The rankings goes like this…. However their earning are largely based on sponsorship deals not concerning their music.

1. 50 Cent ($150 mil)
2. Jay-Z ($82 mil)
3. Diddy ($35 mil)
4. Kanye West ($30 mil)
5. Timbaland
6. Pharrell
7. Swizz Beats
8. Snoop Dogg
9. Dr. Dre (He sits and does nothing yet he rakes in $15 mil)
10. Ludacris
11. T.I.
11. Lil Wayne
12. Eminem
12. Common
12. Akon
13. Jermaine Dupri
13. Lil Jon
14. OutKast
14. Chamillionaire
14. The Game

Many are at the bottom of their lows lately some of them are~

• Famous producer Scott Storch has half a mil worth of taxes unpaid.
• “Suge” Knight filed for bankruptcy in 2006

  However Tupac might be laughing in his resting place~ He earned $15mil by just being dead. Knight will be kicking his ass for the beef~ Which proves a point~ Even the dead can make some cake~

Read more about the list here. And if you happen to make as much as a tinge as the hustlers in the list does then you might want to snatch their cribs that they have put up in the market for sale. Fiddy is offering his at only $18.5 mil~ Read about Hip Hop cribs for sale here.

As for the Rappers here in Malaysia~ Hey the pie is just 20 million odd people large. Now compare that to the 300 million people alone in the US of god damn A. Life cant be that bad~ We do make very decent Hip Hop tracks…. and that is what matters most.