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Bugsy and Camel top Forbes list of “Hip-Hop’s Cash Kings”:
It’s been some year for Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter. In the past 12 months, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born hip-hop demigod released a platinum album, signed a 10-year, $150 million deal with concert promoter Live Nation and tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Beyoncé Knowles. Quite a record. But only good enough for a silver medal. While Jay-Z topped Forbes.com’s inaugural Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year, in 2008 he cedes the throne to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who raked in $150 million over the past 12 months–almost twice what Jay-Z made.
For the second year in a row, Sean “Diddy” Combs finished third on our list. The ageless Dapper Don of rap banked a cool $35 million from his revenue streams, including his clothing line Sean John, record label Bad Boy, premium vodka Ciroc and two reality-TV shows. Kanye West clocks in at No. 4 with $30 million. The pink-polo-sporting rapper and producer released his third solo album, Graduation, last September. After handily outselling 50 Cent’s Curtis in a head-to-head opening-week matchup, West’s album went multiplatinum and won four Grammys.Andre “Dr. Dre” Young banked $15 million even though he hasn’t had a hit in years–he still gets rich on royalties from two decades of hits. Tupac himself pulled in a handsome sum this year–about $15 million–even though he’s been dead for over 10 years. Tupac is probably having himself a last laugh from beyond the grave, knowing that his onetime friend Suge Knight isn’t cashing in on the bonanza.
Kudos to these brothas for making that paper, but geeze, Tupac made 15 Million this year?
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So glad to see brothers making that legal tender, keep it poppin’ Gentlemen!!!
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3rd!!
they both are fading out of relevancy
Yea, Yea, Yea, we already know this story..Next!
We need someone other than drug dealers to represent us. Especially, when we refer to them as Bugsy and Camel…
I’m happy for them..I still think ciroc tastes like acid
LMAO @ Encyclopedia Brown…hahhahah
GO KAYNE WITH YOUR SEXY SELF!! I WILL TAKE YOU @ #4! Honestly…I would take you not on the list at all! For real.
GO JAY!!!!
AND DIDDY YOU STILL SUCK!
50 and jay lean in for a p*****ionate kiss while diddy gets it from behind, bizniz as usual lol
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH @ MANDAH!!!
*faints from mental pic and laughter*
Kudos to these brothas for making that paper, but geeze, Tupac made 15 Million this year?
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That’s deep (Tupac made 15 Million)! Whoever handles his money knows a thing or two about holding it down and is making it stretch, whoever that is should help out Michael Vick quick!
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I’m happy for them..I still think ciroc tastes like acid
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gurl the comercial w/the high pitched squealling nykka is like acid in my ears lol
hey errybody!!!
LOl @ Mandah!
They all just *****s with money! Nothing special about it, hell I got money too! Damn!! But I ain’t in Forbes…
Hey Cutie Pie!
Still laughin @ Mandah silly *****…that was pure hilarity
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Kudos to these brothas for making that paper, but geeze, Tupac made 15 Million this year?
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That’s deep (Tupac made 15 Million)! Whoever handles his money knows a thing or two about holding it down and is making it stretch, whoever that is should help out Michael Vick quick!
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lol i got $7.67 (jk) in the bank lets see what tupac ppl can do with that… i presume i’ll be a multi millonaire come thanx giving lmao!!!
@ MANDAH!!
50 and jay lean in for a p*****ionate kiss while diddy gets it from behind, bizniz as usual lol
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DEAD!!
Get it Jay my boo and 50
I see you too Diddy
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Hey Cutie Pie!
Still laughin @ Mandah silly *****…that was pure hilarity
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lol i try i try lol
HEY MANDAH! WHATS GOOD THIS MORNING MOMMA?
GET THAT MONEY JAY!! KEEP GETTING IT! LIKE HE SAID..”YOU LITTLE F*&K I GOT MONEY STACKS BIGGER THAN YOU!!”
i can just imagine what fiddy is sayin to jay ” holla fo a dolla, do some thangs for some change” lol lemme stop
Why Jay earned only 82?
150 Milion Dollar Live Nation
31 Heart of the City Tour
10 million Def Jam premier
some millions for the 40/40 Club
….*****ody counts that!
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hay you! im good, cuttin up early too lol, how you doin?
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Why Jay earned only 82?
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what chu mean “only 82″??!?!?! shyyyyyyyyyyt i’ll take the “2″ lol
I GET MONEY MONEY I GOT
CURTIS TOLD YALL
50 and jay lean in for a p*****ionate kiss while diddy gets it from behind, bizniz as usual lol
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hey ermy!!
@ Mandah! says its monday and black folks are winning in the olympics.something i love w/ something i hate…talk about irony
…I know right! I’m hittin them up as we speak! LOL
Go Jay….I believe he will continue until he is a billionaire! As for 50 cent he is just a puppet for the business and fortunately for him he knows how to play them strings and make them do what he wants too! But congrats to them all!
lol @ mandah
50 and jay lean in for a p*****ionate kiss while diddy gets it from behind, bizniz as usual
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!
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HEY MOMMA! GOOD MORNING.
@MANDAH
I SEE YOU IN HERE ACTING UP.(LOL)
As usual, Diddy takes it from that back. It’s okay, I like that position too…
2PAC is the truth. His albums are better than what these rappers put out now a days…….even his recycled/re-packaged material.
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2PAC is the truth. His albums are better than what these rappers put out now a days…….even his recycled/re-packaged material.
Alexandra
IM NO HATER, DONT LIKE THEM CATZ ON A PERSONEL BUT LOVE THAT THEY GETTING THAT MONEY…..I LOVE GETTING MONEY TOO…..AND THEY DOING IT BIG …MUCH LOVE TO CATZ WHO GET THAT GWAP AND STACK IT!
Good job for all to all of them but if “filthy” got all that money why can’t he break his baby momma off some?
and just what thee helll was fiddy doing to earl 150 mil other than threatning ppl and eating babies?!?
HEY PEEPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Was is shaking on this mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmonday morning?
oops *earn*
can someone please tell me… how is it that tupac is still able to put out hit records??
he is still hot… even in the new millennium!
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As usual, Diddy takes it from that back. It’s okay, I like that position too…
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gurl u kepp talking like that and u gon summon m-daddy with his stories lol its to early to be hot n bothered lol!!!! and that cow is still hillarious no matter how many times i see it lol
dag my sp is soooooooooooo off today lol
Good Morning Everybody. Congrats to everyone on the hip hop list. Below are the top earning dead celebrities according to Forbes.
The Lucky 13
1. Elvis Presley
2. John Lennon
3. Charles Schulz
4. George Harrison
5. Albert Einstein
6. Andy Warhol
7. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
8. Tupac Shakur
9. Marilyn Monroe
10. Steve McQueen
11. James Brown
12. Bob Marley
13. James Dean
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Rappers are cashing in heavy on the game.Poor Melly Mel,KRS1,CoolG Rap,Sugar Hill Gang,Big Daddy Kane,Slick Rick etc.You cats missed a Niagra Falls of cash.You can tell when people of today rap for cash or the love of the art.Their pockets eventually reflect if they love what you do or you’re just going through the motions.It comes out through the music.You can hear if they like what you’re doing.So peace to anybody who does it for the love because timing is everything.The original rap set up a multi-billion dollar industry and these clowns don’t pay omage to the foundation of their economic windfalls.They can afford it they know its due but you can’t teach manhood it’s in you or it’s not.The only person I saw seriously return the favor for a break was DIDDY.He put Andre Harrell on once he got bigger than him.I know Big Daddy Kane Had Jay Z on tour with him when *****ody knew who he was.Ice cube said it best” Be true to the Gang”.If only for keeping this rap s#!$ going till I could cash in!!
A picture is worth a 1000 words – 50 is being very rude to diddy – and diddy is just taking it! Im so glad im not part of the industry – fake people are from the top to the bottom and white men in suit are controlling them all! I dont care how tough a rapper is suppose to be – they always bowdown to these white men!!! unless you go independent!
@Mandah
….LOL, you know I forgot the boys on bossip looks for opportunities…
You know, every comment I write makes me laugh cause it looks like it’s coming from the cow. You’re the only one not freaked out by it…
I’m proud of both of ‘em…stackin’ that paper…the right way!
*clapping*
gee funk – these big pocket rapper let james browns ***** get sold off to highest bidder – they made money off his beats and sample – but when they recently sold his ***** it wasnt a rapper in sight! – THEYRE ALL PUPPETS OF THE WHITE MEN WHO CONTROL THE INDUSTRY!!!!
ATTENTION: GO INDEPENDENT OR GET *****ED. PERIOD!!!
These numbers is so off.
i think bossip attracts the dumbest people in the world.ya’ll ignorant *****s need to stop hatin and start parti*****ting.50 is the man say what you say he’s doing it so is jigga the unloyal n#@@a.one dumb ***** here wrote 50 should break off his baby mama,for what.that sorry black gold digging hefer needs to get stomped for keeping his kid away from him.puff daddy is poison he ruins kids careers while he gets rich.i bet if biggie was alive he would’ve been left that *****.
LOVE YOU PAC AND THE WHOLE ***** R.I.P. MY NIGGR…..BUT HERE’S A ***** THAT BEEN DEAD FOR DANM NEAR 10 YRZ AND HEEEZ PULLING IN MILIONZ DEAD …IM LIKE WHAT THE ***** RIGHT KNOW….. DAMN!!!! RAP IZ DEAD!
get that money, I’m not mad at them boys at all
“i think bossip attracts the dumbest people in the world”
then…..
“.50 is the man say what you say he’s doing it so is jigga the unloyal n#@@a.one dumb ***** here wrote 50 should break off his baby mama,for what.that sorry black gold digging hefer needs to get stomped for keeping his kid away from him.puff daddy is poison he ruins kids careers while he gets rich.i bet if biggie was alive he would’ve been left that *****.”
wow…lol
LOL @ Steve…I was thinking the same thing…
wow 50 making money like that huh…
Jay-z everybody already know about but dang 50 beat him out?
How is 50 Cent making so much money? He doesn’t have an album that anyone is buying. His label doesn’t produce any talent. What’s his SIDE HUSTLE?
don’t let shaniqua her this!!!……ciara ain’t no dummy she latched on to a gold mine marry him and reach that status you have been trying to reach by the time you 25 like you plan
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i think bossip attracts the dumbest people in the world
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yet you found way to the site and into the blog..what does that make you?
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How is 50 Cent making so much money? He doesn’t have an album that anyone is buying. His label doesn’t produce any talent. What’s his SIDE HUSTLE
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im tellin yall, the nuykka eats babies lol, they pay him to keep they kids safe…lol jk jk jk!!!
@ persona
lets see…he has vita water, g unit clothing line, g unit website(he gets profit frm the amount of hits it receives) and I do believe he is still collecting from The Game..not to mention some other illegal business
The Game 10mill????
Puff only 35mill???
Hmmmm
congrats to them
Duddy and No Cents. Couldn’t happen to two better people…
@leavemebe 50 dont want that tranny looking ***** ciara.that relationship is all up in peoples heads made up by these gissip sites.
shout out to jay,diddy and 50(for making that paper and taking all of games)
I can’t believe puff is only made 35 million, he really needs to stop spending so much if its like that, that’s hardly enough for the lifestyle he lives. As for 50, I knew he was holdin somethin, just by the way that he acts. He’s never too flashy, and he always looks like he’s holdin a secret. There are a lot of people out there that hate him for whatever reason, I even hate his music.But dude is smart, now I’m beginning to think he just got a bad rep. for nothing, cause this dude is comin out on top, off the bat. And if you think about it, most of the stuff he speaks about, really be the truth, so like he say, you can either hate him or love him, simple.
they are counting the money that 50 made last year off of vitamin water.
jay-z’s 150 million deal isnt counted on this years forbes list because it was after the dead line. next year that 150 million will be counted plus that 44 million he is about to get from the 40/40 club and all the other ***** he has. the same thing happened to fifty last year, they didnt count his 90 million he made form vitamin water but they counted it this year.
50 cent make so much money by being a snitch. Read his history, he’s no gangsta.
50 made quite a bit on that highly publicized vitamin water contract…hence the song, “Laughin’ Straight to the Bank.”
Good for Fiddy! No wonder his baby momma so crazy.
The same way he doesn’t want us to know about his weak marriage to Beyonce….why do we know how much money he is making….he doesn’t do anything for the black community with it! I swear, yall kills me worshipping these bull***** ***** rappers!
SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT JAY HAS BEEN TAKING MY STYLE TIPS
BUGS STILL LOOKS LIKE HOT ***** LET OUT ON A SATURDAY
Obama is thumpin’ these hiphop fools all day.
Stop worshipping rappers yall.
mann this dude 50 & jay gettin that real paper while yall here hating en em….smh……like they say thats when u kno u doin sumn …wen people hating…lol
I have mad love for 50 Cent… he has done some despicable things, but he is coming from afar. He is a true example of the term “from rags to riches”; it is great to see him doing something positive. He is SEXY too!
It’s good to see these catz switch from rap to business men
That’sa good look because Fif lost his skill on the Mic and Jay “was” losing his lyrical swag
A nicca can’t rap foreva
#1 on the Forbes list but a few months ago he was fighting with his baby momma over a crib. How hood is that?
Go to panachereport.com and read up on more details of this story about Mr. Misick and his shenanigans and what not. He was sleezy from the get
THAT’S RIGHT!!!! Everyone on Jay-Z’s nuts when
A. He ain’t even a dope rapper anymore
B. He ain’t pullin’ in the most. *****’s that came out WAAAAAYYYYY after him are doing bigger than him!!!!
That ***** Jay is PHONY!!! Sellin in his personal information to the press to stay relevent…
I hope is baby mama is choking on her own vomit right now!!!!
Get @ me 50 next time your at Record 1 wit Dre and them!!!!
GO JAY!!! The rest get on my nerves, but props to them for makin that money. Ya’ll keep hatin on Jay!! IT’S WORKIN!! (NOT.)
HEAVYWEIGHT CASH!!!
LIGHTWEIGHT CL*****…….
so are they going to open up schools in south africa or the south bronx?
Let me get this straight, 50 made 150 mil last year, and broke his neck to get his ex kicked out of the house that she and his son shared. ***** this pathetic nigg*, and I hope it comes to light that he had the house burnt down and he finds his ugly ***** in jail.
I’m asian and I am just wondering. Do any black women know why Beyonce and Usher did not get together? I always thought they wer r&b royalty and that matchup would have been golden.
Fiddy doing it like that!? Definately happy for Fiddy! looking at where he came from…it’s really an inspiration. That’s whats up. Knocked Diddy azz down to the 3rd spot where he need to be!They hype him and Jay all up like they really are the main ones with all the paper, because of expensive parties, personal *****istants, private planes and blinging! Diddy what happened? You gon ‘ have to “make another Band” to try to catch up! lmao !
50 Cent made that much money? Okay, I’ve got to be like “The Man” now – rappers are making too much money!!! Sorry Jay Z but you people aren’t creating anything that’s worth so much money… Kanye is an artist so I can understand his wealth but Jay Z and 50 shouldn’t make more than a couple million dollars like the dingy Dip Set guys and all the rest of the rappers who will never ever see this kind of money.
just another case of accounting blunders and exagerrated numbers……
BTW, is that gross or net?
LMBAO!!!at the dude behind 50 with that look on his face. He like get the ***** outta here!! priceless
Mandah! says its monday and black folks are winning in the olympics.something i love w/ something i hate…talk about irony
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and just what thee helll was fiddy doing to earl 150 mil other than threatning ppl and eating babies?!?
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A WHOLE lot more than Jay-z obviously and YEARS after he got started……CATCH UP JAY LOL!!!!
A people, stop believing that man is going to be a billionair based on overly exaggerated figures. He has never done anything on his own, just knows how to take part in other peoples ideas ie The 40/40 club (only 1/3 owner), The Knicks (part owner) Def Jam AND Rocafella (someone else’s idea and money)etc and he’s really good with words and creating a facade. THAT is what is is REALLY good at
Beside, he and Beyonce spend all of their money paying the press to pay attention to them cuz white America could give a ***** less and that’s who really counts when money is involved.
Even more, if Biggie had lived, Jay-Z would still be a sidekick if that!!!!
I need somebody to explain to me how 50’s ***** gets his child support reduced but made 150 million this year…..that ***** makes no sense…I’m gonna go with this story is bull*****….50 did not make that kinds money this year last year or the year before (combined)….I am just sick of his name being mentioned in the same breathe as wealth….now I know he got a little money but he ain’t holding it like this story is trying to have us believe….
@ teI’m asian and I am just wondering. Do any black women know why Beyonce and Usher did not get together? I always thought they wer r&b royalty and that matchup would have been golden.ll me please
lmao! usher’s money, swagger, or creditability is no where near where jay’s is. No comparison.Beyonce matched herself with the total powerhouse and earning potential best suited for her lifestyle and future. Usher’s is cute..but he got a different type of swag. His money is solid, but jay’s money stacks and flows. Usher and Bey?..I can’t even see that match up. Sorry.
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@leavemebe 50 dont want that tranny looking ***** ciara.that relationship is all up in peoples heads made up by these gossip sites.
shout out to jay,diddy and 50(for making that paper and taking all of games)
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I think your right. Neither of them have ever confirmed it but have denied it and you haven’t seen 1 picture of them together in 1 year.
*****ody can dodge the papparazi like that!!!! If so, then more stars would have private relationships.
@ Doagae
I need somebody to explain to me how 50’s ***** gets his child support reduced but made 150 million this year…..that ***** makes no sense…I’m gonna go with this story is bull*****….50 did not make that kinds money this year last year or the year before (combined)….I am just sick of his name being mentioned in the same breathe as wealth….now I know he got a little money but he ain’t holding it like this story is trying to have us believe….
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Sorry but it’s true. FORBES IS A REPUTABLE SOURCE! they check earnings and reports and they are verified prior to print. He was no. 2 last year. Vitamin water boo. It’s in all the major stores and he nailed a 400 mil contract for it!..not to mention a clothing line, music label..movies..royalties…he purchased Mike Tyson’s former estate..which is huge..(Mtv Cribs)etc. You Do the math! Now as far as the child suppor reduction, i think the judge just made an example out of 50 baby mom for being a gold digger. when he landed the vitamin water deal..she was already getting 25 grand a month. she went into court for an increase after she found out about the vitamin water! -:)Bottom line.. the judge said hell nah!..and decreased her ish. that was just the judge’s decision. but as you know, they still in and out of court on that matter.. burning houses down and ish..so things may change. who the hell knows…
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they are counting the money that 50 made last year off of vitamin water.
jay-z’s 150 million deal isnt counted on this years forbes list because it was after the dead line. next year that 150 million will be counted plus that 44 million he is about to get from the 40/40 club and all the other ***** he has. the same thing happened to fifty last year, they didnt count his 90 million he made form vitamin water but they counted it this year.
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No sweetie…..
That 150 million will be paid out over 10 years which comes out to 15 million dollars a year granted that nothing happens to him in 10 year which isn’t a given PLUS that money is a budget, not personal money. That is money he gets to pay for his tours because record companies aren’t making enough money to pay for large tours and that is where the artists make their money PERIOD!!!!
get it fif. and treat my girl cici right
uhm that so called 150 deal with nation is included. that bama dont’ get all at once. yuall steady giving jay more credit than due
50 & JAY-Z BOTH HAVE PROMISING PORTFOLIOS–EXCELLENT JOB FOR THEM
DIDDY JUST NEEDS ANOTHER HIT RECORD TO BOOST HIM, BUT THAT AINT HAPPENING NOT TIME SOON KICKIN’ IT WITH THE LIKES ON NO-*****IE C*****IE
KANYE IS ONE THE MOST IN-DEMAND PRODUCERS IN THE GAME WINNING GRAMMIES YEAR AFTER YEAR, TOURING & THE CLOTHING LINE, & HIS GOOD MUSIC LABEL GETTIN’ THAT CAKE UP SO DIDDY BETTER WATCH HIS BACK YO
DRE NEED A HIT TOO BUT HE’S A BOOTYHOLE AWAY FROM BEING A COMPLETE HOMO
@ cutie
he is still hot… even in the new millennium
Becasue REAL Music never dies!!!!! That brother was on even on a bad day / his lacklustur albums are better than most of the new “rapper” platinum selling albums…. go figure
50 went 2 x plats in the U.S
youngsta still wear g-unit clothes
he still gets money from vitamin water (his drink)
Movies etc…..
stop hatin…. 50 took what the whiteman does to rappers and did it to his self….
LMAO at thease haters….
also a gunit flop is still more than most rappers sub label year long sales…
Wealthy African-Americans don’t give back to the so-called Black Community because it has long been proven time and time again that the Black Community is ungrateful. No other commniuty will take take take and then backbite the hand that feeds them. Black folks only appreciate what they have to struggle for and never appreciate what is gifted. Sad but true.
damn, that was deep.
Rappers know better than anyone that giving back is basically worthless. They give enough to charity to save face which is good business. That’s why all the rich white stars only help out black folks in Africa and Caribbean. African-Americans always fall victim to self-hate and in-fighting and destroy what is given and eachother. At a Starbucks, I overheard some white Obama supporters saying the reason he is so wonderful and why they like him is because he is “not tainted by slave blood”. I kid you not. All I could do was SMH because African-Americans, we have ways ways to go. So that’s why rich rappers are all about self-preservation, that’s why we all are if you think about it.
I am not hating or anything but these dudes seem like all the CARE about is MONEY…they have no lies to loyalty and it seems like they will do anything to keep making stacks and at the end of the day when dirt hits the top off the coffin, all that money sh*t aint gonna matter…its the reputation u leave behind and/or kids if u choose to have them…these dudes really need to look at the bigger picture
8/19/08 9:18am.Stay off the drugs.Networking is everything.There is *****ody is this world who can make it their own.You hear people who hate black people in Starbucks and you stop having faith in black unity.First of all what was your black ***** doing in Starbucks?Who are you trying to impress?You know damn well Dunkin Doughnuts coffee is just as good for $4 less.Your head aint screwed on right.Other people look out for each other that’s why there is a WHite,Indian,Chinese and Latin America.We have to get out of the “I” mind set in order to build.Don’t hate your people for what others say.Love the people who said the Obama comment.At least their keeping it real.But…I bet you if you was in a Dunkin Doughnuts you would not have heard that garbage.You was behind enemy lines(A.K.A. more for your money!).You see more Starbucks Closing than anything.Why?Who in their RIGHT mind is gonna keep spending $7-8 dollars for coffee?Stop spending money with people who don’t respect your dollar,whose customers talk down to you.P.S. change your name you don’t read enough to challenge anyone’s views!!
Can someone please explain how tupac made 15mil??
People, STOP hating on these guys! Get OFF the COMPUTER with your lame ***** comments and come up with a creative way to make your ***** outrageous money like these guys. ***** yall ***** *****ES. They gettin money all day long, go 50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The laughin all the way to the bank
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say what you want but 50 is a smart dude