American rapper,Mario”Yo Gotti” Mims previously known as Lil Yo has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Yo Gotti is among the many hardcore rappers who came out of hip-hop’s Dirty South school in the late ’90s.He is also one of the hip-hoppers who derive part of their stage names from the late New York mafioso John Gotti; others have included Big Gotti, Don Gotti, Juan Gotti, Bazooka Joe Gotti, and Irv Gotti. Not all Dirty South recordings are gangsta rap, but Yo Gotti has favored the thugged-out gangsta side of the Dirty South, and he gets his inspiration from both Southern and non-Southern rappers. Master P and his New Orleans-based No Limit posse are an influence; so are N.W.A., Dr. Dre, and the late Tupac Shakur. Gotti’s more sexually explicit lyrics also owe something to Oakland native Too Short, who was never a gangsta rapper but did a lot to popularize X-rated rap lyrics. Yo Gotti, however, isn’t from the West Coast any more than he is from New Orleans; his stomping ground is Memphis, the city that gave us the Three 6 Mafia, Gangsta Blac, Eightball & MJG, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, and quite a few other Dirty South artists.
After performing around Memphis in the ’90s, Gotti started building a catalog in the early 2000s. His first album, From da Dope Game 2 da Rap Game, came out on the Inevitable label in 2000; Gotti’s subsequent Inevitable releases included 2001’s Self Explanatory and 2002’s Block Burnin’, Vol. 1. After that, Gotti signed with TVT and recorded Life, which came out in 2003. TVT released “Dirty South Soldiers” (a duet with Atlanta crunk star Lil’ Jon) as Life’s first single. After having his track “Full Time” featured in the film Hustle & Flow, he released Back 2 da Basics in 2006. A series of Cocaine Muzik mixtapes carried the rapper to 2010 when his first major-label release, Live from the Kitchen, landed on J Records.
Born May 17, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2012 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from sales of his album I Am (156 thousand copies) |
$163,000 |
|
2012 |
Performance Fee |
Earnings per song in his performances |
$50,000 |
|
2011 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from sales of his album Live from the Kitchen (72 thousand copies) |
$75,000 |