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 arrival of newcomer Berner.

“I’m not a numbers guy,” Kanye West once told me in an interview about his Yeezy sneakers. “These things are made to bring incalculable joy.”

West, who now goes simply by “Ye,” hasn’t been bringing much joy of late. His recent outburst of hate speech, namely a string of Anti-Semitic remarks, prompted Adidas to pull the plug on the wildly lucrative footwe…