Rappers

Big Pun Net Worth

Published

8 months ago

September 1, 2023

Daniel Wanburg

Big Pun's Net Worth as of 2024
$5 Million

Christopher Lee Rios was born on the 10^th November 1971 in The Bronx, New York, USA, of Puerto Rican and American ancestry, and died from obesity-related heart failure on the 7^th February 2000. He wass known to the world for being an American hip hop artist, who is best known for his debut album entitled “Capital Punishment”, which hit No. 1 on the hip hop charts. He was an active member of the music industry from 1990 to 2000, when he passed away.

Have you ever wondered how rich Big Pun was? According to the sources, it is estimated by sources that the overall amount of Big Pun’s net worth was over $5 million, which was earned through his career in the music industry.

Big Pun Net Worth $5 Million

Big Pun had a very hard childhood, because his father deceased when he was a baby, while his mother was addicted to drugs; he had a stepfather, who was very abusive. Thus, his grandmother looked after him. Under the bad influence of his family, Pun started having problems, so he was kicked out of high school, so was raised on the streets of the big city. His career began in 1990s, when he started writing lyrics, and eventually formed a rap group, consisting of the rappers Lyrical Assassin, Toom and Joker Jamz. However, he couldn’t break into the rap scene until 1995, when he had a guest appearance on the Fat Joe’s second album called “Jealous One’s Envy”, under the name Big Punisher.

The next year, he changed his alias to Big Pun and began to record music for his first album. He soon met producers Knobody and his colleague Sean C, who were hired to mix the song “I’m Not A Player”, which previously became a hit, performed by the singer Joe, and the new song was entitled “Still Not A Player”, and was recorded as a duet with its original singer. The song became a huge hit, and immediately launched Pun into the rap scene and contributed significantly to his net worth.

In 1998, Big Pun’s debut album was finally released, entitled “Capital Punishment”, and proved to be a tremendous accomplishment by the rapper, as it eventually reached platinum certification, and also 5th place on the Billboards top 200 chart, increasing his net worth by a large margin. After the release, Big Pun joined the Terror Squad, which was previously formed on the initiation of the rapper Fat Joe. Terror Squad released their only album in 1999, entitled “The Album”, but it was a complete bust.

Unfortunately, Pun’s career came to an abrupt stop, as he suffered a heart attack related to obesity on the 7^th February 2000, which proved to be fatal for him.

However, two more albums were released after his death. His second album came out in April of 2000, entitled “Yeeeah Baby”, which was certified gold only three weeks after its release. In 2001, a compilation album was released, which consisted of some of his greatest hits, as well as previously unreleased material, and some of his guest appearances.

Besides albums, after his death, in September of 2009 the documentary movie about him called “Big Pun: The Legacy”, directed by Vlad Yudin, was released, which contains interviews with celebrities and others who knew him. Many famous musicians from the American scene appeared in the movie, such as Snoop Dogg, DJ Skribble, Xzibit and others.

Thanks to his accomplishment in the music industry, Big Pun was named No. 25 on the 50 Greatest MCs of All Time list by website About.com. He was also ranked No. 11 on the list of the 22 Greatest MCs, by MTV2.

Regarding his personal life, Big Pun was married to Eliza Rios. He left her behind with their three children when he deceased at the age of just 28. Their youngest child, son Chris Rivers has since followed his father’s footsteps and become a musician.

Daniel Wanburg

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Rappers

Hurricane Chris Net Worth

Published

5 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Christopher Dooley Jr. is better known by his stage name Hurricane Chris because of his manner of rapping extremely quickly like a real hurricane and twist every word. He was born on February 27, 1989 in Louisiana. In 2014 he has a net worth of $300,000. Today he is called one of the most up-and-coming rappers in USA. In 2007, being 18-yeas-old, Chris decided to drop out of Huntington High School and pursue his future career as a rapper, and started to work only with music. Christopher’s debut single was called “A Bay Bay” and hit the top 10 rap charts in the USA.That was the first serious investment in Hurricane’s net worth.

Hurricane Chris Net Worth $300,000

After a successful beginning Chris released his debut album called “51/50 Ratchet” in 2007. “51/50 Ratched” debuted at number 24 on the well-known Billboard 200 chart in US, and in the first week 26,000 copies of album were sold. Christopher says it was inspired by South coast hip hop – a sub genre of American hip hop music which was locally popular at Shreveport, where Hurricane grew-up. Soon after releasing his debut album, the young rapper released his third single called “Playas Rock” which was produced by Mr. Collipark. The single peaked at number 47 on the Hot R&B chart and number 25 on Hot Rap Tracks. Two years later, in 2009, the rapper released his second album “Unleashed” in the same Southern hip hop style. “Unleashed” peaked at number 46 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number 20 on US Top Rap Albums. For the young artist this was a definite success, but this album failed to produce any hits. However, two singles were released from this album – “Headboard” and “Halle Berry (She’s Fine)”. The “Headboard” single featured the voice of famous American rapper and the founder of label “Big Gates Records” Plies and Mario’s voice.

After his second album Hurricane Chris’ career slowed considerably. “Uneashed” didin’t become as popular as Christopher expected, and he started to work on his third studio album entitled “Showtime: Still 51/50” which should be released on the rapper’s own label “51/50 Entertainment” with “FyreHouse Entertainment”. Because of that Chris tried to work with many different producers like the famous American record producer, rapper and songwriter Shawty Redd, also with DJ Spinz, Phunk Dawg, 1500 or Nothin, Mr. Bangladesh, Seven and others. During the interview with hip hop news website AllHipHop.com on May 25, 2010 Chris mentioned he had changed his third album’s title to “Return of the Hurricane”. On January 2 2013 Christopher started to work on his third album’s promotion. A new mixtape called “Caniac” was released and featured the song “Bend It Over”. Also “Caniac has songs “Go Crazy”, “I Don’t F*ck With Yall”, “Pu**y on Me”, “Down South” and “Ball Hard”. The songs were accompanied by music videos.

In 2014 Christopher Hurricane has released one more single, “Ratchet” which was produced by American DJ and record producer Dijon McFarlane, also known as DJ Mustard. “Ratchet” has become the 6th rapper’s single.

Rappers

Karlie Redd Net Worth

Published

5 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Karlie Redd is a well-known rap, hip hop star, dancer and also a reality show star – a star of all kinds. She is of a Trinidad and Jamaican ancestry. Karlie was born in New York. For quite a while she lived in Trinidad, the home to her ancestors. Karlie Redd moved back to New York to study in The Harlem School of the Arts. Later, she attended the Alvin Alley American Dance Theater. She is also known to be one of the newest cast members of the VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. Also, currently she is currently signed to Birdman’s Cash Money Management because she believes that her management company combined with her appearance in reality television series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta would help her career as a professional rapper.

Karlie Redd Net Worth $200,000

At the moment Karlie is looking for a producer who can make her famous by combining good songs and her vocals, thus making a real chart topper. Karlie is seeking fame in many ways. For example, she decided that her appearance on the show Scream Queens 2 would be a good opportunity to gain even more fame. In addition to that, she has appeared on several magazine covers, given that she is a part time model. Karlie is a talented dancer as well. She has publicly stated that she is represented by “Cash Money Management,” although the president of Cash Money Mack Maine immediately denied this statement saying that it‘s false. The main sources of Karlie’s wealth are her involvement in various projects where she presents herself as a model, actress, dancer, rapper, reality show star. So it is safe to say that the main source of her income is the entertainment industry. Karlie has a net worth of $200 thousand.

In addition to that Karlie has elaborated with a lot of class A celebrities, such as Jamie Foxx, Sean Kingston and Tyrese Gibson. There are few of the best known people in the entertainment business. Interestingly, working in the entertainment business where everyone knows each other’s personal details, Karlie has managed to keep some of the details about her life a secret. When asked about her age Karlie Redd never answers the exact number giving the opportunity for her fans and her colleagues to guess. This type of intrigue helps her to stay mysterious and in high demand. Some of her cast members in several shows that she appeared in stated that she is much older that she lets people believe she is. So it is no secret that there is a lot of rumors going on about how old Karlie actually is. Not only is she a secretive woman, but also, she has released her own hair product line called Redd Hairline by Karlie Redd. It is named after her last name. This business also adds wealth to Karlie. In 2012 Karlie released a single, called “A Girl Has Needs”. This was her first single. Karlie debuted as a film actress in her first movie, called “Black Spring Break 2: The Sequel”. It was released in 2001. Karlie Redd played the role of Visa.