
To celebrate his well-earned success, Billboard has put together a list of Mr. It would seem that Jay wouldn’t have as much time to commit to music considering his many entrepreneurial endeavors - but rapper continues making waves in the industry, and likely isn’t stopping any time soon. As the first hip-hop artist to join Forbes’ billionaires club, he also has a strong investment portfolio with stakes in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Uber, milk-alternative company Oatly and Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty, among several others. In addition to his 13 studio albums, 24 Grammy awards and over 100 tracks that have landed on Billboard’s Hot 100, he launched Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995 and talent management company Roc Nation in 2008, and bought and rebranded streaming service Tidal in 2015.


Since 1996, Jay-Z continues to leave his mark on the world, from hip-hop and beyond, by releasing material favored by the masses both as a soloist and collaborator to music’s biggest stars - not limited to Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Coldplay, Kanye West and, of course, his wife Beyoncé.

It’s certainly a feat when you’re one of the most successful hip-hop artists of all time.
