Top 5 Richest Rappers (Forbes List)

The Forbes employee responsible for calculating rappers net worth and ho much they make yearly, Zack O'Malley Greenburg was on The Breakfast Club show yesterday, and he gave a breakdown of the top 5 richest men in Hip Hop for 2019, and what makes up their net worth.

Before mentioning the top 5 richest rappers in 2019, he talked about a few rappers that almost made the list. In the list of those rappers were Birdman, Eminem, and Nas. He said if Drake didn't have such a big year, Nas would have been at the number 5 spot, instead of Drake.

Anyway, below are the top 5 richest rappers in 2019 according to Forbes.


5.  Drake ($150 Million)

4.  Kanye West ($240 Million)

3.  P Diddy ($740 Million)

Sauce Money Talks about Writing Puff Daddy's 'I'll Be Missing You' Hit Song

He was Puff Daddy, then he went on to be known as P Diddy, but I think he is back to being called Puff Daddy now...or just Puff. He started as an intern at Uptown Records, with Andre Harrell. He founded Bad Boy Records in 1993 when he got fired from Uptown Records by Harrell. His first artists were Craig Mack and Biggie. At some point, he started rapping, using ghost writers. His biggest hit till date was written by Sauce Money, a rapper from Marcy, New York that was bubbling in the underground back in the mid 90s. The name of that song is I'll Be Missing You, a tribute to Biggie, and it featured Faith Evans (Biggie's widow), and R&B group, 112...released in 1997.

In a recent interview on VLAD TV, Sauce Money talked about how he came about writing one of the biggest songs in rap history. Read his words on this below...

Throwback Pic: Lil Cease, Jadakiss, Biggie, Sheek Louch, Mase, and Styles P

The Notorious B.I.G, one the greatest rappers ever died this day (March 9th) twenty years ago. Below is a picture of him, Lil Cease, Mase, and The LOX.

From left to right, you have Lil Cease, Jadakiss, Biggie, Sheek Louch, Mase, and Styles P. This was probably taken around 96-97, and they are all wearing Versace shirts...apart from Biggie. Nice.