Hip-Hop's Richest

Forbes - "Cash Kings 2011: Hip Hop's Top Earners"

Complex - "Jay-Z is Planking on $37 Million"

1. Jay-Z: $37 million

2. Diddy: $35 million

3. Kanye West: $16 million

4. Lil Wayne (tie): $15 million

4. Birdman (tie): $15 million

6. Eminem (tie): $14 million

6. Dr. Dre (tie): $14 million

6. Snoop Dogg (tie): $14 million

9. Akon: $13 million

10. Ludacris: $12 million

11. Wiz Khalifa (tie): $11 million

11. Drake (tie): $11 million

13. Pharrell Williams: $10 million

14. Timbaland: $7 million

15. Swizz Beatz (tie): $6.5 million

15. Nicki Minaj (tie): $6.5 million

17. Rick Ross (tie): $6 million

17. 50 Cent (tie): $6 million

17. Pitbull (tie): $6 million

20. T-Pain (tie): $5 million

20. B.o.B (tie): $5 million

From Jon Caramanica's review of Jay-Z and Kanye West's album, Watch The Throne,

NYTimes - "Two Titans Share the Seat of Power"

"This isn’t excess for excess’s sake. It’s the state of being so rich you forgot where you put all your nice things, being so rich you lost sight of which stuff is actually nice and which stuff you bought just because you’re used to buying things. Meaningful references — the abundant James Brown samples, the use of Redding and Mayfield — are all jumbled with irrelevant ones."