New Delhi, March 11 -- Nearly twelve years after he boasted about it, Andre Romelle Young - known to the world as Dr Dre - has finally made it official. The 61-year-old rapper, producer and entrepreneur has been confirmed as a billionaire on Forbes' 2026 World Billionaires List, published on 10 March, joining 390 newcomers including Beyonce Knowles-Carter and tennis legend Roger Federer.

The recognition, long anticipated in music industry circles, vindicates a claim Dre made back in 2014 when, flush from the sale of his Beats headphone company to Apple, he told the world exactly what he thought. "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...