LOS ANGELES: Forbes magazine has declared rapper Kanye West a billionaire worth at least $1.3 billion.
An estimated figure of the wealth of Kanye West, husband of Kim Kardashian, is $1.3 billion. The musician is now on the list of people worth at least $1 billion.
The 42-year-old rapper’s Yeezy footwear often sells for more than $200 a pair in the United States. West was associated with Nike for years but broke away in 2013, lending his name to Adidas as they launched their first shoe together in 2015.
According to Forbes, West has been pressing the magazine for years to be listed as one of its mega-rich but that it declined, for lack of proof.
“For years it had applied what it called the Trump rule to West: take whatever the future president insisted he was worth, divide by three, and start honing from there,” the magazine stated.
The rapper is the second American rapper to make the Forbes list after Jay-Z, who made the cut last year. Kanye West, born in 1977, is an American producer, rapper, and fashion designer who parlayed his production success in the late 1990s and early 2000s into a career as a popular, critically acclaimed solo artist.
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