# How did Dr. Dre get so rich

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 14, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472 "2014-05-14T22:03:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472/21 "2014-05-15T06:05:31Z")

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> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> Spam for Beats by Dre is probably in the top 10 spammers I get on the board I admin.

It’s invariably for cheap counterfeits. If you’ve found any spam that points to the real thing, I’d like to see it.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472/22 "2014-05-15T12:33:06Z")

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If the United States had a decent, single-payer universal hip-hop system, like other first world countries, these inflated doctor’s fees and profits would not occur.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472/23 "2014-05-15T13:59:51Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Dr. Dre doesn’t advertise himself like Puff Daddy (I’m still calling him that, I don’t care what he is called now) or have an endless line of consumer products like he does.

Puff Daddy went back to being Puff Daddy in March.

[http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/03/25/p-diddy-puff-daddy/](http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/03/25/p-diddy-puff-daddy/)

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**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472/24 "2014-05-15T14:00:03Z")

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He got 52 million for Aftermath records and makes millions from royalties. Most of his money is from the Beats headphone company. He made relatively little from NWA and not that much from Death Row records, but I am sure he still gets royalties.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472/25 "2014-05-16T04:42:12Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Puff Daddy went back to being Puff Daddy in March.
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> [Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher](http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/03/25/p-diddy-puff-daddy/)

Pfft. I think I’ve been calling him Sean “Puffy” Combs for most of the last thirteen years anyway.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-dr-dre-get-so-rich/688472/26 "2014-05-16T18:10:15Z")

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[Why he’s rich.](http://www.killthehydra.com/wp-content/uploads/beats-by-dre-gangster.jpg)

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