 All right. So you're here because you want to hear about four brands that made Jay-Z millions. I'm glad you're here then. Let's get to it. Best investment advice that you ever received. What was it? Do you remember whether it was in the market or just investing in life and in business? I think just doing things that you believe in, things that you understand. I think that's the best investment. I heard Warren Buffett say that just the other day and I just innately felt that just investing things that you understand. As it turns out Jay-Z's investment in JetSmarter was not his first rodeo with ride-sharing companies. In fact, he was making some serious moves to not only get in on Uber, but secure himself alone. Hold on now. Just in case you haven't heard of JetSmarter because I frankly remember something about it. Then I did a little bit of research and I found out that JetSmarter actually turned into Fly XO, which is like a ride share for a private plane and that recently got sold. I believe they were having some lawsuits or things like that. If you want, you can look that up on your own time. I'm not going to throw any disparaging remarks about the God Mogul. By the way, since you're here, go ahead and like and subscribe. Like, subscribe. Leave a comment below. Do you remember JetSmarter and what actually happened with that lawsuit with Fly XO? Let us know down in the comments below. But yeah, let's get back to it. We're on Uber right now. It was a pretty baller move and it still turned out fine for him. Today, that $2 million investment is worth around $70 million. That's a 35-fold return. I bet he wishes they would have accepted that extra money he sent as that would have been an extra $100 million added to his net worth. 3. Tidal One of Jay-Z's more well-known brands, although no one is exactly sure what for, was when he invested in Tidal, a music streaming platform that was intended to be an artist-friendly service. Partially owned by artists such as Kanye West, Calvin Harris, and of course, Hove's wife, Beyonce, bought for $56 million in 2015. 4. Big Celebrity Brands Influencer Brands And when you have that type of black book, man, especially when something that they can all eat with, such as a streaming service, you can do some ill things. I could imagine what the backroom conversations was. Just use your imagination. Alright, let's get back to it. Why? Why you don't know why? It's one of the biggest brands. Isn't that crazy? Tidal saw some shaky media coverage and odd quirks, but Jay-Z was still able to establish the platform as a voice in the highly competitive streaming market. What's more, he flipped the initial investment for $200 million only two years later, selling a 33% stake in the company to cell phone provider Sprint in early 2017. This venture now represents $100 million in Jay-Z's net worth, a healthy 10%. He still retains his share of the ownership to this day, and for its part, Sprint provided Tidal for free to its 45 million retail customers. Pretty sweet deal if you're on Sprint, but against Apple Music or Spotify, I don't see much of a comparison myself. Some accusations of an ethical activity have been made against the company, like that it faked over 300 million streams to inflate Kanye West and Beyonce's album sales numbers. But that hasn't stopped Jay from cashing in on the trend of streaming services. 2. Doucet Rappers and beverage lines go hand-in-hand. 50 cents Vitamin Water, Diddy's Vodka, Sirach, and Jay is not the exception to that rule. He invested in multiple beverage lines, which he helped cultivate and grow, eventually becoming a large portion of his net worth. One of his first ventures into the line of alcohol was when he became the owner of the 4040 Club, a chain of high-end sports bars started in New York City. Moving past this, he went on to develop his own brand of cognac, Doucet, which he co-owns with alcohol giant Bacardi. Doucet is growing at a rapid pace, moving over 200,000 cases of cognac annually and stocked in thousands of stores across the United States. The venture proved to be very lucrative for him, representing $100 million of his net worth. 1. Armand de Brignac Another wildly successful venture for Jay-Z is his champagne brand known as Armand de Brignac Champagne, and one of the biggest purchases of his financial career. Jay-Z bought the brand in 2014 for $200 million. No, I didn't say that wrong. He dropped the brand $200 million in what was probably the biggest flex any rapper has ever made. Now I'm gonna say something about this. First, there's two things. Two things we gotta think about. He's selling a, can you call that a commodity? He's selling an item. We're just gonna say he's gonna sell an item. He's selling something that's perishable. When I say perishable, I mean that it, well actually I am saying it disappears. You consume it and it's gone. You have to get more to have something. That's an awesome thing to get into. Not like my nine to five kilo pack, which you buy once and I just keep expanding the value. You purchase one and you can find that down below if you don't know what that is. But he sells it and you gotta keep coming back. But also he goes the second beautiful thing about the do say and the ace. You also heard him mention that brand 4040, right? Now these are high end sports bars that you, it'd be safe to say serve taste makers, right? People that move the needle when it comes to swag and it's just like, you know what I'm saying? Like on the block, you know what I'm saying? You see somebody, they got the, they got the fresh wheels or they got that fresh drink or whatever and it's something like platinum jewelry or whatever. You're like, well, they got it. That taste maker influences others to get involved with brands. They wear the polo, you wear the polo. They wear they wear the, the frockwear, you wear the rockwear. They drink the ace, you drink the ace. They drink the crystal, you drink the crystal, right? So he has 4040 who, who serves the taste makers. So he has 4040, you know what I'm saying? You were like, so you, hopefully the bartenders are saying you drank that do say yet and you're like, no, I ain't drink that. You drink that ace of spade yet? No, I ain't drink that ace of spade yet. Well, have some might even give you some on the house, depending on who you are, how big your brand is, how long your influence is and you tasting, you're like, wow, that was delicious. That was fantastic. Let me get three or four more. They're like, yes, we got you. We got you. Then you go to your peoples, your network and you show them this brand new product you just had, just gold, this beautiful gold bottle, ace of spade. Like, yo, look, Jay, you said, we're not even drinking, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, Chris down the moment. We drink it ace of spade. Look at this gold bottle. Just drank sexy dog. Look at this belly. It's sexy dog. Look at this do say it's sexy dog. It tastes delicious. It's a heck of a marketing plan. It's genius. Telling of his genius. Think about it for a little bit. Think about it. You know what I'm saying? What's your opinion? By the way, you think that was a genius move? Do you think 4040 had any influence on how big and fast those brands, those brands grew and not to mention again, his network, that black book going to work. Like man, let's not even forget about his own music. Like for real, his music, I don't even think he even thinks about the music as far as like generating an income with about like record sales or whatever. I think he thinks about his music as just like really like marketing material. Think about it. Think about it. Marketing material. It could give us about the record sales. Like when he's saying, yeah, I tap out. I'm not going to do any music or whatever. I guarantee you every single like he might not be every single album, but I guarantee you on the whole project as a whole, you're probably going to hear about promotion for three or different about two to three different things that he's marketing. It's marketing, baby. It ain't music for him no more. It's like the record sales. What? That's my ad spend. His ad spend is paying for itself. It's genius, man. It's genius. Hold the monster, man. Let's get back to it. Jay-Z has been involved with the brand for much longer. Having rep the golden bottle champagne in the 2006 music video for show me what you got. Since that initial investment, the Armand de Brignac brand is now worth $310 million of Jay-Z's total net worth. It is easily his most successful venture and accounts for over 30% of his net worth. Imagine having $300 million and it isn't even half of your net worth. Pretty crazy, right? Especially for a guy who grew up in one of the most dangerous housing projects in New York. Other big money makers for the rap mogul include around $50 million in real estate, $75 million in rock nation, which is his entertainment company that manages many high profile names such as Rihanna, Meek Mill and Megan Thee Stallion, and around $75 million in his own music catalog. With $1 billion to his name, Jay-Z can rightfully claim the throne as the best hustler to ever do it. At least in hip hop. Do you guys think any rapper will have a net worth that surpasses Jay-Z's? Let us know in the comments section below. Something's wrong with you, man. Something's wrong with you, really. And if you're a music artist and you ain't doing this yourself or you're positioning yourself like this, something's wrong with you, man. You need to have some more products than just your music, like a digital product like I got the Nine and Five Killer Pack. It's down below. You could check that. You know what I'm saying? This has a couple different things. Right now, I believe we're going to add like 20 tracks that you can use for background vocals or beat background music for your videos. If you want to make a no-face video, if you want to use just to make music, if you do make music with us, please send us the music. So maybe we can review it and put it out to our audience and let you get some shine, some free promotion, you know what I'm saying? Leverage network, dawg, network. And what else we're going to add to it? We're going to add some YouTube stingers there so you can have your subscribe now and all this. You ain't got to pay for it. You just pay one time for the Nine and Five Killer Pack. You know what I'm saying? You can use those subscribers, put them together with the music that we're going to give you. Make you some no-face Cash Cow videos. Make you some money, man. And plus, there's 100 plus, you know what I'm saying? You'll see if you want more information below. But definitely, if you're a music artist, have you some other things to distribute and monetize besides just the music? And in my humble opinion, make it something digital, something where your cost to create it is very low, but your returns can be infinite. Infinite, all right? So yeah, that's it. Those are the four products that made Jay-Z millions. Yeah, what do you think about it? I'm waiting here for you. Easy.