Caught in Forbes400 bundle in 2010 made clear that Jay-Z already had a plan for its own ten-figure fortune. For one young person who grew up, he is the individual to learn from. “Hip-hop was still striving from the start,” he said.
Within a decade, Jay-Z’s success, which conservatively amounts to $1 billion, has become apparent and is one of just a few entertainers – and the first hip-hop artist is becoming a billionaire.
Jay-Z’s continuously rising empire involves liquor, jewelry, properties, and stakes in businesses such as Uber. The trip of Brooklyn’s famous Marcy residence programs is all the more impressive considering the start. Be before being an artist, he was a drug dealer who launched his own company, Roc-A-Fella Records, in 1996. Since then he has earned 14 No. 1, 22 Grammys, and over a century pre-tax profits of $500 million.
The Rocawear clothing line which began in 1999 (sold for $204 million by the Iconix in 2007); the cognac D’Usse he operates with Bacardi; and the jazz-streaming services Tidal.
Dean of the Superproducer of some of Jay-Z’s greatest hits (“On To The Next One,” Beyoncé’s “Upgrade U”), Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” looks on Jay-Z as what others that model. “It’s larger than hip-hop… A guy who looks like us, makes it sound like us, loves us, has made us feel anything above us.
We glanced at the artist’s ratings in companies such as Armand de Brignac, applying our usual discount to private companies to measure his net worth.
His salary then was added up, which allowed a decent sum to pay for a super-star lifestyle. (He owns 100% Armand de Brignac and holds part of other companies.) In order to guarantee realistic and conservative estimates, we reviewed our statistics with a list of external experts. Okay, Jay Z is really a business, man.