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Topic subjectThe Vitamin Water Deal and the Beats Deal are the biggest deals
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12416642, The Vitamin Water Deal and the Beats Deal are the biggest deals
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Apr-17-14 04:04 PM
ever for any rapper. I am trying to think of any other none athletic endorsement deals that are bigger and drawing a blank.

Remember the baby universal deals everyone is talking about here was "only" worth 30 million. Puffy sold bad boy for like 30M. Rocafella sold for a mere 10M. Berry Gordy sold Motown for like 60M (though not adjusted for inflation).

Music alone doesn't give artist fuck you money (though I think Russell Simmons sold Def Jam for like 100M).

Dre and 50 each made 100s of millions of dollars on deals that turned out to be way bigger than the endorsee thought they they would be.

That's enough money to keep them on this list for YEARS even if they spending crazy dough.

That's why I am saying Dre and 50 are lucky. Because they each had one big deal that put them in the stratosphere while Diddy and Jay have a string of successful deals that are the source of their cake.


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