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Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists 2022
There’s been a remix of hip-hop’s five richest acts—featuring new highs for Jay-Z, new dips for Kanye and Dre, billionaire status for Diddy and the…
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Hip-Hop's Highest-Paid Artists Of 2021
Jay-Z and Kanye West towered over the field with dueling nine-figure paydays, but hip-hop’s top acts all found ways to flourish amid a second pandemic…
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The Deal That Made Jay-Z A Billionaire
A single savvy startup investment tipped the Brooklyn-born mogul into ten-figure status.
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Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Was Almost Called...
Two alternate titles nearly adorned Halloween's most iconic song—and the bestselling album in history—amid the topsy-turvy creation of "Thriller."
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The Jay-Z Index: How To Invest Like Hov
Many of the billionaire's businesses are now tied to publicly-traded companies—meaning it's possible for anyone with a brokerage account to mimic…
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We Are All Musicians Now: The Introduction
Artists are canaries in the coal mine of modern business, experiencing seismic tech disruptions years before those in other industries. Follow the…
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Country Music's Highest-Paid Artists 2021
Fueled by the recent catalog boom, Blake Shelton claims country's cash crown. But the pandemic's effects on a live-first genre can still be seen…
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Berner's Billion-Dollar Blueprint
Thanks to his Cookies cannabis empire, Gilbert Milam, Jr. now ranks among hip-hop’s wealthiest acts. He could be the genre’s next ten-figure mogul—if he…
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Why I Walked Away From A Cushy Media Job
If you tuned in to the first installment of this newsletter, you may be wondering: Why would anyone leave one of those rare, cushy, legacy media gigs…
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Is Scooter Braun A Billionaire?
Whether you call him Justin Bieber's manager or Taylor Swift's nemesis—or simply an international entertainment mogul—it might be time to call him a…
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Ahem: I'm Moving My Writing To Substack
After a decade-plus at Forbes, this is my new home. Sign up for my thoughts on music, media and money--and serialized excerpts of my new book, "We Are…
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Claude The Cat, 2004-2023
It might seem a bit out of the ordinary to write a feline obituary. Then again, Claude was no ordinary cat.
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