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# Forbes Names Hip Hop’s Top Earners 2014: Dre Is #1 Thanks To Apple Beats Deals
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/forbes-names-hip-hops-top-earners-2014-dre-is-1-thanks-to-apple-beats-deals/
- Published: 2014-09-24T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-24T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: Bye bye Diddy. Move over Jay Z. Dr. Dre tops a new Forbes Hip Hop Cash Kings ranking thanks to Apple's $3.2 billion deal to buy Beats. Dre's "$620 million. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/09/forbes-names-hip-hops-top-earners-2014-dre-is-1-thanks-to-apple-beats-deals.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

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Bye bye Diddy. Move over Jay Z. Dr. Dre tops a new Forbes Hip Hop Cash Kings ranking thanks to Apple's $3.2 billion deal to buy Beats. Dre's "$620 million sum is also more than the remaining 24 names on the Hip-Hop Cash Kings list – combined," crows Forbes.

**Forbes [Hip Hop Cash Kings](http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2014/09/23/cash-kings-2014-the-worlds-highest-paid-hip-hop-acts/?ref=hypebot.com)**

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1\. Dr. Dre – $620 million  
2\. Jay Z – $60 million   
2/3\. Diddy – $60 million   
4\. Drake – $33 million  
5\. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – $32 million  
6\. Kanye West – $30 million  
7\. Birdman – $24 million  
8\. Lil Wayne – $23 million  
9\. Pharrell Williams – $22 million  
10\. Eminem – $18 million  
11\. Nicki Minaj – $14 million  
12\. Wiz Khalifa – $13 million  
13\. Pitbull – $12 million  
14\. Snoop Dogg – $10 million  
15\. Kendrick Lamar – $9 million  
16\. Ludacris – $8 million  
16\. Tech N9ne – $8 million  
16\. Swizz Beatz – $8 million  
16\. 50 Cent – $8 million  
20\. Rick Ross – $7 million  
20\. J. Cole – $7 million  
20\. DJ Khaled – $7 million  
20\. Lil Jon – $7 million  
20\. Mac Miller – $7 million