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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Doctor Drey famously dubbed himself hip Hop's first billionaire about
- 0:06Speaker 2: a dozen years ago after he and Jimmy Iven sold
- 0:09Speaker 2: off Beats headphones to Apple, but Forbes, which annually ranks
- 0:13Speaker 2: the world's billionaires, never gave Drey the title after analyzing
- 0:16Speaker 2: tax and public record documents, at least until now.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Yeah. Forbes officially added Drey to their twenty twenty six
- 0:21Speaker 1: billionaires list for the first time, which makes him one
- 0:24Speaker 1: of only two hip hop artists currently on the list
- 0:27Speaker 1: other than being jay Z and.
- 0:28Speaker 3: I Love What. Doctor Dre said to Forbes, one of
- 0:31Speaker 3: the main reasons that he's made so much money is
- 0:33Speaker 3: that he's never been motivated by it and it's his
- 0:36Speaker 3: obsession to create perfect products that lead to the success.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Which obviously includes music, but also headphones and jin which
- 0:43Speaker 2: is his latest venture, and he's still just is all
- 0:46Speaker 2: about creating. He says he made over four hundred and
- 0:48Speaker 2: fifty tracks during the pandemic that he has not released yet.
- 0:53Speaker 2: To see the full ranking of billionaires from twenty twenty six,
- 0:56Speaker 2: hit Forbes dot com that's
- 0:58Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.