Our top 10 richest rappers in Russia will provide information about such rap artists, whose annual income is in the millions.

10 Group "25/17"

9 Seryoga

8 Guf

7 Max Korzh

6 Jah Khalib

5 Noize MC

4 Oxxxymiron

3 L'One

2 Basta

1 Timati

American Forbes has published another list of the richest rappers. The first place among hip-hop stars in 2017 was again taken by the American Sean Combs, performing under the pseudonym Diddy - his fortune is estimated at $ 820 million. It is worth noting that Diddy occupies the first line for the fifth year in a row.

Take a look at the five richest rappers in the world - 2017.

1. Diddy

Net worth: $820 million

Sean Combs, 47, could soon become a billionaire. He increases his vast wealth through a lucrative deal with Diago's Ciroc, as well as a large stake in the Revolt television network and the Aquahydrate alkaline water and DeLeon tequila brands.

2. Jay-Z

Net worth: $810 million

Sprint's $200 million investment in streaming service Tidal in January raised the platform's valuation to $600 million, more than ten times what Jay Z paid for it two years ago. This helped him bypass Dr. Dre and almost overtake Diddy.

3.Dr. Dre

Net worth: $740 million

In 2014, Beats was bought by Apple for $3 billion, and the deal resulted in Dr. Dre has a huge income - now he sits and watches his wealth grow. A few days after the announcement of the sale of Beats, it became known that the superproducer bought a 1300-square-meter mansion in Los Angeles. meters for 40 million dollars, which, according to government documents, now costs almost 20% more.

4 Birdman

Net worth: $110 million

With his brother Ronald "Slim" Williams, Birdman co-owns Cash Money Records, a label with three of the world's biggest stars. music world: Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne. All three have been rumored to be leaving the label in recent years, but record deals have kept them in place for now.

5. Drake

Wealth: $90 million

Last year, his Views became the first album to reach over 1 billion plays, and on a grueling tour from Atlanta to Amsterdam, Drake made over $1 million a night. The rapper's contracts with Apple, Nike and Sprite helped him earn money even when he wasn't performing. He is only 30 years old and young enough to be the son of any of his ranking neighbors.

Music has no boundaries, so singers and rappers, making beautiful shows making huge amounts of money making clips. Probably 15 years ago, no one in our country really took rap seriously, someone didn’t hear about it at all and certainly didn’t think that it was possible to earn fantastic amounts of money on this music. But now it's a reality and rappers along with pop artists, actors, etc. are in high demand and highly paid. So it was recently updated rating the highest paid and richest rappers in the world, who earned the most in 2012.

Top 10 richest and highest paid rappers

10. Christopher Brian Bridges (

Estimated income: 13 million $

Net worth: 65 million $

He is the best selling Southern rapper of all time. Quite an authoritative person in the rap industry, he started rapping at the age of 9. Known for his initiatives and events. In 2011, together with Dosomething.ord, he participated in a campaign to collect best books world to fill the shelves of the library in New Orleans.

9. Onika Tanya Maraj ( Nicki Minaj)

Estimated income: $15 million

Net worth: 25 million $

She was discovered by Lil Wayne, after hearing several of her mixtapes, signed her to a contract on behalf of his label in August 2009. By releasing your first debut album, he immediately got to second place on the Billboard 200 chart. In addition, no one has yet managed to achieve such success that 7 songs would simultaneously be on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as Minaj did.

Estimated income: 15.5 million $

Net worth: 120 million $

Of course, he needs no introduction. His outstanding talent and ability is at the top of the charts, collecting thousands of stadiums is known to everyone. It is currently regarded as best rap er in the world. Although he is on this list in eighth place, he is the best that is and the best that will be.

7. Aubrey Drake Graham (Drake)

Estimated income: 20 million $

Net worth: 25 million $

A lot of people could learn from this guy. Drake combines the style of great shows in rap with high-quality lyrics, this is very much in demand and appreciated by the audience. Not for nothing was his first album in 2010 Thank Me Later at number one on the Billboard 200, and his second album in 2011, Take Care, is the most successful of them all.

6. Brian Williams

Estimated income: 20 million $

Net worth: 125 million $

He took the best of hip-hop and presented it in his lyrics. He took an important role in the development of the rap industry. His hits are constantly at the top, and a lot of collaborations with top-class rappers speaks for itself. More interesting fact, he was sold a Maybach Exelero.

5. lil wayne

Estimated income: 27 million $

Net worth: 95 million $

Hunger and love for the rap industry mixed with passion and it has led him to the list of the most in-demand rappers in the world.

4. Kanye West

Estimated income: 34 million $

Net worth: 90 million $

Rapper all in one, he is considered the best in the west. Received many positive positive feedback from critics, which brought commercial success. All of his five albums have received various awards, including 14 Grammys. And his fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of 2011.

3.Sean Combs

Estimated income: $40 million

Net worth: $550M

He used such pseudonyms as Puff Daddy, P Diddy and just Diddy, it was with them that it all began and through them he reached his popularity. He has acted in several films, and his song, which he wrote for the film Step In Front 2, is still one of the greatest hits. According to Forbes and Time, he is one of the most respected and influential in the world of hip-hop.

2. Jay Z

Estimated revenue: $41M

Net worth: $475M

He is a king in various variations, he brings something in his style every time. Two of his albums were just a bomb, after which he was called the king of rap. And the album written in 2001 by The Blueprint is considered a landmark and the greatest album of all time.

1. Dr. Dre

Estimated income: $110 million

Net worth: $270 million

I don't think he needs an introduction either. Super rapper and super producer. Enjoys fantastic popularity. Produced albums by such rap monsters as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Xzibit, 2Pac, Busta Rhymes and others. He is the most important figure in the popularization of the G Funk style. More than once received various Grammys, became the producer of the year.

On this occasion, we decided to tell you what interesting things happened in their lives and careers for Last year, and how many millions of dollars they managed to earn on their flow.

11. DJ Khaled

Earned: $27 million

Moderately chubby DJ Khaled has made a hefty sum this year, which has landed in his pocket through endorsement deals with Apple, Ciroc and the Weight Watchers brand. The beatmaker goes through life with a simple but highly motivating motto: "You may want a Hyundai if that's what you want, but I want a Rolls-Royce."

10. Kanye West

Earned: $27.5 million

Scandalously this year, he managed to restore Twitter, utter compliments to Donald Trump, declare his presidential ambitions and speak extremely doubtfully about slavery.

In addition, he released new album under the name Ye, which became the first record in his career that did not reach the status of "platinum". However, despite this, Kanye signed a very lucrative contract with Adidas, which brought him a lot of cash.

Earned: $30 million

Rapper Future, who recently gave a tour of the adult movie mansion, beat Kanye by several million dollars to take ninth place in the Forbes rankings.

Except musical career, the artist is enriched by contracts with the Reebok brand and the StubHub service.

Earned: $32 million

Over the past year, rapper Pitbull has managed to go on tour with popular pop artists Enrique Iglesias and. It was thanks to these tours that the artist managed to take eighth place in the ranking of the richest rappers of our time.

7. Nas

Earned: $35 million

Rap legend Nas this year invested in home security company Ring, which was bought by Amazon for $1.1 billion. In addition to investing in business, the rapper was able to make money on tour and an advertising campaign for the Hennessy alcohol brand.

6.Dr. Dre

Earned: $35 million

Rap veteran Dr. Dre still continues to receive its dividends from a successful deal with by Apple. In addition, this year he managed to work on a biopic about legendary musician Marvin Gaye and obtain the rights to use his compositions.

5. J. Cole

Earned: $35.5 million

Rapper J. Cole managed to soar so high this year thanks to the release of his new album titled KOD, which topped the music charts in April 2018. However, he earned most of his income from a world tour he called the 4 Your Eyez Only World Tour.

4. Drake

Earned: $47 million

Rapper Drake has moved ahead of his predecessors, earning nearly $50 million this year. However, this time, compared to the previous period, the artist lost his position to more enterprising colleagues. After all, he used to occupy the second line in this list.

3. Kendrick Lamar

Earned: $58 million

This year, Kendrick Lamar managed to earn the most a large sum in his career thanks to his solo tour TDE: The Championship Tour. In addition, the artist received a large pile of bucks for participating in and American Express.

2. Diddy

Earned: $64 million

For the past three years, the rapper has confidently topped the Forbes list, but this year something went wrong. In addition to his music career, Diddy capitalizes on his beverage empire, which includes Ciroc vodka, Aquahydrate alkaline water, and DeLeon tequila.

1. Jay-Z

Earned: $76.5 million

Jay-Z is the richest rapper of the year. In June last year, he had a son and a daughter, and he also released an album called 4:44, which received more than two dozen awards and brought the artist a lot of money.

The musical direction of rap is increasingly capturing today's youth. The genre that appeared in the African-American settlement in the 70s of the XX century does not leave any music lover indifferent. In Russia this direction has not been inferior to others for a long time. So who are they - the richest rappers in Russia?

10. Collective 25/17

The 25/17 band was founded by musicians from Omsk Zavyalov and Pozdnukhov (Bledny) in 2002. At first, the group preferred to work only in the strict rap genre, but then expanded their range. On the this moment their compositions are written in such directions as rap-rock, rapcore, hip-hop and even alternative rock.

Throughout the existence of the band, the guys managed to release 5 albums, 8 small album works, 6 live albums, 4 mixtapes and great amount singles.

The exact information on the financial income of one of the richest rappers in Russia is not publicly available.

9. Seryoga

Sergey Parkhomenko became famous after the well-known track called "Black Boomer".

While studying in Germany, he met the rapper Azad and recorded a track with him. When Serega returned to his homeland, he began to move along musical activity, in 2004 he was already able to appear on the M1 music channel.

After a creative break that lasted from 2012 to 2013, Seryoga returns to his work again and becomes one of the richest rappers in Russia.

Information about income in the public domain is also not distributed.

8. Rapper Guf

Aleksey Sergeevich Dolmatov, a future artist who became one of the richest rappers in Russia, joined the Rolexx group in 2000, it is in it that he becomes popular under his new nickname Guf.

In 2004, Guf, together with Princip, created a group called Centr, in which he will work until 2009.

Guf is the owner music award in the area of contemporary music channel MTV-Russia.

On December 25, 2010, an album was shown, which he wrote together with rapper Basta. The work was called "Basta / Guf".

Information about the exact income is unknown, but the average amount for one Guf concert is about 2 million rubles.

7. Rapper Korzh

Maxim Anatolyevich Korzh in 2012 releases his debut video on the single "Heaven will help us", which instantly takes off to the leading position. In the summer of the same year, Max recorded an entire album and signed a contract with Respect Production.

The 2014 tour gathers an audience of many thousands. At the same time, his name shines at the Muz-TV award in the Album of the Year nomination, where he wins.

Thus, Max Korzh begins to enter the list of the richest rappers in Russia, earning 36 million rubles a year from his work.

6. Jah Khalib

Bakhtiyar Mammadov is a Russian-speaking rapper from Kazakhstan, as well as a producer. As a child, the boy's parents sent him to music school where he learned to play the saxophone. Popularity came to him when Jah Kalib began to upload his tracks to social networks.

In 2016, his debut album "If Che, I'm Baha" is released. In 2017, Jha becomes the "Breakthrough of the Year" according to the founders of the Muz-TV award.

The annual income of one of the richest rappers in Russia is about 57.6 million rubles.

5. Noize MC

At the beginning of his career (2000) he was a member of the Levers of Machines team. However, after 2 years, he leaves the group and begins to engage in solo activities.

In 2007, he signs contracts with two popular labels, which makes Noize MC an internationally renowned artist and makes him one of the top richest rappers in Russia.

Noise MC works not only in the rap genre, but is also on the list of rock performers. He also prefers the following genres:

• experimenting with alternative music with recitative - rap-rock;
• combines heavy music with recitative - rapcore;
• and also resorts to punk and alternative rock.

Despite the fact that in 2008 the agreement with Respect Production and Universal Music Group was terminated, Noise MC continues to work in the music field and earn 72 million rubles annually.

4. Artist Oxxxymiron

He was noticed in 2008 by the German label Optik Russia, thanks to which he was able to gain popularity.

In 2011 he develops own project under the name Vagabund, and in 2017 becomes the director of the Booking Machine concert agency.

The income of the artist for the year, included in the 10 richest rappers in Russia, is 116 million rubles.

3. L'ONE

In 2005, together with Igor Pustelnik, Levan (L'ONE) created the Marselle group. Since 2012, he has been working solo. From that moment on, Marselle is officially part of the Black Star team.

In 2016, the album "Gravity" was released, which, according to the magazine "Afisha", becomes the best in Levan's discography.

Annual financial income for performances is 119 million rubles.

2. Basta

Basta has been a member of the Psycholyric group since 1997, but in 1999 it was renamed the United Caste group.

In 2002, Basta, in the company of Yuri Volosov, arrived in the capital and, with the support of Titomir Bogdanov, ended up in creative organization Gazgolder. After 5 years, Basta becomes a co-owner of the above-mentioned label.

AT solo work the artist wrote 4 albums. The rapper is engaged not only in performing, but also in acting and producing activities. Basta is a good director and TV presenter.

Basta (according to Forbes magazine) is the richest rapper in Russia, earning 189 million rubles annually.

1. Winner - Timati

In 1998, he founded a group called VIP77, at that time he was only 14 years old.

In 2004 he took part in the television music show"Star Factory 4". After 2 years, the first solo work of Black Star is released.

In addition to performing, Timati is engaged in producing. Thanks to him, Black Star Inc., the most popular domestic label in the world of rap, was formed at the moment.

Approximate for 2016 wage artist was approximately 200 million rubles, which made him one of the richest rappers in Russia.