Talking about puttin in work....between Weezy, Jay and Pac who you think is the hardest working man in Hip Hop dead or alive?
Pac, just because he had more solid work than Weezy IMO.
Just because u record a lot of material does not necessarily make u the hardest working, or the smartest working for that matter. But Pac did have a relentless work ethic. But a lot of posthumously released material from 2Pac was songs that were never meant to be released because he felt they were not good enuff, left over tracks after trimming down what he wants to go on his albums.
Even though some of it is good, it was released mostly to milk his legacy and make money off that.
Anybody can setup shop in the studio and churn out joint after joint and the result is quantity over quality. Very few artists can maintain a level of quality when doing that.
Anyway Pac is dead, Weezy is in jail, Jay is on TOP of the forbes list with $63 Million 2009-2010, wiping his a** with 100 dollar bills coz he works smart.
#1. Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter - $63m
#2. Sean "Diddy" Combs - $30M
#3. Aliuane "Akon" Thiam - $21M [that Lady Gaga money is no joke...her album went diamond]
#4. Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter - $20M
#5. Andre "Dr. Dre" Young - $17M
#6. Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges - $16M
#7. Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus - $15M
#8. Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley - $14M
#9. Pharrell Williams - $13M
#10 Kanye West - $12M
#11. Aubrey "Drake" Graham - $10M
#12. Clifford "T.I." Harris - $9M (tie)
#13. Ka**eem "Swizz Beatz" Dean - $9M (tie)
#14. Marshall "Eminem" Mathers - $8M (tie)
#15 Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson - $8M (tie)