Earning more than both the silver and bronze medalists (Diddy at No. 2, Jay-Z at No. 3) combined, Dr. Dre – thanks to the fact that Beats By Dre headphones are the new Blue Magic in the hood – easily outpaced every other earner on the Forbes Hip-Hop Cash Kings 2012 list. Meanwhile, Detox continues to sit on the shelf looking like that one person who sat in the corner alone because nobody wanted to talk to them during lunch period. In other words, rappers don’t get rich off mixtape sales; why should you expect any different? Here is the entire list; hopefully it’ll compel some of us to take the time off talking shit on the Internets and make our mothers proud…
1. Dr. Dre: $110 Million
2. Diddy: $45 Million
3. Jay-Z: $38 Million
4. Kanye West: $35 Million
5. Lil Wayne: $27 Million
6. Drake: $20.5 Million
7. ‘Shit: $20 Million
8. Nicki Minaj: $15.5 Million
9. Eminem: $15 Million
10. Ludacris: $12 Million
11. Pitbull: $9.5 Million
12. Rick Ross: $9 Million
12. Wiz Khalifa: $9 Million
14. SnoopLionDogg: $8.5 Million
15. 50 Cent: $7.5 Million
16. Swizz Beatz: $7 Million
16. Pharrell Williams: $7 Million
16. Young Jeezy: $7 Million
19. Mac Miller: $6.5 Million
20. Akon: $6 Million
20. Timbaland: $6 Million
20. Tech N9ne: $6 Million
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