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Nicki Minaj ($80 million)

Nicki Minaj has been around longer than you think she’s been. Minaj was born in 1982 in Trinidad and came to NYC when she was just 5 years old. Minaj got discovered by Lil Wayne and released her first mixtape in 2008. She followed up with another in 2009 and was featured in XXL magazine the same year. Since then she has released 4 studio albums, landed second on the Billboard charts twice, and has done dozens of features on some high performing singles. Minaj is one of the few people on this list to have an album go platinum, and she is worth the $80 million she’s made in her career. 

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