Nicki Minaj came onto the hip hop scene as a feisty female rapper with an outspoken style
and an attitude to boot.
The now 37-year-old was born Onika Tanya Maraj in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago.
When she was 5 years old, Nicki Minaj moved to Queens, New York with her family.
With a childhood filled with struggle, Nicki decided very early that she would become successful
to rise above the life of her childhood, and today, it’s pretty obvious that she kept
that promise to herself.
Her record label, Young Money, announced this year that she’s the first female rapper
to reach a net worth of $100,000,000, while other finance and business sites report that
she’s sitting at $80,000,000 or $85,000,000.
Whichever one it is, it’s more than enough to have her driving numerous cars like a Benz,
a Rolls Royce worth a whopping $450,000 and the now infamous cotton candy pink Lamborghini.
For Nicki Minaj, paying $35,000 in rent each month is not a hassle at all; in fact, she
did it for over a year.
And when it comes to what Nicki Minaj wears?
Well, she admitted that she might have had a bit of a spending problem in her early career
when she dropped about $50,000 a month on just accessories alone and now after giving
birth to her first ever baby with her husband Kenneth Petty on October, 1, 2020, I doubt
Nicki Minaj’s spending habits are going to change anytime soon.
Curious on what else Nicki Minaj spends her money on?
Well then we’ve got you covered.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the $100,000,000 Lifestyle of Nicki Minaj.
She doesn’t need much of an introduction.
Nicki Minaj is one of the most influential and well-known rappers of our time.
Although Nicki’s biggest claim to fame is her history as a trailblazing rapper, she’s
also a singer, actress and businesswoman.
She is known for her crazy alter egos, fierce lyrics and undeniable hits.
But when she was younger, she had something different in mind.
In the hopes of just becoming an actress, Nicki Minaj attended LaGuarda High School
of Music and Art in her teens.
When her acting career didn’t take off, she took on a couple of steady jobs, and got
fired from many of them for being rude to customers.
One of these jobs was waitressing at Red Lobster.
Eventually, Nicki started doing backup vocals for hip hop artists, and began writing her
own material in her free time.
She wanted real opinions from real people, so she started sharing her music on Myspace,
where she was discovered by Dirty Money CEO Fendi, and signed to his label.
Through this connection, Nicki Minaj met Lil Wayne, and worked with him on a series of
her own mixtapes.
The first of these was “PlayTime is Over”, which dropped back in 2007.
But it was her third mixtape, “Beam Me Up Scotty”, that really got people’s attention.
After working with her for a while, Lil Wayne signed Nicki Minaj to Young Money in 2009,
making her the label’s first solo female rapper.
A year later, she released her first single, Massive Attack, followed by Your Love, and
then her debut album, Pink Friday.
The album was a huge success, and went triple platinum.
Since then, Nicki Minaj has released 3 more studio albums and over 100 singles.
Her music career has yielded more than 100 notable awards including 6 American Music
Awards, 10 BET Awards, 4 Billboard Music Awards, 3 MTV Video Music Awards and 2 People's Choice
Awards.
She has also been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards.
In May 2017 Nicki Minaj made history when she overtook Aretha Franklin's record for
a number of songs on the Hot 100 for a female artist.
Aretha's record had stood for more than 40 years.
Then, in September 2019, she sent her fans into a frenzy when she announced that she
would be retiring from the industry to start a family.
The ‘retirement’ didn’t last very long, however, as Nicki continued to drop new music
and features soon after.
While she has definitely made her footprint in the cut throat world of hip hop, it’s
not her only source of income anymore.
She’s made millions of dollars from endorsement deals with brands like Pepsi, Nokia, Roberto
Cavalli, her line of 8 successful fragrances, acting and TV appearances.
According to Reuters, Minaj was reportedly paid $12 million for her time as a judge on
American Idol.
But if we focus on the music alone, it’s quite clear that this is what pays most of
her bills.
According to several online sources, it costs around $500,000 to book Nicki Minaj for a
show.
She also has more than 44 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which translates to
a hefty payout of more than $176,000 each month.
Apple Music reportedly has fewer listeners, so we can assume that her monthly streams
is around half what’s on Spotify, which means that Nicki Minaj could easily be earning
$110,000 a month on that platform.
Nicki also has a really solid presence on YouTube, which accumulates around 48,000,000
views per month which would make her about $144,000 a month.
Her total monthly earnings, if she were to maintain those kinds of streaming numbers
and perform twice a month, is around $1,430,000.
That’s more than $17,160,000 a year, $330,000 a week, and $47,142 a day.
Between 2010 and 2019, Nicki Minaj earned an impressive $156,000,000 before taxes.
She definitely knows how to make the most of the private circuit.
According to TMZ, she made $50,000 just for showing up at the 14th birthday of Floyd Mayweather’s
daughter.
Newsweek also reported that Nicki Minaj made between $300,000 and $500,000 for performing
at a Bar Mitzvah in 2015.
Going on tour has also been one of her most lucrative forms of income.
Back in 2015, Nicki Minaj's Pinkprint Tour topped the highest-grossing tours list that
year and it made $13 million, according to AXS.
She also dabbles in investing, and purchased a 3% stake in Jay-Z's Tidal music streaming
service.
Forbes reports the streaming service is worth an estimated $600 million.
With millions of dollars sitting in the bank, Nicki Minaj has virtually no barriers when
it comes to acquiring the things that make her life luxurious.
In August 2016, Nicki Minaj and her now ex boyfriend Meek Mill rented a mansion in Beverly
Hills for $35,000 a month; once they broke up, Meek Mill moved out and she had the house
all to herself until she moved out in 2018.
The home was built in 2008 on the site of Frank Sinatra's former residence.
The 10,340 square foot home has panoramic views of the city and mountains.
The house features a two-story foyer, a large living room with a fireplace, and arched French
doors leading outside.
There's an eat-in kitchen, a wood-lined library, a formal dining room, and a family room, as
well as eight bedrooms.
The outdoor space includes a swimming pool, spa, a barbecue and a 5-car garage, where
Nicki probably kept her enviable collection of cars.
Perhaps the most well-known of Nicki Minaj’s cars is her matte, cotton candy pink Lamborghini
Aventador Roadster, which she got in 2013.
The originally blue Lambo underwent a $30,000 customization, thanks to Exotic Euro Cars,
West Coast Wrapperz and Forgiato.
The supercar is powered by a 6.5L V12 that produces 691hp with a top speed of 218mph
and a 0-60 time of 2.9 seconds.
It cost an estimated $400,000.
You’d think that one bright pink car is enough, but not for the Pink Friday rapper.
Nicki Minaj also has a pink Bentley Continental GT, with 500 horsepower coming from its W12
engine.
The Barbie Bentley might have looked soft because of its bubblegum pink color, but it
was certainly a beast in reality.
Before customization, Nicki Minaj parted with around $230,000 for the Bentley.
In February 2019, the rapper copped a 2019 Rolls Royce Cullinan valued at over $450,000.
In a video posted by Nicki Minaj herself, she shows us that she’s chosen a black Rolls
with red interior.
She also had the interior customized with a black mink rug that costs between $2,000
and $3,000, and a refrigerator in the back that holds up to two bottles of champagne
for somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000.
In the caption of the video, Nicki Minaj said she would be adding stars to the ceiling,
which would cost around $20,000.
She also toyed with the idea of wrapping the car in pink like her old Lamborghini.
These are probably only a few of her rides, and they’re already worth a total of $1,080,000.
Since Nicki Minaj has gone relatively quieter over the years, we can only imagine what cars
she’s driving around in at the stage of her career.
Nicki Minaj certainly puts a lot of effort, and money, into driving her cars, and the
same can be said when it comes to dressing herself.
In a 2012 interview with Vogue, Nicki Minaj spoke about how important accessories are
to her.
She admitted she used to spend thousands of dollars so she could accessorize.
She told the magazine she used to spend about $50,000 a month on “Giuseppe, Versace, YSL,
and Fendi shoes”.
Nicki also had a seemingly insatiable addiction to Louis Vuitton bags.
She’s a fan of diamonds, too, having worn $2,000,000 worth of them at the 2017 VMA’s.
In an Instagram post, Nicki Minaj said that the necklace she wore was worth $1,000,000.
In addition to the choker, she wore three diamond chains, huge diamond hoop earrings,
several rings, and a collection of bangles on her arms.
But nowadays, she claims that she’s no longer a big spender, and being from a tough background
means that she’s always looking for opportunities to give back.
In an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres show, Nicki Minaj said that when she spends money
on herself, it doesn’t feel worthwhile.
But when she gets the chance to give to those who need it most, she feels really good.
One of those feel good moments was when Nicki Minaj announced that she had bought all her
close friends their own Range Rovers, something she says they were very excited about.
She is also known for paying off her fans’ college tuitions.
Nicki Minaj had an impromptu session on Twitter in 2017, in which she ended up paying for
over 30 students’ college expenses.
This led her to starting her Student of the Game College Fund, which gave fans the opportunity
to have their college expenses paid off by Nicki Minaj herself.
In order to enter, fans had to prove that they were A students in order for Nicki Minaj
to cover expenses that included tuition, books and living expenses.
If there’s one message that Nicki Minaj has always stood by, it’s “stay in school”.
Now during the recording of this video, it was just reported by TMZ that Nicki Minaj
has just given birth to her first ever child with her husband Kenneth Petty.
The name and gender of the baby is unknown but regardless, congratulations to her.
If there’s one thing you can take away from this video is the fact that Nicki Minaj’s
baby is going to live one luxurious life.
Well there you have it, the entire $100,000,000 Lifestyle of Nicki Minaj in one single YouTube
Video.
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