Jay-Z and Diddy Are Officially the World’s Highest-Paid Rappers

Which rapper is the richest of them all? 

Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) and Diddy (born Sean John Combs) have clinched the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on Forbes’ 2018 list of the world’s highest-paid hip-hop artists. 

Hov tops the list with an astounding $76.5 million haul that includes revenue generated from the release of 4:44 and a sold-out tour. His 2017-2018 income is a drop in the bucket compared to his estimated $900 million net worth. 

Diddy made $12 million less than the Roc Nation founder, but his $65 million yield from business ventures including Ciroc vodka, DeLeon tequila and Aquahydrate alkaline water was still good enough for the runner-up spot.

Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole round out the top 5, each having earned $58 million, $47 million and $35.5 million, respectively. 

Forbes reports that Nas had the biggest financial year of his career thanks to investments in Silicon Valley cash cows and online media. The 44-year-old multi-platinum artist made the the list for the first time in a quarter-century with an impressive $35 million haul that puts him just behind Cole. 

Check out this year’s top ten highest-paid rappers below: 

10. Kanye West – $27.5 Million

9. Future – $30 Million

8. Pitbull – $32 Million

7. Nas – $35 Million (Tied With Dr. Dre) 

6. Dr Dre. – $35 Million (Tied With Nas)

5. J. Cole – $35.5 Million

4. Drake – $47 Million

3. Kendrick Lamar – $58 Million

2. Diddy – $64 Million

1. Jay-Z $76.5 Million

Drive Like a Super Spy in the New ‘Forza Horizon 4’ James Bond Pack

Forza Horizon 4 is due out October 2nd and the demo should be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace by the time you’re reading this. This time around, the team is taking its high-revving action to the countryside of Great Britain and there’s no better way to do that than in ten iconic cars of the most famous Brit in the world. Forza Horizon 4 is letting you push the red line like James Bond himself.

Adding to the 450+ cars already in the game, the Bond Pack is heavy on the Aston Martins, reaching all the way back to Sean Connery’s 1964 DB5 and checking off several other DBs along the way. 

Of course, you can’t have a Bond pack without peppering in some BMWs and Jaguars in there too and Forza is covering all their bases. Here’s the complete list of included cars:

  • 1964 James Bond Edition Aston Martin DB5
  • 1969 James Bond Edition Aston Martin DBS
  • 1974 James Bond Edition AMC Hornet X Hatchback
  • 1977 James Bond Edition Lotus Esprit S1
  • 1981 James Bond Edition Citroën 2CV6
  • 1986 James Bond Edition Aston Martin V8
  • 1999 James Bond Edition BMW Z8
  • 2008 James Bond Edition Aston Martin DBS
  • 2010 James Bond Edition Jaguar C-X75
  • 2015 James Bond Edition Aston Martin DB10

Those Astons are well and good but we may be most excited to take that 1977 Lotus Esprit out for a spin, though we don’t have high hopes about its submarine capabilities. We were happy to hear that, even though we won’t be able to use the Bond-style gadgets while playing the game, many of them would remain intact for you to peruse in the Forzavista mode that lets you get out and ogle these beauties properly. 

You can check out the official story from Microsoft here and download the Forza Horizon 4 demo here or on your Xbox One itself when it’s available. As for getting your hands on these cars IRL, you better start saving now

Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where ‘the child is the customer’

A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects. The highlight will be the creation of a network for nonprofit preschools that are to be built in low-income communities and accept students at no charge.

Bezos also intends to fund existing nonprofits that help homeless families by providing access to housing and food. Both initiatives will be overseen by something he’s calling the Bezos Day One Fund, which he’s committing $2 billion toward.

Each of the initiatives will have a specific group behind it: the Day 1 Families Fund and the Day 1 Academies Fund. The Families Fund will issue grants on a yearly basis to organizations doing “needle-moving work.” The Academies Fund will…

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US carriers introduce Project Verify to replace individual app passwords

Four major US carriers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon — are joining forces to launch a single sign-on service for smartphones. The service, called Project Verify, authenticates app logins so that users don’t need to memorize passwords for all their apps. The companies say their solution verifies users through their phone number, phone account type, SIM card details, IP address, and account tenure. Essentially, your phone serves as the verification method with details that are hard to spoof.

Users have to manually grant apps permission to use Verify, and it works similarly to how you might log into some services through Gmail or Facebook instead of using a unique account password. Of course, these apps also have to choose to work…

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