Net Worth:	$75 Million
Age:	36
DOB:	December 8, 1982
Country of Origin:	Trinidad & Tobago
Occupation:	Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Model, Actress
Years Active:	2004–present
Last Updated:	Jan 2019

Onika “Nicki Minaj” Tanya Maraj born on the 8th of December 1982 is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, model, and actress. She was born in Trinidad but raised in Queens, New York City, New York.

Before she got signed to Young Money Entertainment in 2009, she released mixtapes such as Playtime Is Over (2007), Sucka Free (2008), and Beam Me Up Scotty (2009) which got people’s eyes and ears stuck on her sound.

Nicki Minaj has achieved tremendous success in her career and has been blessed with awards including 6 American Music Awards, 11 BET Awards, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, 4 Billboard Music Awards, a Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award, and 10 Grammy Award nominations.

She is the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously on the Billboard 100 chart.

Nicki Minaj’s networth as of 2018 is $75 Million dollars. She is one of the most influential female rappers of all time and has played a key role in influencing other female artists. Nicki Minaj is sort of a perfectionist and unlike most artists who release albums every year, she keeps a gap between her albums to ensure they come out with a bang.

List of Nicki Minaj’s Albums;

• Pink Friday (2010)
• Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012)
• The Pinkprint (2014)
• Queen (2018)

Early Life.

Nicki Minaj was born on December 8, 1982, in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. Little Minaj lived with her Grandmother in Trinidad before her mother moved the whole family to NewYork to attend Monroe College.

Her father was an alcoholic and had other drugs issues, he even burnt down their house in December 1987 due to his hot temperedness. Nicki Minaj has always had love for theater, after graduating from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan, New York, she got a role to play in the Off-Broadway play In Case You Forget in 2001.

Growing up with a drug addict of a father with history of violence, Nicki always wanted to do better for her mother! She can be quoted saying “because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn’t be. I thought, ‘If I’m successful, I can change her life.”. Growing up, she invented different personas such as “Cookie”, “Harajuku Barbie” before she finally settled with Nicki Minaj with the sole aim of being able to re-invent herself, this can be heard in her music.

Nicki Minaj had a hard time keeping jobs. She was fired about 15 times for reasons related to discourtesy to customers. and actually worked as a waitress at a Red Lobster in the Bronx.

Nicki Minaj’s Career.

Nicki started making music way back in 2004 and her mixtapes opened doors for her to get signed to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment.

She signed with Brooklyn group Full Force for less than a year, and her 4 people group was called “The Hood$tars” which had her ex boyfriend Safaree as a member. When she left the label, she decided to upload her songs to her Myspace account and send the links to people in the music industry. Dirty Money CEO Fendi came accross her Myspace, listened, liked what he heard and signed her to his label Dirty Money Entertainment for a 180-day contract.

Her contract with Dirty Money Entertainment led her to meeting Lil Wayne. He featured on her mixtapes Playtime is Over, Sucka Free and Beam Me Up Scotty before later signing her to Young Money Entertainment in 2009. Her track “I Get Crazy” (from the Beam Me Up Scotty album) reached number 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart and number 37 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

In 2010, she released her first album “Pink Friday” under Young Money Entertainment. The album debuted number-two on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 375,000 copies. Pink Friday got her nominated for three(3) Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album.

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After the success of her first album, Nicki went back to the kitchen to cook some new bangers for her second studio album ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’. One of the first singles off the album was “Starships”, the song reached number-five on the Billboard Hot 100, and went on to become the fifth best-selling single of 2012.

She released other singles and when the album was released, it debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 253,000 copies.

In between releasing top charting music, Nicki ensured she still tapped into her childhood love for acting, she recorded the voice of mammoth Steffie in 2012’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, made her movie debut on The Other Woman, she also received a Teens Choice Award 2016 nomination for her role in Barbershop: The Next Cut.

Before she released her third studio album Pink Print, she released lead single “Pills n Portions”  and second single “Anaconda” which peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her highest-charting single in the U.S. to date. Pink Print was released in December 2014 and reached number two on the US Billboard 200, with first week sales of 244,000 overall units.

In August 2018, about 4 years after releasing her last album. Nicki Minaj released her album titled “Queen”. Her lead single “Chun-Li” was certified platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Before the release of her album, she featured on Tekashi 6ix9ine “Fefe” which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100^. Nicki’s feature on “Fefe” marked her highest bow on the Hot 100 chart as a featured artist.

Today, Nicki Minaj’s net worth is $75 million.

Nicki Minaj’s Media Section

Inspiring Quotes from Nicki Minaj.

“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition”. – Nicki Minaj

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“People will love and support you when it’s beneficial.” – Nicki Minaj

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“True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know you are great, you have no need to hate.” – Nicki Minaj

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“Life is a movie, but there will never be a sequel” – Nicki Minaj

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“I don’t agree that everyone should agree with everyone’s lifestyle. I think that some people aren’t going to agree, but I think that when you’re mean and when you ridicule people it’s a sign of your own insecurities.” – Nicki Minaj

Rounding up.

Nicki Minaj is one of the most influentual female rappers of all time, with a current net worth of $75 million, this figure is going to go up before the end of 2018 with her newly released album “Queen”, endorsement deals with brands like Mercedez Benz and her new show on Beats 1 “Queen Radio”.

Shine on Queen!

When you think of the words “The Greatest,” only one name comes to mind, Muhammad Ali. Ali was not only regarded as the greatest boxer of all-time but also one of the most significant figures of the 20^th century.

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky as Cassius Clay, and began training to be an amateur boxer when he was only 12 years old. Legend has it that young Clay took up the sweet science of pugilism because he was being bullied.

At the age of 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He would turn professional later that year and convert to Islam in 1961. At the age of 22, in 1964, he won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in a major upset. He then changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his “slave name”, to Muhammad Ali. He would be the most recognizable member of the Nation of Islam alongside their national minister Malcolm X.

After successfully defending his heavyweight title for two straight years, Ali was drafted by the U.S. Government to enlist in the Vietnam War. Unlike his predecessor Joe Louis, Ali refused to be drafted citing his opposition to the Vietnam War based on religious reasons. He was eventually arrested, found guilty of draft evasion charges, and stripped of his boxing titles. After a four-year fight and losing out on his peak years as a fighter, he successfully appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction in 1971. Ali’s stance as a conscientious objector made him a hero in the anti-war movement and counterculture generation.

Ali would go on to win the heavyweight title on two more occasions being the first to accomplish the feat. His boxing matches with Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton, and Leon Spinks are still some of the best fights in the history of boxing.

Muhammad Ali was the most famous person in the world during his lifetime. He was honored with every award imaginable. He life was the focus of thousands of books and feature films. He was simply the greatest.

After a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali joined the ancestors on June 3, 2016.

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Grant Cardone is a real estate mogul, sales beast and named the #1 marketer to watch in 2017 by Forbes Magazine. At 60 years old, he is one of the oldest entrepreneur with a massive and active impact on social media. Grant Cardone urges his followers and clients to make success their duty, responsibility, obligation, and to rise above outdated, unworkable middle class myths and limitations in order to achieve true freedom for themselves and their families. He is the 10x man!

Below are three (3) Secret of Grant Cardone success as explained by him.

Grant Cardone’s Secret To Success.

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#1. Set 10x Goals.

Let’s say your goal is to make 1 million, Grant’s advice here is to aim to make 10 million and if you do fail in making 10 million and you end up making less, guess what? You will be making 1 million or more anyways. So, set higher and bigger goals. This mindset is very true and important to grasp.

When you set small goals and you fail to meet them, that might be an outright failure but when you set bigger goals, even your failure is a win! This concept of setting really bigger goals and audacious goals helps to stretch what you believe is possible.

A lot of the times, we are conservative in our goal setting process. It’s one of those better-safe-than-sorry type of scenarios whereby you’d rather reach a goal with ease than challenging yourself to see what’s even possible. The reason we and people do this is because we would rather like to reach a small goal and feel successful than fall short of a wildly ambitious stretched goal.

No matter what aspect of your life you want to achieve success in, be it in personal achievement, professional accomplishments, social status or financial results, when you allow yourself to think 10 times what you deem okay to achieve, you are pushing yourself to think bigger and come up with ideas and plans that pushes you to attain such heights.

To grow exponentially, the 10x thinking and mindset is one you must have.

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#2. Stop All Poverty Behaviors

Mindset and behavior is everything.

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If you continue to indulge in poverty behaviors, you will remain poor. Here is a list of some “poverty behavior”: Indulging in drugs, abusing the use of alcohol, Spending and not investing, wasting weekends, depending on the government, always looking for shortcuts, having a victim mentality, not reading and educating yourself, refusing to network or travel and more!

If you notice, most people who are poor and have the poverty mindset have similar behaviors. They are always pointing at someone else other than themselves as the reason why they are poor or here they are at the moment. They have hour long arguments with peers on how the government is laundering all the money and how the rich are getting richer by the day. They complain, waste time and energy on things that they have zero power on or over.

The aim here is to do the opposite of what they do – spend more time educating yourself, spend less times partying every weekend (I need to this myself), stay away from drugs and alcohol abuse and choose healthy living instead because you can only become and enjoy riches with a sound mind, stay away from the victim mentality as well, spend more time placing yourself in places and locations where you build your network and also experience new things.

By all means, aim to stop all poverty behaviors and start behaving like the person you dream about and want to become.

#3. Pay Attention to The Money.

There is always going to be an argument about if money equals success. Regardless of what side of the fence you are on, money will always be an important aspect of our lives and will always be an element of success.

Grant Cardone’s advice is to pay attention to the money and ways to earn it. Being a touchy subject, most people do not like talking about money, they believe money is the root of all evil, so they shy away from money conversations and situations.

In order to be successful, it is important to learn skills, get information, acquire knowledge and pay attention to how you can make money with your skill, talent or service. Always pay attention to the money!

Conclusion.

You’ve just read Grant Cardone’s top 3 tips and rules for success. The first was to set bigger goals (ideally 10x what you would love to achieve), then you should stop all poverty behaviors and lastly pay attention to the money.

Lets go! Let’s whoop 2019 ass!