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Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and J Cole are known as hip-hop’s Big Three, but Lamar feels differently. He has allegedly taken a jibe at the other two members. The artists will battle it out on stage or in music videos, but today, we will compare their estimated net worths. Both Lamar and the Hotline Bling crooner are well-established personalities in the music world and have impressive fortunes, but who has more wealth? Scroll below to find out.
About Kendrick Lamar & his earnings-
Kendrick Lamar was born in 1987 in California’s Compton to Kenneth Duckworth, a former hustler who worked at KFC, and Paula Oliver, a hairdresser. Famous basketball player Nick Young and rapper Baby Keem are Lamar’s cousins. He took on the stage name K Dot in high school and started doing freestyling for his peers. A student called Dave Free traveled from Inglewood to watch Lamar rap, and the duo soon became good friends.
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They started to record music at Dave’s Garage, which they used as their studio. Dave was Kendrick’s hype man. He released his first mixtape when he was 16 years old while in high school. In the early 2000s, he signed up with Top Dawg Entertainment and released another mixtape. Around 2008 and 2009, Lamar gained recognition by appearing in several music videos. Lamar’s “good kid, m.A.A.d City,” released in 2012, sold over 1.1 million copies in the US alone. He has worked with many prominent artists, including Drake and J Cole; thus, the Big Three came into being.
Besides them, he has worked with Big Sean, Birdman, 2 Chainz, and others. He has also worked with Kanye West, Eminem, and Taylor Swift. He earned around $60 million between 2017-2018. Kendrick has earned multiple Grammys throughout his career and an Oscar nomination as well. In 2023, his ‘Big Steppers Tour became one of the highest-grossing rap tours ever 2023, earning over $110.9 million across 73 shows as per Celebrity Net worth.
Kendrick Lamar’s Net Worth
His earnings come from shows, music albums, and other sources. Lamar also has an impressive real estate portfolio. He paid $523,400 for a house in Eastvale, CA. In 2017, he paid $2.65 million for another home, followed by his 2019 purchase of a Manhattan Meach worth $9.7 million. In 2022, he purchased a house in LA’s Bel Air area worth $16 million; last year, he bought a home for $8.6 million.
The Oscar-nominated musician has an estimated net worth of $75 million.
About Drake and his earnings –
Aubrey Drake Graham was born in Canada to African-American drummer Jerry Lee Lewis and Sandra ‘Sandi’ Graham. His parents got divorced when he was only five. At 15, Drake started his career in showbiz not as a music artist but as an actor. He appeared in the teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. He reportedly started acting because his mother was very sick, and they were penniless. He has been in the music industry since 2006.
Drake’s debut album ‘Thank Me Later’ emerged in 2010 and became #1 on the hip-hop charts. In 2017, he allegedly made a whopping $95 million; from 2018 to 2019, the Hotline Bling star made $75 million. In 2022, Universal Music Group re-signed Drake, and the deal is estimated to be between $360 and $400 million. His music catalog makes $50 million alone per year.
The Champagne Papi reportedly made $ 50,000 per year as salary from his show Degrassi. It is around $2000 per month after taxes. He is among the highest-paid music artists and has had an illustrious career.
He was associated with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment and released a mixtape in 2009. His albums and songs are often at #1 on several charts. Drake has worked with Eminem, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, and Kanye West. The Hotline Bling singer grosses around $1 million per concert. He is the third best-selling Canadian musician after Shania Twain and Celine Dion.
Drake’s net worth
Champagne Papi has several real estate assets, significantly adding to his astonishing wealth. He bought a large mansion in LA’s Saddle Ranch Bar for $7.7 million in cash. It is nicknamed the YOLO Estate. He also purchased a house listed for $27 million at just $7.7 million. His private property now has 6.7 acres, representing $15 million in real estate acquisition costs alone. He listed his YOLO Estate for $22.7 million. NFL star Matthew Stafford paid $11 million for two of the three estates that previously made up the YOLO Estate.
He has a condo in Toronto and has also spent $6.7 million on a plot in another area in Toronto. He built a 50,000-square-foot mansion on the two-acre property. Drake paid $75 million for British singer Robbie Williams’ Beverly Hills mansion. However, he listed the property for sale last year at $88 million. He also owns a Boeing 767 private jet worth between $75 million– and $100 million. He has his record label, OVO Sound, a bourbon-based Virginia Black whiskey brand. Drake has accumulated a spectacular net worth of around $250 million from his tours and other ventures.
Kendrick Lamar VS Drake
Drake’s net worth is an estimated 233.3% more than Kendrick Lamar’s.
Kendrick Lamar dissed Drake & others –
Lamar dissed Drake and J Cole in his song Like That at 2:19. The lyrics are, “Yeah, get up with me, f*ck sneak dissing/’First Person Shooter,’ I hope they came with three switches. Think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD/Motherfuck the Big 3, n***a, it’s just big me.” It stirred up the social media.
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