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It is a long way from the mean streets of south Los Angeles to becoming the world’s richest hip-hop star. But that is the path set by Andre Young — better known as Dr Dre — helped by some very cool headphones. The 49-year-old rapper turned producer and entrepreneur is likely to find himself atop Forbes’s hip-hop rich list after a $3 billion deal to sell Beats Electronics to Apple was confirmed Wednesday. “Hip-hop is now central to American popular culture,” Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University in New York state, told AFP recently.