Its crazy how Joe Budden parlayed 1 hit into being a top 10 richest rapper of all time

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He deserves it though, he was an early adopter of podcasts, I remember nikkas used to clown him for streaming on ustream back in the day then making his podcast, now everybody is doing it. Most wouldht have had the heart to keep going getting clowned like that.
 

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someone text at this foo to drop some unreleased mood muzic
 

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His podcast is independent
It was revealed he makes $12 million year on Patreon alone, probably double that when you factor in revenue from YouTube, Spotify, and his sponsors.

I'd be surprised if Joe isn't making $15 million a year minimum. Thats alot more than most rappers make, and he could easily get a $100 million deal if he wanted with that type of revenue.
 

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It was revealed he makes $12 million year on a Patreon alone, probably double that when you factor in revenue from YouTube, Spotify, and his sponsors.

I'd be surprised if Joe isn't making $15 million a year minimum. Thats alot more than most rappers make, and he could easily get a $100 million deal if he wanted with that type of revenue.

Yeah the article said upwards of 20 annually. Which is why the pod is staying independent. We don't need to make things up about a contract.
 

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Yeah the article said upwards of 20 annually. Which is why the pod is staying independent. We don't need to make things up about a contract.
Yeah i dont know anything about Joe getting a deal. I know thats what he wanted years ago, but he no longer needs a deal because he could easily make 100 mil independently over the next few years.
 

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It was revealed he makes $12 million year on Patreon alone, probably double that when you factor in revenue from YouTube, Spotify, and his sponsors.

I'd be surprised if Joe isn't making $15 million a year minimum. Thats alot more than most rappers make, and he could easily get a $100 million deal if he wanted with that type of revenue.
His network is projected to make 12 million this year. It hasn’t made it yet.

So in total they projected that the network might make 20 million. That’s if his free business almost makes as much as his paid business.

Then add, salaries, partners, and shyt. But even if that or the 20 is exaggerated (ie based on his best month ever and fantasy wishful projections) he’s making amazing bread.

But as usual with rappers, they love to exaggerate as do rap fans. Like when rappers are in Hollywood, they’ll be like “he’s making Hollywood money”. Then you find out that actors a lot bigger than them make 500k for several months of work.


With the same type of back of the envelope calculations a rapper with like 500m streams per year should make 2.5m (to the owners). And #20 on the list, had 1.7 billion dreams.

And that’s without accounting for show money
 
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