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        <title><![CDATA[Kanye West bickers with Forbes via text over billionaire status]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Forbes</strong> magazine has finally confirmed <strong>Kanye West</strong>&#8216;s billionaire status, but according to the musician, they still shorted him on his actual net-worth.</p><p>Editors at the money mag claim West, 42, took issue with his published <strong>$1.3 billion estimate,</strong> texting staffers that apparently don&#8217;t know &#8220;how to count&#8221; that his net-worth is actually closer to 3.3 billion, according to Forbes&#8217; Zack O&#8217;Malley Greenburg.</p><p>The senior editor wrote that the &#8220;I Am a God&#8221; rapper messaged the team of money-crunchers, “It’s not a billion. It’s $3.3 billion since no one at Forbes&nbsp;knows how to count.”</p><p>Forbes began re-assessing West&#8217;s numeric value after the mogul lodged several complaints over not being featured on their billionaires list, like sister-in-law <strong>Kylie Jenner</strong>, who was recently named the <strong>world&#8217;s youngest self-made billionaire</strong> for the <strong>second year in row</strong>.</p><p>During an appearance at the 2019 Fast Company Innovation Festival, West stated that he should have been listed as a billionaire on Forbes&#8217; Hip-Hop Cash Kings list, telling the crowd, &#8220;When I did Forbes, I showed them a $890 million receipt and they still didn’t say ‘billionaire..&#8217;&#8221;</p><p>The Chicago native even accused the publication of being &#8220;a part of a group of media&#8221; attempting to &#8220;suppress his self-made narrative because of his race.&#8221;</p><p>This week, West instructed his own staff to send Forbes paperwork that the company deemed an &#8220;authentic numeric look into Kanye, Inc.&#8221; After assessing the numbers — including both Yeezy&#8217;s assets and debts — a $1.3 billion estimate was given to the rapper&#8217;s chagrin.</p><p>Forbes also revealed that they often implement a rule inspired by West&#8217;s hero, President Trump, to assure their estimates are as accurate as possible.</p><p>&#8220;For years, Forbes had an informal &#8216;Trump rule&#8217; — take whatever the [then]future president insisted he was worth, divide by three, and start honing from there,&#8221; Greenberg wrote. &#8220;Like mentor, like mentee.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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