Dr Dre has been named as the highest earning urban star of last year. The West Coast rapper/producer took the No 2 position on the Rolling Stone's list of the 50 highest earning artists of 2001. Stadium rockers U2 took the No 1 spot.

Rolling Stone revealed that Dre earned a hefty $1 million per week in 2001. The studio wizard has his own recording career as well as producing for the likes of Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Blige. Sales of Mary's Family Affair single netted Dre around $2m of his annual $52m income.

Rapper and entrepreneur Master P also had a good year. Despite earlier reports of bankruptcy, the Southern rap mogul earned $36m in 2001 from his No Limit Records enterprise and took the No 6 spot on the list.

The 2001 Rich List Top 10 looks like this:

1. U2 - $61.9m
2. Dr Dre - $51.9m
3. The Beatles - $47.9m
4. The Dave Matthews Band - $43.4m
5. Madonna - $40.8m
6. Master P - $36m
7. Carlos Santana - $32.7m
8. 'N Sync - $26.5m
9. Aerosmith - $24.2m
10. Sting - $24m

Further down the list was Eminem, who appeared at No 19 ($19.4 million), Jay-Z at No 46 ($9.3 million) and Nelly at No 49 ($8.2 million).

That's pretty cool info, thanks for posting it! :)

damn..$1 million a week..:eek:

$52 000 000 a year :eek:

Originally posted by Wickid
$52 000 000 a year :eek:

and he crys about napster & audiogalaxy

there both dead thanks to him now!!

Originally posted by evil-webby


and he crys about napster & audiogalaxy

there both dead thanks to him now!!

yesah..muhfucker:mad: from now on Im not buying anymore Dre albums :D :p

yeah, he actually is a big fucking crybaby for doing that shit... if i made 52 million a year, i'd let people take my records from the factory for free just so they could go out and set the m on fire... i'd be rich, so why would i care?

so the most succesful rapper is someone else than the most talented rapper... :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Phrantic
so the most succesful rapper is someone else than the most talented rapper... :rolleyes:

u cant really consider Dre a rapper, I mean..yeah he raps, but he doesnt write..Dre is a producer..and he got 2$million for that Mary J Blige track, and he didnt say one word, so u dont have to be a talented rapper to be a succesful urban star :D

damn dat a lotta money......he deserves it tho coz he does work hard n he is good at wot he does


laterz
xxx
:D

Originally posted by Phrantic
so the most succesful rapper is someone else than the most talented rapper... :rolleyes:

Nope. The most succesful rapper is the best business man (Dre). Talent doesn't alwayas = most succesful.

Originally posted by Bullet
u cant really consider Dre a rapper, I mean..yeah he raps, but he doesnt write.. He raps but you can't consider him a rapper? You can't consider him a lyricist, maybe?

I heard Dre actually does write some of his own stuff.

1 mil a week... Jesus.

Wonder where Puffy is? I know Master P is about half a billion.

Originally posted by Wickid
I heard Dre actually does write some of his own stuff.

Yeah, but the key word there is SOME. ;)
I know for a fact he didn't write Say What You Say.

em earned that much without even making an album last year, not bad

Yah they got the list in da Rolllin Stone Mag wit Em on The cover...Yah i really dont think dre should have been second on th elist and the worlds richest rapper.

But think bout how much em will make this year Th Eminem Show...And 8 mile And the 8 mile soundtrack not to metion all the little shit he will be doin!