Nicki Minaj (December 8, 1982) rapper, songwriter, and model. She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Dubbed the ” Queen of Rap ” by various media outlets, Minaj is one of themost influential and best-selling female artists of all time , with 137 million records sold all over the world.
She has received praise for her lively rapping, her versatility as an artist, and her songwriting that uses metaphors , puns , and puns .
Nicki Minaj Biography
She was baptized Tanya Maraj Onika. Her family moved to Queens, New York. They specifically lived in the neighborhood populated by Jamaicans. Her father, Robert Maraj, worked as a financial executive, although music was also very important to him, in his spare time he worked as a gospel music singer.
Her mother, Carol Maraj, like her husband, was a gospel music singer of African descent. Although her mother also dedicated herself to working in accounting departments. The family situation was not very good, her father was a drug addict and an alcoholic, and this generated strong fights between her parents. One day she tried to burn down the house.
For a time Minaj and her siblings lived with their grandmother in St. James while their mother attended Monroe University. As a little girl she attended Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School, where she learned to play the clarinet. She auditioned for singing at La Guardia High School in Manhattan, but didn’t make it.
She though she was selected for acting and she participated in the drama program. After her graduation, Minaj was in an off-Broadway play called In Case You Forget in 2001. But she then had to get a job as a waitress for the Red Lobster seafood chain in The Bronx.
She didn’t last long there, because of his behavior, and he didn’t work in other jobs either. He held various jobs as an administrative assistant, customer service, and as an office manager for a Wall Street firm.
She then began to find a way to break into music. So, he made his first mixtape: Playtime Is Over (2007). He had a collaboration with Lil Wayne appeared on the song Ca n’t Stop, Wo n’t Stop.
The following year, she released his mixtape Sucka Free. Her style and her music was very attractive that’s why she was called to appear in the July issue of XXL magazine. Minaj later won the Female Artist of the Year award at the Underground Music Awards. She released Beam Me Up Scotty (2009).
Nicki Minaj Career
She was signed by Young Money Entertainment and owned their rights: merchandising, endorsements, tours, and publishing. She released the album Pink Friday on November 19, 2010, plus a promotional single.
In August, Minaj released Your Love as the first official single from her debut album. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and topped the Rap Songs charts.
Minaj became the first female artist to be on MTV’s annual list, MTV’s Annual Hottest MC and also the first artist to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. Minaj’s most successful single to date in Europe Minaj released a single was alongside The Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am titled Check It Out.
She released other singles, another very popular one was: Moment 4 Life. The track features Canadian rapper Drake, it was a hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The single peaked at number 5 on the Rap Songs chart, the album was certified platinum in the US weeks later. She was in the Colombian capital in 2011 where she recorded a single, shortly after she was invited to Saturday Night Live.
At the time, Pink Friday reached number one on the Billboard 200 in week eleven. She opened for Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale Tour. She also appeared on the official Till the World Ends remix, alongside Spears and singer Ke$ha.
She sang Super Bass at the annual “Billboard Music Awards”, critics described the performance as “memorable” Pink Friday was the best-selling album in the United States: 2,020,000 copies, being the third best-selling album by an artist female hip-hop artist in the country’s history.
Due to the above, and her important productions, Nicki Minaj according to Billboard, Mtv, Rolling Stone and Forbes is considered the “Queen of rap”, and one of the most influential rappers of the 21st century. She assures that she is very grateful with life and that her music is influenced by artists such as Lisa Lopes, Lil Wayne, Lauryn Hill, Jadakiss, Natasha Bedingfield, Foxy Brown and Missy Elliott.
Minaj has signed contracts with a variety of clothing brands and other companies, ensuring an excellent annual income. In 2011, she was booked for the Casio digital camera launch in Times Square.
She was also at the Nokia Lumia 900 launch performing her songs. She appears in a television advertisement for Pepsi in Argentina. however, her popularity has been such that Mattel produced a Nicki Minaj-themed Barbie.
She has also been a model for MAC Cosmetics.Nicki Minaj collaborated with OPI Products on a collection of colored nail polishes that were named after her songs. In 2012, she signed an endorsement deal with Adidas . The song chosen for the promotion was “Masquerade” by Nicki Minaj.
The young woman decided to launch herself as an entrepreneur with her new fragrance, named after her first studio album, Pink Friday; Launched in September 2012 under the exclusive license of Macy’s in the United States and the international Elisabeth Arden.
Super Bass was included in the fourth edition of the video game Just Dance. Many rumors claim that she is bisexual, she showed her distaste for said label. She then sparked new rumors of her separation from Safaree Samuels, her partner of twelve years.
Her album, The pinkprint is inspired by the horrible end of the relationship. She expressed in a song that when she was 16 years old she had an abortion when she got pregnant with her boyfriend Aaron.
Nicki’s Minaj Type Of Music
Minaj is known for her upbeat rap style and unique flow. Her rapping is distinguished by its speed and use of alter egos and accents, primarily British Cockney. She often sings and raps in her songs and combines metaphors, jokes and puns in her work. 
Her alter egos are incorporated with her lyrics in British accents (Roman Zolanski) or soft voice (Harajuku Barbie). Ice-T said of Minaj’s rapping style: “She does her own thing. She has her own way of doing it. She has poor vocal delivery. She reminds me of a female Busta Rhymes, like the way she pitches her vocals in different directions.
The New York Times called Minaj “a brilliant rapper with a flair for comedic accents and unexpected turns of phrase. She’s a walking exaggeration, huge in sound, personality and looks. And she’s a rapid evolution, shedding the old ways so easily like embracing the new ones.”
Although many critics describe her technique as bubble gum rapping, Minaj said, “What people don’t know is that before she did that crazy thing she was doing to me, I was just doing a regular-sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with. But once I started doing all that weird stuff, I don’t get mad because it got everyone’s attention.”
Known as a rap artist, she lends herself to electronic music genres (especially electropop). Pink Friday marked her exploration of her genres, spawning electro songs including the pop-laden “Super Bass”.
Also combining rap with synthesizer music, Minaj’s second album featured several electro-hop and electro-pop songs: “HOV Lane”, “Whip It”, “Automatic”, “Come on a Cone” , “Young Forever”, “Fire Burns”, “Roman Holiday” and “Beez in the Trap”; while “Starships” is a eurodance song. She collaborated with other artists, which led to more electronic songs: “The Boys” with singer Cassie and “Beauty and a Beat” with Justin Bieber.
Her verse in Kanye West‘s “Monster” was critically acclaimed and contributed greatly to his popularity; many critics said it had the best verse of the song. Her verse was listed by Complex as the best rap verse of the 2010s. West stated at one point that he considered removing his verse from the track, because he was concerned it would overshadow the his own work:
It was like that moment where I thought I’d take Nicki’s verse off of “Monster” because I knew people would say it was the best verse on the best Hip Hop album of all time or possibly the top ten album of all time.
And I did all that work, eight months of work on “Dark Fantasy” and people to this day were like, ‘My favorite thing was Nicki Minaj’s verses.’ So if I let my ego get the best of me instead of letting that girl have a chance to make that platform all that it could be, I’d take it away or sideline her, try to prevent her from having that shining moment.
Tara Colley of The Conversation described Minaj as a “pre-eminent rapper” and that she “has constantly played off the various personas of gangsta boss and sexy pop siren without really committing to either” and that “her chameleon-like ability” he matches “with some of the most verbose, witty, dirty and friendly stars in pop” like Eminem and Lil Wayne.
Zoe Johnson, a writer for XXL , stated that in recent years “Minaj’s beat selection has moved into a polished production full of grit and hip-hop flair in recent years.”
Nicki Minaj Music Awards
Minaj has received numerous accolades, including six American Music Awards, 10 BET Awards, seven BET Hip Hop Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, six MTV Europe Music Awards, two People’s Choice Awards, one Soul Train Music Award. Award and four Teen Choice Awards.
Minaj has received a total of 10 Grammy Award nominations. She received her first Grammy nomination in 2010 for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (“My Chick Bad” with Ludacris). In 2012, Minaj received three nominations, including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album ( Pink Friday ).
In 2014, she also received her second nomination for Best Rap Album ( The Pinkprint). She also won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video three times (“Super Bass”, “Anaconda” and “Chun-Li”) and once won Best Female Video (“Starships”). . In 2019, Billboard Women in Music presented her with the Game Changer Award.
In 2010, Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, and the first woman to appear on MTV’s annual Hottest MCs list since its inception in 2007.
In 2013, Minaj became the most prominent rapper in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 at the time, with 44 entries, tying Mariah Carey for seventh place among women of all genders.
Her seven nominations surpassed those of rap musicians at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, [and she is the only rapper to win the BET Award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist seven consecutive times. She was the first female artist to make the Forbes Hip-Hop Cash King List, where she ranked fourth in 2013, earning $29 million.
Minaj has nineteen top 10 singles on the chart, the most for any female rapper, and four of them are solo songs. In 2017, Minaj broke the record for the most Hot 100 entries by any female artist, surpassing Aretha Franklin, and in 2018, she became the first female artist to amass 100 entries on the Hot 100. 100.
She held the record. for most Hot 100 entries by a female artist until it was broken by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift in December 2020. She is the second highest-grossing female artist on the Hot 100, behind Swift.
In 2019, his collaboration with Karol G, called “Tusa“, went on to be nominated twice at the Latin Grammys . On the charts, the song debuted at number one on the “Hot Latin Songs” chart, making it the first song with two main artists to do so. The song became the longest running number one single on the Argentina Hot 100, having spent 25 weeks at number one on the chart.
In 2020, Minaj became the second female rapper to reach number one on the Hot 100 more than once with her song “Trollz”. She also became the second woman to debut at the top of the chart since Lauryn Hill in 1998.
In 2021, the music video for “Anaconda” became the first female rap song to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. This marked her sixth video overall of hers to reach one billion views, making her the first and currently only female rapper to do so.
Nicki Minaj Fights
Disagreements between Minaj and rapper Remy Ma originated in 2007, when Ma took note of Minaj’s freestyle record, dubbed “Dirty Money”, from her Playtime Is Over (2007) mixtape. On the record, Minaj recites: “Tell that bitch with the crown to run like Chris Brown/won three rounds, I need a hundred thousand/like ‘Chinatown’; bitches better bow/oh you ain’t.”
I know, I bet you bitches already know / Fuck I got a gun, let her know it’s me.” Minaj reportedly never confirmed or denied that the song was about Ma. Although Ma and Minaj shared words of encouragement in recent years, their relationship soon soured, and they began releasing verses and songs with lyrics directed at each other, including Ma’s “Money Showers” featuring Fat Joe and “Make Amor” featuring Gucci Mane.
On February 25, 2017, she released “Shether”. On March 3, 2017, during a visit to The Wendy Williams Show , Ma accused Minaj of “trying to keep her off red carpets” and “making sure the awards don’t go to “..
A week later, in an interview arranged by BuzzFeed News, Ma stated that she had reservations about releasing the diss song and commented on the difficulties of being a woman in the music industry. Minaj subsequently responded with the song “No Frauds”.
Minaj has been involved in a feud with rapper Lil’ Kim since her success with Pink Friday . Kim accused Minaj of copying her image, saying, “If you’re going to steal my loot, you’re going to have to pay. Something has to give. You help me, I help you. That’s how it goes.”
Minaj’s single “Roman’s Revenge” featuring Eminem was believed to be a response to Kim’s comments, hough she later denied this. She responded to the situation in an interview with HOT 97’s Angie Martinez by saying, “She picked a fight with Foxy, then she picked a fight with Eva, then she picked a fight with Remy, then she was Mrs. Wallace, then she was Nicki Minaj.
Every time you’re in the news, it’s because you’re messing with someone. Where’s your music? Put your music on, and when I see your name on Billboard , that’s when I’ll get back to you. Other than that, bye. It’s Barbie , bitch “.
Lil’ Kim reignited the feud with the release of her De Ella Black Friday mixtape (the title of which made a direct reference to Minaj). The artwork shows Lil’ Kim beheading Minaj with a sword. In April 2011, Minaj released a snippet of a track called “Tragedy” as a response.
Following the release of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded , critics suggested that the track “Stupid Hoe” may have contained attacks directed at Kim. Lil’ Kim later suggested in an interview with 105’s Breakfast Club that the song “Automatic” was similar to her unreleased material, and she also called Minaj “nasty” and “bitchy”.
Nicki Minaj Private Life
On April 12, 2015, she made her relationship with rapper Meek Mill public. But it only lasted two years. The most recent musically of Minaj is the launch of her new record work during her special appearance at the 2018 Met Gala in New York, it is called Queen and will be released on the music market on June 15, 2018 with the Young Money and Cash record label. Money Records.
The first two singles from the album were released on April 12, 2018. And the music videos were released on the singer’s YouTube account on May 4, 2018.
Nicki Minaj Net Worth
In addition to album sales and touring, Minaj earns money by collaborating with other artists. Minaj was discovered by rapper Lil Wayne and signed to his record company Young Money Entertainment in 2009.
Much of Minaj’s wealth comes from record sales and show fees, but she also earns money working outside of music. Among her outside projects, she was a judge on the 12th season of American Idol in 2013. She has judged alongside celebrities like Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, and Randy Jackson. According to Reuters, Minaj earned $12 million for her appearance.
Minaj has also made a fortune thanks to various endorsement deals. She has endorsed products for brands like OPI, Pepsi, and MAC Cosmetics. Filing fees also increase your income. In 2014, Floyd Mayweather Jr. donated $50,000 to Minaj to attend his daughter’s 14th birthday party. The following year, the rapper was paid between $300,000 and $500,000 to perform at a bar mitzvah.
Most women like to accessorize their outfits, but Minaj says she went to extremes at one point. In an interview with Vogue in 2012, Minaj talked about how important accessories are to her.
She admitted that she used to spend thousands of dollars to accessorize. She told the magazine that she spent $50,000 a month “on Giuseppe, Versace, YSL and Fendi shoes. And I bought tons of Louis Vuitton bags,” she said.
As of 2019, Nicki Minaj’s net worth is $85 million.
