Dr Dre, Jay Z, Drake top the World's Highest Paid Hip-Hop Acts of 2014 - Forbes

Forbes released their annual list of Highest Paid Hip Hop Acts Yesterday and without a doubt Dr Dre led the pack with a staggering $620 million from June 2013 to June 2014. Remember Apple bought his Beats by Dre for $3billion which was a big financial boost in hip-hop history. See the top ten highest paid below...

1. Dr. Dre - $620 million
2.  Jay Z (tie) - $60 million
2. Diddy (tie) - $60 million 
4. Drake - $33million
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 (tie)
16. Tech N9ne: $8 million (tie)
16. Swizz Beatz: $8 million (tie)
16. 50 Cent: $8 million (tie)
20. Rick Ross: $7 million (tie)
20. J. Cole: $7 million (tie)
20. DJ Khaled: $7 million (tie)
20. Lil Jon: $7 million (tie)
20. Mac Miller: $7 million (tie)

Dr Dre set to be hip hop's first billionaire as Apple is set to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2bn

Dr and Jimmy Lovine

Forbes is about to get updated as Super producer and rapper Dr Dre is set to become Hip Hop's first billionaire as Apple Inc. is close to sealing a multi-billion dollar deal to purchase Beats Electronics, the company he founded with music producer Jimmy Lovine in 2008. The company produces the popular Beats By Dre headphones and also runs a music streaming service, which Apple is more interested in than the headphones itself. If this happens, it will be Apple's biggest acquisition till date. ($3.2billion)

Apple wants a music-on-demand service to rival Spotify, which is a digital music service that gives people access to millions of songs.

It was announced today that the acquisition could be announced as early as next week.

The whole West Coast is going crazy with the news , everyone is excited , last night, singer Tyrese posted a video where Dr Dre proclaimed himself the first billionaire in Hip Hop. Dr Dre is currently worth $550million. See the video below ...

In the video, Tyrese said: 

"Billionaire boys club for real, homie. The Forbes list just changed.… Sh*t just changed!” 

 Dr Dre added:

 “The first billionaire in hip hop, right here from the motherf*cking West Coast!”