Yo Gotti has stated that he has been enrolled in classes at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management since December of last year.
In an interview published on Forbes, the rapper said that Jay-Z was the one who inspired him to go back into the classroom.
Gotti makes money from CMG Music Group, which records Moneybagg Yo, GloRilla, and Blac Youngsta. Apart from his career as a rapper, he also owns a small stake in the Major League Soccer team, D.C. United and a restaurant Prive in Memphis.
Part of Yo Gotti’s $100 million empire came from Jay-Z, who did much more than just give the devil’s deal of “$500K or dinner with Jay-Z?”
Even though Gotti had never graduated from college, the rapper said in the interview with Forbes that he was inspired to pursue his education by the way the hip-hop billionaire had handled himself over the years.
Yo Gotti disclosed that he had been studying corporate valuation and other business principles at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management since December 2023.
He stated, “I might want to acquire another company or buy one. Therefore, in addition to listening to financial experts, I’m making sure I’m supertight—and understand the language and the verbiage myself.”
Jay-Z himself provided a quote to Forbes regarding his mentee’s advancement, complimenting his business acumen and stating that it’s “clearly evident in each and every action [Gotti] takes, defying the conventional notion of an executive.”
Yo Gotti, whose estimated net worth is $100 million, has quietly amassed quite a financial empire.
He told the magazine, “I’m financially straight if I never write another rap.” “That’s what my entire career was building toward.
Yo Gotti has built such an empire, in part, by abstaining from wasteful spending. Gotti explained his decision not to fly private in an interview from the previous summer, saying that he thinks there are better uses for his hard-earned money.
“I don’t even fly private,” he declared on the Big Boy’s Neighborhood radio program in Los Angeles. “It’s beyond my means. I keep my paper and fly first class. Up here, I can’t afford it [in my mind].
Yo Gotti continued by describing 42 Dugg as one of his artistes who travels the nation in strict privacy. Despite his disapproval of the private jet lifestyle, Gotti is unafraid to ensure that his artistes have access to the finest modes of transportation; last July, he gave GloRilla a brand-new Maybach SUV for her 24th birthday.