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

[The Coochie Assassin]

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

 

[MoneyTron]

Something really wrong if 50's net worth is $7.5 million. I don't believe that and I know most net worth estimates are bullshyt.

And at some trying to shyt on Diddy for only being worth 580 million fukking dollars.

 

[Moose_Greyjoy]

I'm worth about 600 hundreds dollars

 

[Krazy]

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

Did he say he blew 100? Or did he say he could spend it and make another...I think the second option.
Furthermore network does not = what you've earned.

A lot of net worths are bull there's only limited information they have access to and this limited information is what they unfortunately use.

 

[T-K-G]

hold up lemme get this right....





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

 

[KAWS]

Something really wrong if 50's net worth is $7.5 million. I don't believe that and I know most net worth estimates are bullshyt.

And at some trying to shyt on Diddy for only being worth 580 million fukking dollars.

Yea I thought 50 made 100 mil off the Vitamin Water deal alone

 

[MoneyTron]

Yea I thought 50 made 100 mil off the Vitamin Water deal alone

Forbes had his net worth at $200+ million.

 

[Thingsfallapart]

Jay does his fair share of lying and exaggerating too. I don't who he is to call anyone out.

 

[T-K-G]

anybody gonna mark a chart showing how many bricks jay-z REALLY lost?



i dont recall the nikka ever showin any receipts

 

[DanielAlfredsson]

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

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

 

[grock2727]

They got Nas in the negatives, damn.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

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

I just copied and pasted from it, don't know why it changed "2012 earnings" to Net Worth.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Jay fans are probably the most fukking delusional fans ever... like shyt don't happen, til Jay says it does.

Jay-Z fans should be ashamed of themselves

 

[Allah]

those numbers are one year earnings lmao

 

[Awesome Wells]

They got Nas in the negatives, damn.

Damn.

BTW, those are not one year earnings. Cats think Puff made over 1/2 billion dollars in a year? LOL!! It's overall net worth.

Surprised 50 made anything last year!