EXCLUSIVE / RARE / OFFICIAL
remix for 50 Cent's smash
single, 'I Get Money.'
Starring 50 Cent aka Curtis
Jackson, P. Diddy aka Sean
Combs aka Sean John, Jay-Z aka
Sean Carter, and Kayne West
aka Mr. Graduate.

Rapper Curtis '50 Cent'
Jackson tips his
G-Unit-branded hat to Forbes
on the remix of his latest
single, 'I Ge
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EXCLUSIVE / RARE / OFFICIAL
remix for 50 Cent's smash
single, 'I Get Money.'
Starring 50 Cent aka Curtis
Jackson, P. Diddy aka Sean
Combs aka Sean John, Jay-Z aka
Sean Carter, and Kayne West
aka Mr. Graduate.

Rapper Curtis '50 Cent'
Jackson tips his
G-Unit-branded hat to Forbes
on the remix of his latest
single, 'I Get Money.' Dubbed
the 'Forbes 1, 2, 3 Remix' and
the 'Billion Dollar Remix,'
the song, which features
cameos by fellow hip-hop
kingpins Jay-Z and Sean
'Diddy' Combs, is a boast over
the trio's top billing on
Forbes' recent list of the top
earners in rap music.

'A lot of money on this
record!' 50 Cent crows on the
track, released Monday
evening, which is based on the
third single from his latest
studio album, Curtis. It is
the first collaboration among
the three rap moguls, who each
kick off their stanzas by
gloating, 'I run New York!'

Jay-Z holds the top spot on
Forbes' Hip-Hop Cash Kings
list with 2006 earnings of $34
million, trailed by 'Fiddy'
(as 50 Cent is known to fans)
with $32 million. Diddy nabbed
the No. 3 spot with total
earnings of $28 million. (See:
' Hip-Hop Cash Kings')

True enough to the 'Billion
Dollar Remix' title, the
trioâ??all native New
Yorkersâ??boast sprawling
Manhattan-based media empires
with more than $1 billion in
total gross sales of related
merchandise.

Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter is the
chief executive of Def Jam
Recordings, a unit of
Universal Music. He also owns
the 40/40 clubhouse franchise,
as well as a small stake in
the New Jersey Nets. (Need we
mention Beyonce?)

In addition to topping Forbes'
Hip-Hop Cash Kings list, Jay-Z
also debuted at No. 9 this
year on Forbes' Celebrity 100
list of the most powerful
entertainers, edging out
industry heavyweights like
Steve Spielberg and David
Letterman.

Combs lords over Bad Boy
Worldwide Entertainment, whose
business interests include the
Warner-backed Bad Boy Records,
Sean John clothing label, a
best-selling men's cologne and
a string of programs for MTV.

In an e-mail to Forbes about
the single, Diddy wrote, 'We
appreciate the opportunity to
trail blaze at Forbes.com,
proving we're not only the TOP
earning entertainers but the
TOP entertainment thinkers to
come up with something as
innovative as this.'

Since the release of his 2003
debut album Get Rich or Die
Tryin', 50 Cent has amassed a
sizable fortune through his
G-Unit entertainment
portfolio, which includes a
record label, clothing line,
Reebok sneaker line, ring
tones, video games and even a
recent line of 'urban fiction'
published by a division of
Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news
- people ). (He spent his
first royalty check buying
copyrights to the G-Unit
moniker.) In 2006, 50 Cent
appeared on the cover of
Forbes Magazine's Celebrity
100 issue.

'This remix is more than a
song, it's a celebration and
collaboration of hip-hop's
elite,' 50 Cent said.

This summer, rumors in the
blogosphere suggested 50 Cent
rival Kanye West might appear
in the remix. Not so. 50 Cent
has been embroiled in a
well-publicized sales scuffle
with Kanye West, whose latest
album Graduation dropped on
Sept. 11, the same day as
Curtis. 50 Cent famously told
reporters that if West outsold
him, he'd retire from his solo
rap career. (He later
qualified the statement by
betting West would suffer a
massive drop off after
first-week sales.)

Though an official tally won't
be available before Wednesday,
early reports have West
besting 50 Cent by at least
100,000 copies. But in the
duel over who makes more
money, 50 handily trumps West,
who pocketed an estimated $17
million last year, roughly
half of 50's income.

West will have to sell
millions of copies of his
latest album, plus embark on a
mega-successful worldwide
stadium tour a la the Rolling
Stones, to match 50's
estimated earnings by year's
end, even discounting his
recent album. In May, Coca
Cola (nyse: KO - news - people
) announced it would pay $4.1
billion to buy Vitamin Water,
the bottled water company in
which 50 Cent owns a stake.
Fiddy's estimated take from
that sale, after taxes: $100
million.

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