Hip-hop artist and singer Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) was born on December 8, 1982, in St. James, Trinidad, and Tobago, then moved with her family to Queens, New York when she was 5 years old. Minaj’s father was a heavy drug addict. She said that the early years of the struggle fueled her desire to become better than her parents.
Minaj was looking for an image for herself that would empower her to become a “new person”. “Fantasy was my reality,” she said. Minaj had an artistic gift. At the age of 12, she wrote her first rap, and then went on to act at the “High School of Music La Guardia”.
Music
Nicki Minaj’s debut work was the mixtape “Playtime Is Over” which was released in 2007. In 2008-2009, she released various demos, which the public did not notice. Rapper Lil Wayne loved her work, and the musician ventured to sign a contract with the newborn performer.
Soon Nicki Minaj’s first album “Pink Friday” was released, after which she became popular. The single “Your Love” became a hit. Next, the singer performed another single “Right Thru Me”.
At first, Minaj used the image of the Japanese geisha, but when it began to crumble, she changed her role. In her third video, “Moment For Life,” she portrayed herself as “the Cinderella of hip-hop.”
The song “Super Bass” can be called the most successful of the singer’s career. It quickly broke into the TOP-10 and held on to the top for a long time. This atomic hit racked up 760 million views on YouTube.
In the summer of 2011, Nicki released a duet with DJ David Guetta. Their work “Where Them Girls At?” was predicted to be a hit.
Throughout the year, Minaj performed new songs from the forthcoming album, but all of them failed – the compositions did not hit the charts, and critics spoke negatively about them.
Nicki Minaj is the first rap singer who was invited to perform at the Grammy: at the 54th ceremony, she sang the hit “Roman Holiday”.
In May 2014, the singer recorded the first track on her forthcoming new album, “Pills N Potions”, and in August, Minaj released her second single, “Anaconda”. “Anaconda” took 2nd place on the US national charts and became an undisputed hit. At the end of 2014, Nicki presented the album “The Pinkprint”.
In 2015, Nicky recorded the track “Hey Mama”. The song became a world hit, the refrain of the song “Hey Mom” did not leave the radio frequencies, and the track confidently took high positions in the music tops.
In 2016, Nicki Minaj recorded the track “Side To Side” for Ariana Grande’s studio album “Dangerous Woman”. The song became the third song in support of the colleague’s album.
In early 2017, Minaj performed the song and video “No frauds” together with Drake and Lil Wayne. In the spring of 2017, the musician released a music video for the track of the same name “Swalla”, recorded together with Jason Derulo.
In the same year, the singer recorded the singles “Kissing Strangers”, “Run Up” and “Make Love”, released without an album. The songs were created in collaboration with other musicians.
Today Nicki Minaj is a rap singer whose singles are well-known all over the world and released millions of copies.
Personal life of Niki Minaj
At the end of 2014, Nicky finally officially announced that she had been engaged to Safari Samuels for over 10 years, but also stated that the couple broke up in 2014 after 11 years of relationship. Since December 2014, information has spread that Nicky is in a relationship with rapper Meek Mill, but she denied this information saying that they are good friends. In January 2015, Nicky and Mick posted joint photos and began to appear in public and spend almost all their days together at various events, concerts, and parties in clubs. In 2018, she began an affair with Kenneth Petty, who served time for sex crime and murder. She married Petty on October 21, 2019. In the summer of 2020, it became known that Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty would become parents for the first time. In early October 2020, it became known that the artist gave birth to a son in a Los Angeles clinic. Rapper Kennett Petty attended the birth.
