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Forbes has released their annual ’30 Under 30′ list and its accompanying cover, and it features some of our favorites in music, entertainment, sports, media and more!

Not only did A$AP Rocky make the list, but he landed the cover as well, representing as the only member of the hip-hop community on there! Kudos! Some other familiar names (for our readers) featured on the list include Kehlani, Fetty Wap, ScHoolboy Q, Rae Sremmurd, The Weeknd, Straight Outta Compton‘s Corey Hawkins, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Jason Mitchell (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E, respectively), Bryshere Gray (Hakeem Lyon on Empire), Pete Davidson (SNL), Steph Curry, Boi-1da, Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar’s manager Dave Free, TDE engineer MixedByAli, TheShadeRoom’s founder Angelica Nwandu and more.

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These names came from an initial screening list of more than 15,000, being narrowed down to 600 women and men. Per Forbes, the process to choosing each power player is as follows:

“We look at thousands of candidates from 20 different categories and consider their game-changing quotient along various dimensions, such as impact, use of cutting edge technology or creativity, scalability or adaptability, number of people reached and dollars raised/generated. There are no repeats from years past.”

Congrats to everyone featured! Head here to check out the full list.