Near Misses
There were plenty of big names in the rap world that earned millions over the past year, but didn’t quite make the $7 million cutoff for the Cash Kings list. Among them: Timbaland, Kid Cudi, Akon, A$AP Rocky, Common, Questlove, Nas and T.I.
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Methodology
The Hip-Hop Cash Kings list tracks pretax earnings for living artists whose work is primarily classified as hip-hop or rap. To form the list, we considered income from touring, record sales, publishing, merchandise sales, endorsements and other ventures. Management, agent and attorney fees are not deducted. Earnings are calculated from June 2013 to June 2014 and based on data from Pollstar, the RIAA and Nielsen SoundScan, and from interviews with numerous managers, lawyers, music executives and some of the artists themselves.
for Jay-Z and Dre tho!
You obviously do not have a clue what you're talking about.