists.
Scroll over each bar in the chart below to compare specific lyrics with data from Forbes’s “Cash Kings of Hip Hop” and “Forbes Five” reports from the same year the given artist’s wealth-related rap song was released. You’re welcome, Hova.

Jay-Z Is Right: Most Rappers Are Lying About Their Money - Businessweek

 

[big bun]

Camel has that machine behind him for real.

Sell your soul brehs...

 

[John Hull]

Nas at -6 Million

 

[Kalik]

Look at 50 vs Ross... Thought 50 was way higher. edit: Read the comments...article is flawed

 

[Harry B]

It was pretty stupid. For some people they are posting earnings from one year and lines from tr year after. Like Wiz.

50 cent they post earnings while he's referring to his networth.


And on.

 

[Yecht]

Pulling random numbers from random years out of hats. these CACs

 

[Big Boss]

terrible article

 

[prophecypro]

Its a joke article chill

 

[itsyoung!!]

So they gonna use Jay-Z whole networth for his lyrics



But only use the other rappers 1 year totals for their lyrics

 

[Shammago]

So 50 cents is really worth more than a dollar? Hollar