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Big Spending Nicki Minaj: I spend $50,000 on shoes monthly

Being Nicki Minaj is no joke. The 29-year-old rapper is as well-known for her Barbie-inspired costumes and cartoonish makeup as she is for her seven Top 20 songs — and it’s all a part of her act. Growing up in Queens, New York, the Trinidadian-born Minaj (born Onika Maraj) didn’t have much money or style.

But the story is completely different now, thanks to her success as an artist — her debut album, 2010’s Pink Friday, was nominated for four Grammys and won a Video Music Award and two American Music Awards.

Nicki can now confidently afford those things she only imagined as a kid without losing any sleep. When the money first started rolling in, she tells Vogue it was normalto drop $50,000 a month on “Giuseppe, Versace, YSL, and Fendi shoes. And she bought tons of Vuitton bags. “When you’re a young girl from Queens, you’re going to stock up on those bags.” Eventually, she discovered how to pair designer items “with other things.” For example, during that particular interview she sported a custom-bejeweled jacket from the Versace for H&M line.

Now that she’s achieved her dream of being one the biggest female rappers of all time, she wants to help other women realize their own goals. Minaj, who refers to her fans as her “little sisters,” says she is planning “an enormous foundation to nurture girls. The Nicki Minaj girl is a fun, artsy girl who can become a fierce force to be reckoned with on Wall Street! They hang on my every word, so I tell them, go to school, be ambitious. The worst position is to be financially dependent on the man.”

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