Diddy, Puff Daddy, Diddy and sometimes, simply, Puff, the rapper-in-the-making was a young boy who faced immense tragedy. Combs was only two years old when his father, Melvin Combs, was gunned down. Diddy’s dad was the first of many deaths in the singer’s inner circle.

Between 2000 and 2020, Diddy earned well over $1 billion from his majorly lucrative business empire. Diddy earns money from music royalties, partnerships and sponsorships and his investments in brands like Ciroq vodka. The superstar also owns a stake in DeLeon tequila and an alkaline water brand called Aquahydrate.

Melvin Earl Combs was an associate of notorious New York City Drug Lord Frank Lucas. Combs at age 33 was fatally gunned down in 1972 after a failed drug deal due to being mistaken for a police informant.

Puffy changed his name to P. Diddy because of The Notorious B.I.G. … After a few years of P. Diddy, Combs decided to drop the P and just go simply by Diddy. He said in an interview with Katie Couric on Today in 2005 that he dropped the P to make it easier for his fans to cheer for him.

Combs had then discovered Christopher Wallace and befriended him. Wallace was known as Biggie Smalls and went to record as Notorious B.I.G. in 1994. Wallace was rising in the music world. Both he and Combs negotiated $15 million to transfer his Bad Boy brand over to Arista Records.

Chance Combs, 15, is Diddy’s only child with his longtime associate, Sarah Chapman. Chance was born in July 2006, just five months before Diddy welcomed his twin daughters with Kim.

Let us now get into the list of the 20 richest rappers in the world with their net worth.

• Kanye West. Net Worth: $1.8 billion. …
• Jay Z. Net Worth: $1.4 billion. …
• Sean Combs / Diddy. Net Worth: $900 million. …
• Dr. Dre. …
• Eminem. Net Worth: $230 million. …
• Pharrell Williams. Net Worth: $200 million. …
• Master P. Net Worth: $200 million. …
• Drake.

Net Worth: $6.6 Billion Kanye West is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. He is now the richest rapper in the world, with a net worth of $6.6 billion.

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Sean Combs (born Sean John Combs; November 4, 1969), also known by the stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy or Diddy, is an American rapper, record executive, record producer, and entrepreneur.

Well, their first link-up came around in 1992 when Diddy arranged to meet the then-up-and-coming rapper after seeing a feature on him in a magazine. The first time I met B.I.G., I brought him to a soul food restaurant called Sylvia’s, uptown in Harlem, Diddy recalled in a 2017 interview with Revolt.

Harrell said one of the reasons he fired Diddy was because MCA Records the label’s distributor didn’t want to release B.I.G.’s debut album because of its raw and rough subject matter about street life. I didn’t want to sit there and be the one confining Puff because the corporation was telling me to do that.

The hip-hop mogul has never married, and he and Porter were off and on for years. He describes her as the love of his life. It is clear that if any woman was going to tie the renowned playboy down, it would have been Porter, notes Vanity Fair writer Tressie McMillan Cottom.

49years (October 17, 1972) Eminem / Age Eminem was born on 17 October 1972 as Marshall Bruce Mathers III in St. Joseph, Missouri. Eminem’s age is 48 years old (as of 2020).

Diddy’s twin daughters, D’Lila and Jessie, made their runway debut at the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Venice, making late mom Kim Porter proud in the process. Nearly three years have passed since Kim Porter unexpectedly died of pneumonia.

The mother was Sarah Chapman, 33, who lives in Atlanta, worked in fashion and knew Combs for several years, her attorney tells Essence.

Who is the most famous rapper who went broke? Lauryn Hill tops our list. Lauryn Hill plead guilty to tax evasion in 2012. She also risked being evicted from her home around this time.

Minaj has worked with some of the best rappers in the world, and she is the wealthiest female rapper right now. As of 2021, Nicki Minaj’s net worth is roughly $75 million, making her the richest female rapper in the world.

His net worth is estimated at $11.9million as of 2020. That wealth will largely come from his career in music. In 2021, Billboard named him the fourth highest-paid rapper of 2020.

As of 2021, DJ Khaled’s net worth is estimated to be $75 million. DJ Khaled is an American/Palestinian record producer, radio personality, DJ, record label executive, and author. …

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Top 10 Richest Rappers in the World & Their Net Worths

• # 10. Snoop Dogg- $152 Million Net Worth. …
• # 9. Pharrell Williams – $155 Million Net Worth. …
• # 8. Lil Wayne – $158 Million Net Worth. …
• # 7. Drake – $190 Million Net Worth. …
• # 6. Eminem- $220 Million Net Worth. …
• # 5. Master P- $245 Million Net Worth. …
• # 4. Dr. …
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