Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

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  Chief Keef Makes Less Money Than Your Average Orthodontist

  Posted by Nathan S. on 05/17/13 |
  Filed under Top Stories, Opinion, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor, Chief Keef

  A recent child support trail revealed that Chief Keef makes approximately $13K a month, $2600 of which will now go towards child support. Huh....well then. See more...

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  Rappers, How NOT to Get F**Ked Over By a Record Label

  Posted by Nathan S. on 09/25/12 |
  Filed under Top Stories, Opinion, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  Before we get started, this is one of those posts that's either going to be fucking fascinating, or deadly boring, depending on how much you care about the intricacies of entertainment law.See more...

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  Want Those Racks on Racks? Better Get to Branding

  Posted by Andrew Lewis on 08/08/12 |
  Filed under Opinion, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  A strong brand delivers its message clearly, confirms its credibility, connects its prospects emotional, motivates the buyer and solidifies the users loyalty; A good brand will understand that it needs to reside in the hearts and minds of its audience, period! See more...See more...

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  Is Cash Money Records Denying Drake His Cash Money? This New Lawsuit Says So

  Posted by Nathan S. on 08/01/12 |
  Filed under Top Stories, Opinion, Drake, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor, Cash Money

  Could the day come when Drake is no longer running with Lil Wayne? It doesn't seem likely, but when those dollars start getting involved, some unpredictable shit has been known to happen. In other words, you know Diddy's writing "come on over to Bad Boy" texts right now. See more...See more...

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  How NOT to Become Another Rapper in Trouble With the IRS

  Posted by Andrew Lewis on 07/16/12 |
  Filed under Features, Opinion, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  When we hear about tax issues we usually think of high end celebrities and the wealthy, right? Over the past couple months a few names have became media headliners for tax evasion such as Lionel Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Lil Wayne, Bubba Sparxxx and Wesley Snipes. See more...See more...

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  Your Favorite Rapper is Poor: 3 Ballers Who Are Really Broke

  Posted by Nathan S. on 07/08/12 |
  Filed under Best Of, Features, Best of 2011, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  "Your Favorite Rapper is Poor", the ongoing series in which I investigate the truth behind hip-hop's glittering finances is back, and since the last time around we tackled the "10 Richest Rappers", I thought it was only appropriate that this time around we flip the script and look at three ballers who in actuality are completely broke. See more...See more...

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  G.O.O.D. Music, Consequence & Why Your Favorite Artist Can’t Release an Album

  Posted by Andrew Lewis on 06/23/12 |
  Filed under Top Stories, Features, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  Earlier last week rapper Consequence was interviewed by the The Breakfast Club over at Power 105.1 ; he was asked about a number of topics that mainly surrounded Kanye and the G.O.O.D music family, but aside from discussing who wrote this and who wrote that, a nice debate about the inner workings of the music industry was illustrated. See more...See more...

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  Your Favorite Rapper is Poor: Who’s Getting Paid Off Pepsi’s Nicki Minaj Commercial?

  Posted by Nathan S. on 05/12/12 |
  Filed under Top Stories, Features, Opinion, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  If you're the average person you watched Nicki Minaj's new commercial for Pepsi and either talked some shit or didn't give two fucks. But if you're a true scholar of RefinedHype you watched Nicki Minaj's new Pepsi commercial and thought, "Huh, they switched up the production. I wonder how that affects the publishing pay outs?" See more...See more...

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  Your Favorite Rapper is Poor: Cashing In on Whitney Houston’s Death

  Posted by Nathan S. on 02/25/12 |
  Filed under Features, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  They'll of course never admit it, but executives at Sony had been waiting a long time for the call that Whitney Houston was dead. When famous artists die there's a huge rush to buy their previous work, a rush that the labels can cash in handily. See more...See more...

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  Your Favorite Rapper is Poor: Just How Rich is Gucci Mane?

  Posted by Nathan S. on 12/14/11 |
  Filed under Top Stories, Features, Gucci Mane, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor

  This week Gucci Mane settled his child support case, revealing in the process that he makes approximately $25K a month, or about $300K a year. For the legions of people who hate Gucci based solely on his essentially incomprehensible music alone this confirmation of his cash flow added fuel to their bonfires of hatred, but let's take a deep breath. Just how rich is Gucci Mane? See more...