Google “name of celebrity” plus “net worth” and you’ll probably find a ton of blog sites that give you an idea of how much that person is worth. 

But figuring out net value isn’t an exact science: Rich people don’t know how much money they have, and “net worth” includes evaluations on all kinds of non-liquid assets, like cars, houses, and parts of companies. This was reported by The New York Times in 2018. 

For instance, Forbes’ real-time billionaires list updates the list of the world’s richest people every day based on public holdings data and ownership stakes in private businesses. 

The tracker’s findings about the wealthiest rappers are as follows:

Who is the richest rapper?

The real-time millionaires list from Forbes says that Jay-Z is the richest rapper in the world. It is thought that Jay-Z will be worth $2.5 billion by June 2023. The singer, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was born in Brooklyn. In 2019, he became the first hip-hop artist to make a million dollars. 

He owns a collection of Jean-Michel Basquiat art, his music, his venture capital firm Marcy Venture Partners, his entertainment company Roc Nation, and he works with Armand de Brignac champagne and D’Usse cognac. 

It’s been almost 30 years since the 53-year-old rapper’s first record went number one on the Billboard 200 chart. He has won 24 Grammy Awards and 14 No. 1 albums during that time.

What is Kanye West’s net worth?

Forbes’ real-time net worth tracker shows that Ye, the singer who used to be known as Kanye West, has a $400 million net worth as of June 2023. 

Ye’s comments were insulting and antisemitic, which led to Adidas ending their relationship with him. He also lost his billionaire title. Another company that broke up with the rapper was Balenciaga, along with JPMorgan Chase and Gap. 

Top 5 richest rappers

Jay-Z is the only rapper to make Forbes’ real-time list of billionaires. He had a net worth of $2.5 billion in the spring of 2023.

There are four more rich people in hip-hop: Ye, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, and Gilbert “Berner” Milam, a rapper from the Bay Area who runs Cookies, the first legal marijuana company worth $1 billion. It was made by former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg, but here is a list of the five richest rappers as of 2022:

$1,500,000,000 (October 2022).$100 million (October 2022).Ye: $500 millionIn October 2022, Berner will get $410 million.$400 million for Dr. Dre