You ever wonder how much these music cats make, or exactly where does the money come from outside of record sales and concerts? Well here ya go, a list of the top musicians in the world.
The World’s Richest Musicians
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Forbes Predicts That Puffy Will Be First Hop Hop Billionaire!!!
Forbes magazine released its Forbes 400 list of America’s richest citizens, but no Hip Hop moguls managed to make the cut. Analyzing the race to become Hip Hop’s first billionaire, the publication predicts that Sean “Diddy” Combs will be the first to cross the billi mark with his current estimated net worth of $500 million.
The magazine explains that Diddy’s vodka deal with Diageo as an owner of Ciroc could increase his net worth. The Bad Boy honcho rakes in annual profits from the growing brand and could get a large payout if it’s sold. Additionally, his stakes in Sean John and Enyce as well as marketing firm Blue Flame and Bad Boy could put him ahead of Jay-Z as Hip Hop’s richest figure.
Birdman disagreed, proclaiming that Young Money Cash Money will earn an ninth zero before anyone else. “I think Young Money Cash Money would be the first billion-dollar brand in hip-hop,” he wrote in an email. “We strong and growing every day as a brand and fast. Within the next few years we will be billionaires.”
Other contenders include Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Head over to Forbes.com to read the full story
8 Signs Of A Successful Entrepreneur(Swipe)
By Tina WellsI’ve written several columns on what it takes to establish a successful business. But more important than the business is the entrepreneur who establishes it. So what are those must-have qualities of successful entrepreneurs? Read on and find out.
1. You must have vision
Most of the successful entrepreneurs I know have great vision. Ideas are great, but what’s the process to making them a reality? A clear vision is a must.
2. Great communication skills.
Once you’ve established what you’re trying to do, the next logical step is putting the team together that will help you. You must be great at communicating that vision to the people who support you. There are many tools available to help you figure out how best to communicate with your team based on personality types and working styles.
3. Keep and make deadline.
Entrepreneurs get things done—period. There are no excuses and deadlines always matter. If you say you’re going to do something by a certain date, just do it. True entrepreneurs don’t ever make excuses or let obstacles stand in their way.
4 Ways Black College Grads Ruin Good Job Opportunities (Swipe)
As the National Urban League unveiled its 12-point plan for dealing with joblessness in urban communities of color, the organization also highlighted one of the hardest-hit demographics among the unemployed — young, black adults.
While the root causes of unemployment many, unfortunately we sometimes shoot ourselves in the foot and hurt our own chances at landing that next solid job.
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Recession = Increase In Number of Millionaires???(Swipe)
Even with hard economic times and disasters all over the world…the number of U.S. millionaires is on the rise. According to the latest numbers, 9% of Americans are millionaires in 2011…
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The League Of Black Women 2011 Global Strategic Leadership Conference
The conference is April 17-20, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. I’d heard about this before but forgot to look into it further. Some of you She-Moguls may want to check this out. It’s the real deal. Click the image for the full info…
‘Love & Hip-Hop’ Executive Producer Talks To Black Enterprise(Swipe)
By Janel Martinez
If you’ve heard of Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Maxwell or 50 Cent, then you’ve likely heard of Mona Scott-Young (or are at least familiar with her stellar career management skills). The former president and co-founder of Violator Management spent nearly two decades in partnership with longtime co-founder, Chris Lighty, but set sail on her own, establishing Monami Entertainment LLC in 2008. “I’d been with Violator for a very long time taking the company, I think, to great heights, but found that there were so many other areas I wanted to explore and dive into,” says Scott-Young. Starting a boutique entertainment company that spans beyond artist management to television and film production was just the beginning. Her hard work and start-up investment of just less than $1 million is paying off with Monami Entertainment producing VH1′s latest reality TV hit Love & Hip Hop, a show shadowing the lives of Chrissy Lampkin, fiancée of rapper Jim Jones; former G-Unit rapper Olivia; ex-wife of Swizz Beats, Mashonda; rapper Fabolous’ girlfriend, Emily Bustamante, and up-and-coming recording artist, Somaya Reece.
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Prince Donates $1 Million to Harlem Children’s Zone(Swipe)
His Purpleness recently held a press conference to announce that he would be donating $1 Million to Harlem’s Children Zone and $250,000 each to The Uptown Dance Academy and The American Ballet Theatre. Jones Magazine gives us the whole scoop, click the image for more…
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Black Enterprise Analyzes Jay-Z’s Marketing Power
Black Enterprise takes a look at the effect Jay-Z has on the products and brands he chooses to endorse, whether through his music, or endorsement deal. Click the image for more…
Jay-Z Finally Fires Back At The Birdman!!!
While the Internet was on fire with Kanye and Jay-Z’s new track “H.A.M.”, a number of people may have overlooked a subliminal diss Jay sent towards Cash Money’s Birdman.
The Lex Luger produced track features a line from Hov where he says, “Really, you got baby money” and adds, “(You) ain’t got my lady’s money!”
According to Forbes the line is Jay’s way of discounting Baby and his protégé Lil Wayne.
Baby previously took shots at Jay in 2009 after he was named the “Hottest Emcee In The Game” by MTV.
He was quoted saying that Lil Wayne should be “The Hottest” because he makes more money.
“I don’t think [Jay-Z] is the number one emcee in no kind of way. Wayne’s the best. He do the most and he make the most money. I don’t think no n*gga in the business make more money than us. How can you be the best if you don’t make the most money? And you don’t do the most? Lyrically, come on man, be for real, can’t nobody f*ck with Wayne…if you number one and you ain’t getting no money it don’t mean nothing.”
Obviously Jay caught wind of the statement and put it in the new song.
Jay earned an estimated $63 million last year, Beyonce $87 million.
Wayne mad $20 million while Birdman was not listed as one of the highest earners in Hip-Hop.
The Perfect Ice…The Perfect Drink(Swipe)
The Iceman Cometh: The Rise of a Gourmet Ice Entrepreneur
By Katie Robbins
Michel Dozois is pinning the success of his two-year old company on the dubious thrills of watching ice melt.
When courting new clients, Dozois, the owner of Los Angeles’s Névé Luxury Ice Company, sits them down for a simple experiment. He fills two Old Fashioned glasses with ice—the first with conventional cubes, the second with his company’s “ice rock,” a single large cube, which takes up about 50 percent of the glass—and tops them with a dram of good whisky (his spirit of choice is Laphroig). Dozois then asks the potential clients to sit back and wait, allowing nature to take its course.
About every seven minutes, he asks the client to take a sip—first of the conventional drink where the ice is rapidly melting, then of the drink made with the sturdy opaque brick of Névé ice. The second shows minimal dilution; it’s essentially whisky served neat, but much, much colder.
But Dozois’s pitch isn’t only about taste. He insists that less dilution also benefits a bar’s bottom-line. “If your body can take this much fluid,” explains Dozois, gesturing to several glasses, “How much of that do you want to be water? If it dilutes less, it will take you less time to drink what’s in the glass, and the bar will make more sales.”
Gourmet ice, often heavily filtered and hand-cut to guarantee the optimal amount of dilution, has officially become part of cocktail culture. Sasha Petraske, who in 2000 reinvigorated the New York bar scene with his speakeasy Milk & Honey, is considered by many to be the father of designer ice in the U.S. Since then, bars around the country, from Bar Agricole in San Francisco to Philadelphia’s Franklin Mortgage Investment Company, have followed suit, creating cocktails that feature market-fresh ingredients, small-batch bitters, and large blocks of beautiful ice. Continue reading
Marcus Jordan Starting To Show Promise..
Marcus Jordan has bolstered his scoring as a
He sits in a suite high above the basketball court, protected from potential autograph-seekers and media members and college students with cell-phone cameras.
Just in case any of them were to, you know, show interest.
For the most part, though, NBA legend Michael Jordan can slip in to watch a basketball game at the University of Central Florida these days without much fanfare. A few folks may gawk and point prior to tipoff, but usually they’re fixated on the same player His Airness is there to watch.
Jordan’s son Marcus.
“I’m sure a lot of people think this opportunity was just handed to me because I’m related to Michael Jordan,” Marcus Jordan told Yahoo! Sports after a game earlier this month. “The truth is that it wasn’t easy. I worked hard to get here, just like everyone else.”
It’s paying off.
Not just for Marcus Jordan, but for Central Florida as well.
More than a month into the 2010-11 season, the 11-0 Knights are one of seven remaining undefeated teams in college basketball and tout victories over major conference schools such as Florida, Miami and South Florida.
Marcus Jordan is one of the main reasons. Continue reading
The Only 5 Social Media Sites Moguls Need(Swipe)
Suffering from social media overload? Join the club. It seems as if every week as there’s another site everyone’s buzzing about that you must be on and another network you’re getting invitations to join. James Andrews, a managing partner of the Atlanta-based social media communications company Everywhere, blogs and tweets as the “Key Influencer” while helping companies develop social media strategies. And he says you can have an effective social media presence by being in just a few places. We asked Andrews to boil it down for you to the absolute musts.
Twitter (For Businesses and Professionals)
“It’s a wonderful place for people to learn more about what’s inside your head. Twitter is important because of the ability to get news fast from the people you want to hear from.” Andrews also points out that if your business isn’t on Facebook and Twitter, savvy consumers will make assumptions about it.
Facebook (For Businesses)
For businesses, Andrews suggests leveraging the sheer number of users on Facebook by engaging them though a fan page or Facebook groups. “There are 600 million people on Facebook, and they now are yearning and searching for more. Your brand could be that thing that satiates their appetite.”
YouTube (For Businesses)
“Video is becoming just as powerful as text, and YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google. Especially if you have a product, it’s a great place to do unveilings.” Andrews says how-to videos do especially well on YouTube, so boost business by helping people learn to use your product.
Wikipedia (For Professionals)
Andrews calls Wikipedia the “attic” of social media because many people don’t think about how they are or aren’t represented there. “Wikipedia is highly indexable; it’s a great place to put your bio up to allow people to see who you are. If you’re a public person, you definitely want to pay attention to it.”
LinkedIn (For Professionals)
“For a professional, LinkedIn is critical. LinkedIn’s a great place to be found by headhunters but also to connect with other professionals.” Andrews suggests LinkedIn groups for engaging with like-minded people and also linking your profile to your Twitter account for greater exposure.
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The Real Griselda Blanco Is Not Happy Bout This!!!
Jacki-O said that Griselda Blanco is not happy about this mixtape. This means, ya a$$ better cut that mess out. For those of you that are not familiar with who Griselda Blanco is, she is pretty much called the GODMOTHER aka The Black Widow aka The Female Scarface. She was a ruthless killer that was worth almost a billi off of that work, and had more power than the Mob!! And she is still alive! Here is what Jacki said:
Griselda Blanco with last known boyfriend..
“I got a call from her son in regards to me using her name for the mixtape but it was done in all respect though. He had a lot of respect about it but he just had a concern of the way I was portraying his mom. We spoke about it and he really wanted me to let everyone know that his mom was a loving mother despite the way the media has portrayed her and the way the streets thought of her but she was still a loving mother. But what we know about her is she wasn’t to be played with. She was that chick that if you didn’t have her bricks or her money she coming for you so I named my mixtape Griselda Blanco and people that know about it love it.”
More dumb rapper stuff. SMH. Jacki need to stop. Griselda Blanco was a super ill cocaine trafficking murderer. Not a rapper.
Russell Simmons New Book Redefines Rich
The visionary entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller Do You! delivers a powerful guide to true abundance.
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that wealth is rooted in much more than the stock market. True wealth has more to do with what’s in your heart than what’s in your wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons became one of America’s shrewdest entrepreneurs, achieving a level of success that most investors only dream about. No matter how much material gain he accumulated, he never stopped lending a hand to those less fortunate. In Rich Inside and Out, Simmons uses his rare blend of spiritual savvy and street-smart wisdom to offer a new definition of wealth-and share timeless principles for developing an unshakable sense of self that can weather any financial storm. As Simmons says, “Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.”
In straight-talking inspiring chapters, Simmons provides unforgettable true stories from his own road to riches, delving into the principles and practices that have kept him energized and focused. Whether we’re in the boardroom or on a yoga mat, Simmons says, we have to be able to listen to our inner voices. Finding our unique potential, we can make the right moves, ruled not by money but by the joy of conscientious living and giving. With these philosophies and more, Simmons brings us a stimulus package of consciousness that will never run dry, backed by the power of the higher self.