Rappers
Curren$y Net Worth
Curren$y's Net Worth as of 2024
$7 Million
Shante Scott Franklin was born on the 4th April 1981, in New Orleans, Louisiana USA, and is a hip hop artist widely known under the stage name Curren$y. He was a member of the band 504 Boyz, and the founder of the label Jet Life Recordings. The artist’s net worth has been accumulated working in the entertainment industry since 2002.
How rich is the artist whose stage name is so related to wealth and money? It has been reported that the overall size of Curren$y’s net worth is as much as $7 million, with the main source of his net worth being his involvement in the music industry.
Curren$y Net Worth $7 Million
To begin with, Curren$y released his first recordings with the band 504 Boyz. They released three a studio albums beginning with “Goodfellas” in 2000, followed by “Ballers” (2002) and “Hurricane Katrina: We Gon Bounce Back” (2005), after which the band split up, and Curren$y focused on his solo career. Up to date, he has released six singles, 11 studio albums, 20 music videos, five collaboration albums and 21 mixtapes. The following albums entered the Billboard Top 100” “Pilot Talk” (2010), “Pilot Talk II” (2010), “Weekend at Burnie’s” (2011), “Jet World Order” (2011), “The Stoned Immaculate” (2012) and “Jet World Order 2” (2012).
Additionally, Curren$y is known as a very collaborative artist, known especially for his contributions alongside Lil Wayne, French Montana, Pusha T, Sean O’Connell and others. The collaboration albums are very popular among the fans of Curren$y, particularly “Covert Coup” (2011) recorded with The Alchemist and “Muscle Car Chronicles” (2012) with Sean O’Connell. On the whole, recordings have increased the net worth of Curren$y considerably.
To add more, Curren$y added to his net worth working on the short film “Pretty Girls” (2010) directed by Chris Robinson, and comedy film “Mac & Devin Go to High School” (2012) directed by Dylan C. Brown. He appeared in the main cast of the documentary film “Steps” (2014) directed and written by Andrew Litten.
An additional source of Curren$y’s net worth is his imprint Jet Life Recordings which was founded in 2011. Curren$y is also the CEO of the company which focuses on the work of hip hop artists. Currently, the company works with such rappers as Young Roddy, Street Wiz, Smoke DZA, Corner Boy P, Friend and others. On the official site of the company, Curren$y posts his video blog “The Drive in Teatre”. It has been estimated that more than three million downloads of the blog had been made by 2013. The audience of Curren$y fans is growing every day which helps him not only to become popular but also adds revenues to his net worth.
It has been reported that Curren$y went to court because the record label Dash DD172 managed by Damon Dash released a couple of his albums. Curren$y claims that he didn’t sign any contracts with the label and asks for $1.5 million to cover the damages. The court hasn’t decided the case, yet.
Concerning the private life of Curren$y, he purports to be single as of mid-2015.
Rappers
Hurricane Chris Net Worth
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
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.
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