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

[Canada Goose]

Damn Ross made 9 milli in a year and he never went plat

Crab meats


He pretty much makes the same amount as Pitbull who is one of the most popular pop artists in music at the moment.

 

[dBoyFresh*212]

Yall realize this shyt NOW? You serious?

And that list you posted is bullshyt bruh Forbes said 50 made 200+ mill

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

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


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 annual “Cash Kings of Hip Hop” report from the same year the given artist’s net worth-related rap song was released. You’re welcome, Hova.


Some highlights of the graph

Pitbull
"I see the future but live for the moment, make sense don't it. Now make dollars, I mean billions, I'm a genius, I mean brilliant"
Song: Feel This Moment, 2013
Actual net worth: $9.5 million

Nicki Minaj
"I'm in Saint Tropez on a big boat, go my way to make a billi like a big goat"
Song: Up In Flames, 2013
Actual net worth: $15.5 million

Diddy
"Dippin’ in the ‘gatti, billboards in Tokyo. Worth about a billion and still run the city"
Song: Shot Caller Remix, 2013
Actual net worth: $580 million

Rick Ross
"I'm a John Gotti, got my own army. Worth fifty million and it's all on me"
Song: All Birds, 2012
Actual net worth: $9 million

Wiz Khalifa
"I'm talking vacation out and resorting, I made eleven million without any endorsements"
Song: Rowland, 2012
Actual net worth: $9 million

50 Cent
"I blow a hundred million, make another hundred mill"
Song: I'm On It, 2012
Actual net worth: $7.5 million


Yeah so uh who wants to be the first to say they got some of things wrong

BusinessWeek usually has good sources, how is 50 cent worth 9.5? Are they saying 50 cent made 9.5 last year.

50 cent net cant be 9.5

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read the link...

the article is mixing net worth and annual earnings to play with rappers lyrics

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Damn Ross made 9 milli in a year and he never went plat

Crab meats


He pretty much makes the same amount as Pitbull who is one of the most popular pop artists in music at the moment.

shyt, wiz khalifa is the one winning, dude pushing dud albums and no endorsements and still earning as much as pitbull and Ross who are literally whoring themselves all over the place

Diddy man how can you hate on that, I'm worth -$60k right about now...lemme hold sumthin, I'll walk to Brooklyn

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

yall reading the article?

 

[Champion]

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

hold up lemme get this right....





nikkas really believed everything that rappers said until Jay-z "exposed" them

Jay-Z: The Sky is blue

Random jigga stan on the coli : So we ain't gon talk about how Jay showed the world the sky is blue?

 

[diggy]

someone actually wrote an article for this in business week


the fukk

 

[Still FloW]

Reading is fundamental breh. They say he earned $7.5 mil in 2012, not that this is his net worth.

Idiots i tell you lol...

 

[DEAD7]

They got Nas in the negatives, damn.

 

[ISO]

Nas networth is estimated between $17-35M on the net, despite the tax issues/divorce/failed business

 

[Mr.Black]

is nikkas really trying to clown diddy for ONLY having a net worth of 580 million motherfukking dollars??

most nikkas could live 100 times and make twice their current salary and wouldnt see 10% of that

 

[drugxglory]

Atleast them nikkaz getting money

 

[blackzeus]

Reading is fundamental breh. They say he earned $7.5 mil in 2012, not that this is his net worth.

Logically talking to haters

 

[REdefinition]

List makes no sense. For some artists it lists their net worth then for others they list what they made for one year only. I think the amateur writer that compiled this list doesn't know the difference. No way Luda made 10 million last year...doing what??? More than likely that's his total net worth.