Nearly a dozen years after he declared himself “hip-hop’s first billionaire,” it seems Dr. Dre finally is one, according to Forbes’ 2026 Billionaires list. “They need to update the Forbes list, shit just changed,” Dre said in May of 2014, after he and Jimmy Iovine sold their Beats by Dre business to Apple for $3 billion (which was eventually merged into Apple Music). However, it’s a very long list — and a vivid demonstration of the vast earnings gap between the 1% and the rest of the world —