2010 Forbes Hip Hop Cash Kings

1. Jay-Z – $63 Million (Crazy thing is Beyonce makes even more with 87 million)

2. Diddy – $30 Million (Take that, thake that)

3. Akon – $21 Million (Lady Gaga money must be looking nicccceee)

4. Lil Wayne – $20 Million (Don’t let Carter 3 producers see this)

5. Dr. Dre – $17 Million (Beats By Dre money?)

6. Ludacris – $16 Million (Theater of the Mind and Battles of the Sexes did their thing)

7. Snoop Dogg – $15 Million (how in the hell?)

8. Timbaland – $14 Million

9. Pharrell – $13 Million

10. Kanye West – $12 Million

Other rappers who cashed out...

Drake – $9 Million

T.I. – $ 9 Million

Swizz Beatz – $9 Million

Eminem – $8 Million (Recovery money will be counted next year)

50 Cent – $8 Million

Young Jeezy – $8 Million

Common – $7 Million

Soulja Boy – $7 Million

T-Pain – $7 Million

Lil Jon – $5 Million

Gucci Mane – $5 Million (Burrrrrrrr)

Rick Ross – $5 Million

"Jay-Z is in a league of his own right now," says Ryan Schinman, chief of Platinum Rye, the country's largest buyer of music and talent for corporations. "There are very few artists of any genre, not just hip-hop, who've created such brands for themselves."

p.s. Jay-Z came in first last year :)