Jay-Z
As already mentioned as hip-hop’s first billionaire, Jay-Z automatically topped this year’s list of richest rappers with a net worth of $1 billion. According to Forbes, although he is hip-hop’s first billionaire, his “lead on the rest of the pack is even larger if his entire family fortune is taken into consideration: He and wife Beyoncé are now worth a combined $1.4 billion. So much for the notion that music is a dying business.”
