Now According to Forbes Dre earned $110 Million dollars last year. $100 Million came from HTC paying $300 Million to buy a 51% stake into his “Beatz” headphone company. Dre being the great business man that he is then turned around and bought half of the stock back this summer.

With Dr. Dre topping the list of Hip Hop’s Biggest Earners it’s no wonder why he  still hasn’t finished his long-awaited “Detox” album.

“I understand why Dre didn’t finish “Detox,” former Def Jam president Kevin Liles said with a laugh. “It’s called Beats.”

Dre like a few other hip-hop heavyweights make most of their money outside of music.

Diddy although none of his artists will NEVER, EVER, EVER make the list came in second with $45 million thanks to his share of profits from Ciroc vodka of course.  If he keeps coming up with all of these splendid flavors like Peach he will be a Billionaire soon.  Ciroc is so popular that it suffered from knock off  production like Louis bags.  Earlier in the year “Watermelon” flavored Ciroc surfaced on the street.. If you run into a bottle you should know that you are drinking at your own risk. Diddy has not made that flavor yet. 

The man who is married to the baddest chick in the game, Jay-Z, who was last year’s top earner, now comes in third this year. Although he is still a cash King he’s suffered from quite a few financial losses this year. His empire is actually crumbling(read about that here.)

Jay only pulled in $38 million last year. Half of that came from his music and the other half from outside ventures like his ownership stake in the Nets and a deal with Duracell.

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The Carter  Family was photo’d   — (Of course without their permisson) yesterday  on a yacht, after spending the weekend in Philly… Jay-Z put together a “Made In America” festival, that showcased artists ranging from De’Angelo to Drake…. Even Obama showed up (From video) to show his support for Jay-Z . The show was very successful with fans from around the country enjoying the festivities..

Yesterday Jay-Z , Beyonce and Baby Blue was spotted  in the South of France in true royal style , relaxing on the Mediterranean  sea, celebrating Beyonce’s  31^st Bday (That was one of her greatest albums) .

Awww .. Look At Baby Blue, she’s  just Precious .. Growing up right before our eyes …

The happy couple enjoying each others company… I love to see people who’ve been together for years,  still enjoying one other . Beyonce still looks Fab without make -up .

Beyonce with her hair flowing  in the wind, soaking up the air,  drinking  a little bubbly  on her Birthday .. – The Life

Jay Z is very protective and affectionate with his Queen. He escorts her into th awaiting limo before they drive off after the show.

Beyonce did not even acknowledge Kim until after the concert was already over and politely said hello as she passed her by.

Beyonce’s fans, the Beehive was outraged a few months ago when photos surfaced of Kim and Beyonce hanging out together. Fans were worried that Bey might befriend Kim.   Bey continued to be polite to Kim even after. She even allowed Kim and Kanye to sit next to her and Jay Z at the BET Awards.  

But after Kim’s latest stunt posting a photo of herself on Twitter hoping to look like the late singer Aaliyah, Beyonce has completely distanced herself from the trashy reality star. Hanging with Kim is not a good look for the singer who is reveled as a role model to many teen girls. 

A source reveals both Jay Z and Beyonce feel as though Kim is completely being disrespectful and trying to take advantage of the community’s love for Aaliyah as the rapper Drake prepares to release Aaliyah’s posthumous album. 

Jay Z and his old business partner Damon Dash were both very close to Aaliyah. It’s well known that Aaliyah briefly dated Jay Z before getting into a relationship with Dash. 

The Aaliyah stunt comes a week behind Kardashian doing a photoshoot with big kinky wavy hair in an attempt to channel Diana Ross. 

Kim is going through an identity crisis. Her boyfriend Kanye has been trying to help her through it, even by instructing her to get rid of her clothes. 

I’m sure it was easier back in his Hustling days In the Marcy Projects located in Brooklyn New York , when his Bottom-line was  what baking soda brand is best  to mix with his product ( All you Hustlers know what I mean) ,

The Hip-Hop Icon, Net Worth currently at  $460 million — What some may not know is Net Worth doesn’t mean the actual  dollars a person has in a bank account.. Just the total of assets minus liabilities  that one’s name is involved with …  So with that being said

Everyone knows the story of how Jay-Z came up from Marcy projects , imprinting himself as a Hip-Hop legend, and a Brand name with a clothing-line, a record company, club chains, and part ownership of a NBA team.. Which all resulted in him becoming a multi-Millionaire…

JAY Z AND BLUE IVY GO FOR A HELICOPTER RIDE (PHOTOS)

 From Jay-Z’s rap lyrics On Kanye’s -Diamonds  he spoke =

I’m not a businessman I’m a Businessman   

– [Businesses hasn’t been doing too well lately]..

It started at the beginning of this year, when his wife Beyoncé gave birth to the beautiful Blue Ivy… News broke weeks later, Jay-Z’s  once lucrative clothing brand Roc-A-Wear laid off half of its employees .

Cuts were made to the men and boys division of the hip hop apparel line him and Damon Dash, founded in 1999, citing ‘economic reasons’ as the cause… Jay-Z sold the brand back in 2007, but remains very involved in the marketing aspect of it …A insider was quoted saying–

‘Jay-Z doesn’t do anything without getting paid a lot of money — a lot more than Roca wear is generating”

Since the news broke, Jay-Z has become more involved , by creating the first television commercial …And planning to  include a Roc -A-Wear store in the new Barclays Arena, located in Brooklyn New York.

After the news of the Roc-A-Wear layoff,– Shortly the—opening or his New York operated 40/40 club , was immediately closed due to a health code violation . The club was issued 69 violation points .. A source from the health department was quoted — “If you have a walk-in place with food like this, you put a hell of a lot of people at risk,”– “A night of dinner and dancing should not include the risk of contracting food-borne illness.” – Last week more bad news for the club chain, Jay-z file suit against his former Chef , Mike Shand for a wing sauce, he created exclusively for the 40/40 club…A source states that the wings are one for the main attractions to the club, losing it would be detrimental to the bottom –line.

Then there is his ownership in the NETS —  Two weeks ago, The New York times broke news about Jay owning ONLY  0.06 which is one-fifth of 1%  resulting in only $216,000 .…Shocked me.. .. He only invested 1 million years ago towards the NETS over 300 million dollars buy-off.   – Reports claims that Jay-Z didn’t want the public to know, what little ownership he has in the team . Since the news broke Jay-Z’s management team has been on a bactrack, including Jay-Z  denying to do an interview discussing the opening of the new Barclays Arena next month..The decline for an interview may result in a lost of space for his planned Roc –A-Wear store in the arena…

Jay -Z with NewComer to his record company Roc Nations Rita Ora

The verdict is still out on his involvement with the Roc-Nation record label.. With artists like Rihanna and Rita Ora, who seems to be making more headlines than actual record sales….The future may not be too bright…

But With a wife like Beyonce and friends  like  Warren Buffet I’m sure Jay-Z won’t be in the employee line anytime soon.. Plus his music remains a profitable business … Still being one of the top-selling artists today…

Jay-Z having Dinner with investor Warren Buffet

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According to the Huffington Post, Beyonce is preparing to grace the stage at her hubby Jay-Z’s Made In America Festival for a “top-secret” performance.

“Beyonce will hit the stage in a surprise performance at her hubby’s festival next weekend in [Pennsylvania]. The performance is top-secret but it will be filmed for Jay’s documentary about the event. It’s going to be epic.”

Philly is currently gearing up to host an estimated 100,000 fans, which will mark the largest crowd Beyonce will perform for since giving birth to Blue Ivy Carter in January.

Besides Beyonce, Jay-Z enlisted the talents of artists like Pearl Jam, Run DMC, Rita Ora, Calvin Harris, AfroJack, and many more for the lineup of his two-day festival.

Jay-Z’s Made In America takes place September 1-2 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Of course with all of those sweet delights guests are more than likely to work up an appetite while they watch their favorite sport or chill to the sounds of Rihanna blaring through the speakers..  To help revamp the menu at the all new, luxurious 40/40 club Jay Z hired his former personal chef, Mike Shand to create a new menu for the clubs new $10 million dollar atmosphere opening back In January. 

Apparently the chef’s menu which featured 40/40 Wings was not cohesive with the ambiance of the new caramel brown and gold  reflective surfaces of the entertainers Manhattan hot spot. 

According to Jay-Z and partner Juan Perez, since then, Shand has bailed on his promise to elevate the menu and “failed to perform on significant aspects.”

The sub-par food at the “urban chic” sports bar apparently  scared away good patrons, “costing the club lost profits, loss of good will [and] alienation of clientele.” (meaning only urban people were visiting)

With financial giants like Warren Buffet showing up to the grand opening, menu items like the $16 40/40 nachos that comes with chicken or beer failed  to cater to an upscale crowd. YET, Jay Z is upset that the chef won’t hand over his secret chicken recipe. 

According to  Page Six it’s all about the sauce. “One source tells us that chef Mike Shand left “taking the recipes to popular menu items such as chicken wings, forcing the club to sue.” But we’re told Shand happily handed over all his recipes — except his spice mix.

Shand’s lawyer Vik Pawar told us, “The spice-mix recipe that Mike developed is his own recipe. 40/40 terminated him, then had the audacity to sue him for his recipes. He gave them all apart from this spice mix because it is his own. Mike had a wonderful relationship with Jay-Z and Beyonce for many years.”

Really Jay???? Black people and their chicken…  But we want to get mad about  the stereotypes…  

UPDATED: The lawsuit has been dropped.

More photos inside the new 40/40 Club, which looks exactly like the one he had in Vegas at the Palazzo hotel, minus the slot machines.. The hotel ended up buying Jay Z out because they didn’t like all the “urban” traffic it was attracting.. Although the club was absolutely magnificent in every way, it mostly seemed to attract the “ghetto crowd.”

Video profile “The 40/40 Life”:

The 40/40 Club is located at 6 West 25th Street (at Broadway) and is open Daily from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Rick Ross pulled off a major feat recently by getting both Jay Z and Dr. Dre on a track with him.  Just getting one on a track with you is a big feat itself and speaks directly to the caliber of rapper you are.

On his most recent trip to Washington D.C. Ross told MTV that  3 Kings is  ”the biggest collaboration in hip-hop.” ever. ”I got on the phone with Dre and we just talkin’ about collaborating and he was gonna come down to Miami for the first time to record with me in my element, in my zone,” Rozay said of the initial seed that was planted for “3 Kings.”

The Boss talked Dre into coming to Miami for his birthday..  The first night there Ross was excited and the two turned out 5 tracks together in the studio.

“He came to Miami. I walked in the studio, I seen big homey, I turnt up,” Ross recalled. “First night in the studio we went and did five records.”

With his Dr. Dre sessions already in the can, Ross called his big homey at Def Jam, Jay Z  to ask  him to put the finishing touches on the record.

“Jay-Z, that’s my big homey man and from day one anything I’ve ever asked O.G. for he always came through for me, so it’s vice-versa,” he said. “He got a gangsta right here for life.” ”Three Kings” will appear on  Ross’ upcoming God Forgives, I Don’t album.  Unknown to many this is not the first song Jay appeared on with Ross.

“Me and Jay had another record already recorded,” Ricky confirmed. “I’m pretty sure I’m one of the only people that could’ve called for another verse, before I put out the other record and get it done. I called him and let him know, ‘Man it’s the one.’

“We cooked up a masterpiece,” he continued. “This is a big joint right here.”

I would have expected Lil Wayne to pull something off like this..  The boss’s has remarkable skills in making enjoyable rap songs.  It was just a few years ago when it was learned that Ross was a correctional officer who made up his drug dealing past..  Fellow rapper 50 Cent attempted to Ja Rule Ross and it seemed like it was going to work at first. One thing they always tell you is to keep putting out good work and people will be forced to love you.

Rick Ross is a prime exemplification of someone who has built a sold career out of pure talent. It’s nice to see Hip Hop working together to put out good music instead of unnecessary beefing.

LISTEN TO 3 KINGS BELOW via Flex

“I had the grill in 88, ya’ll ninjas is late!

Excuse Me Miss Long

Although Jay Z is married to the baddest chick in the game, he still doesn’t have a problem letting a chick know that he has that fire for her.   Nia Long who stole hearts playing parts in Friday and Love Jones recently revealed that while she was at an industry party Jay Z gave her one of the biggest compliments ever labeling her as the hottest chick in the acting game. 

“I saw him at a party and I complimented him on his long run in music,” Long told Essence magazine.

“But he turned it around and asked me: ‘How does it feel to be every boy from the hood’s fantasy girlfriend for 20 years?’ It made me laugh, I hadn’t really thought about it.”

Jay is dope.. That ninja spits fresh lines even when it’s not going on wax.  Although she is currently unmarried and has two kids out of wedlock I know Nia was feeling like “Man, You can’t tell me nothing (kanye voice) after that.  That’s the Trump of Compliments seeing as to who it came from and who he is married to. 

By the way, in case you didn’t know.. I’m the hottest chick in the blogging game.

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Less than 5-months old with several stamps on her passport, lil Blue Ivy Carter is already out here tryna function. Now she can add dual citzenship to her accolades.

Beyonce and Jay Z’s baby girl has been named as an honorary citizen of the Island of Hvar in Croatia.  The same place where the superstar couple vacationed when it was first learned that Bey Bey was with child.  Photos of B in a white bikini on a sandy beach surfaced shortly thereafter .

Croatia is also the same magical island that was the inspiration for Blue Ivy’s name: 

“We woke up this morning, took a nice little walk, passed by this beautiful blue tree,” a pregnant Beyonce shared while pointing out the unusual-hued plant covering the tree’s bark in a personal video clip released on her blog this spring. “I think it’s Blue Ivy, which would be quite appropriate!”

Since that clip was posted in April,  tourism in Hvar has substantially increased and the island was even named as Lonely Planet’s fifth best vacation destination in 2012.  The island wants to thank the prestigious couple for putting Croatia on the map.

“The story of the origin of the name of your daughter has brought enormous media attention and therefore tourist promotion to the town and island of Hvar,” Major Pjerino Bebic wrote in a letter to the family. “Because of this, I have decided to confer on your daughter the status of honourary citizen of the town of Hvar.”

Mayor Bebic also invited the couple to return to Hvar, which is considered to be the “sunniest town in Croatia.”

Earlier this month, Beyonce, 30, excerpted a passage from author Rebecca Solnit’s 2005 book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. The recurring theme, blue, was interpreted as an homage to Blue Ivy.

Blue Ivy lives that good, good life! 

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Less than 5-months old with several stamps on her passport, lil Blue Ivy Carter is already out here tryna function. Now she can add dual citzenship to her accolades.

Beyonce and Jay Z’s baby girl has been named as an honorary citizen of the Island of Hvar in Croatia.  The same place where the superstar couple vacationed when it was first learned that Bey Bey was with child.  Photos of B in a white bikini on a sandy beach surfaced shortly thereafter .

Croatia is also the same magical island that was the inspiration for Blue Ivy’s name: 

“We woke up this morning, took a nice little walk, passed by this beautiful blue tree,” a pregnant Beyonce shared while pointing out the unusual-hued plant covering the tree’s bark in a personal video clip released on her blog this spring. “I think it’s Blue Ivy, which would be quite appropriate!”

Since that clip was posted in April,  tourism in Hvar has substantially increased and the island was even named as Lonely Planet’s fifth best vacation destination in 2012.  The island wants to thank the prestigious couple for putting Croatia on the map.

“The story of the origin of the name of your daughter has brought enormous media attention and therefore tourist promotion to the town and island of Hvar,” Major Pjerino Bebic wrote in a letter to the family. “Because of this, I have decided to confer on your daughter the status of honourary citizen of the town of Hvar.”

Mayor Bebic also invited the couple to return to Hvar, which is considered to be the “sunniest town in Croatia.”

Earlier this month, Beyonce, 30, excerpted a passage from author Rebecca Solnit’s 2005 book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. The recurring theme, blue, was interpreted as an homage to Blue Ivy.

Blue Ivy lives that good, good life! 

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