The bean counters are out with their list of the highest-paid rappers of 2021.

Highest paid means who made the most money over the year, not net-worth.

As you can derive from the list, the biggest earners weren't making all or even most of their money on music.

Here's the list.

No. 10 (tie): Birdman - $25 million
No. 10 (tie): Doja Cat - $25 million
No. 10 (tie): Tech N9ne - $25 million
No. 9: J Cole - $27 million
No. 8: Eminem - $28 million
No. 7: DJ Khaled - $35 million
No. 6: Travis Scott - $38 million
No. 5: Wiz Khalifa - $45 million
No. 4: Drake - $50 million
No. 3:  Diddy - $75 million
No. 2: Kanye West - $250 million
No. 1:  Jay-Z - $470 million

Any surprises?

Fresh of the presses: my list of hip-hop's highest-paid artists of 2021. The top ten acts earned more than $1 billion pretax combined, nearly double their prepandemic annual haul.

1. Jay-Z $470m
2. Kanye West $250
3. Diddy $75m

Full list: https://t.co/Ls8Re6D509 pic.twitter.com/ZhWGR3SjvO

— Zack O’Malley Greenburg (@zogblog) February 28, 2022