Nicki Minaj ‘An Icon’ - Lil Wayne Writes

TIME magazine gave those close to the influencers the opportunity to write about them.
Lil Wayne wrote a short essay about the Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj being honored by TIME magazine as one of the most influential artistes of 2016:

“You know, in New York they used to have these street DVDs,” Weezy wrote. “It just so happened that I appeared in one, and when I looked at the finished product, Nicki Minaj was on a part of the DVD. I was like, ‘Woooooow!’ She was just being Nicki without the glitz and glamour. When I heard the first two and four bars, it wasn’t even about her rapping better than any female rapper. It was about, man, she’s rapping better than other rappers—period.”
“I always wanted more for my artists and saw Nicki’s potential from the first moment I laid eyes on her,” Wayne wrote. “She’s reached far beyond everything I would have imagined. Man, she’s so influential and doing all the right things. She’s an icon, a boss and a role model to all these young girls out here on how to do it the right way. Her work ethic speaks volumes and has yielded these results. The scary thing is she’s still going. Ha! Nicki Minaj will go down as one of the best to do it in the history of music.”

World leaders on the 100 most influential list

A list of the world’s most influential people has been revealed by the Time magazine. According to the editor of the magazines the names on the list “have the power to make us think”.
The list of the world leaders on the 100 most influential list below:
Kim Jong Un
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Vladimir Putin
Paul Ryan
Diana Natalicio
Lori Robinson
Lester Holt
Queen Máxima
Ted Cruz
François Hollande
Darren Walker
James Comey
Raghuram Rajan
Hillary Clinton
Aung San Suu Kyi
Sergio Moro
Justin Trudeau
Xi Jinping
Barack Obama
Mauricio Macri
Jaha Dukureh
Reince Priebus
Tsai Ing-wen
Sean MacFarland
Bernie Sanders
Nikki Haley
Jin Liqun
Donald Trump
Angela Merkel
John Kerry
Christine Lagarde

How Time Magazine editors pick the 100 Most Influential People in the world

According to Time Magazine, ‘There are all sorts of yardsticks for measuring influence:
Donald Trump’s 5.9 million Google News mentions in the past year, Adele’s 64.8 million Facebook likes, the records shattered by Usain Bolt on foot, Lewis Hamilton on wheels, Katie Ledecky in the pool, Stephen Curry on the court.
‘To capture what sets the honorees apart, we reached out to people who watched them rise, knew them when, understand firsthand the opportunities they seized and the obstacles they overcame.
‘The people on the list, each in their own way, have lessons to teach. We can debate those lessons; we don’t have to endorse them or agree with them. But the influence of this year’s TIME 100 is that down to the last person, they have the power to make