If we learned anything from the 2005 film “Hustle & Flow,” it’s that hustlin’ ain’t easy. Rappers, actors and pool sharks everywhere can attest to this fact.

Urban Dictionary defines the act of hustling as “havin’ the ambition and drive to do everything and anything to make mad money.”

For ages, men have claimed to be on top of the hustling game. Lil Wayne, Fast Eddie Felson and Rick Ross have tried to claim the title of the world’s greatest hustler, but that title goes to someone completely different.

Judith “Judge Judy” Sheindlin has spent the last 15 years running the reality-court room-drama game, and what does she have to show for it? A net worth of over $95 million and a freshly-inked contract for $45 million a year. That, my friends, is a hustler.

Last month, Judy was hospitalized after fainting on the set of her program. Just one month later, she signed on to make the show for three more years. Most celebrities would take a break from work to relax and recover. Not Judy. She leaves the hospital and gets back to work.

Judy may not have tricked someone out of a bunch of money in a high stakes billiards game or run a multimillion-dollar cocaine empire, but she did create a lasting TV franchise and revitalized the almost non-existent market for reality-based courtroom dramas.

Over the course of just a few years, Judy went from being a family appeals judge, known for her no-nonsense attitude and biting wit, to becoming the host of the most-watched daytime television show in the United States.

Since debuting in 1996, Judy has consistently produced around 260 episodes of the program per year, which, when you do the math, thank you Math 1312, adds up to around 5,000 episodes — a number that can only be rivaled by daytime soaps like “All My Children.” Now, that show is out of the picture. Yet the judge still presides, and every day, she’s hustlin’.