Nicki Minaj was born in Trinidad but moved to Queens, New York as a child. She began her music career by releasing mixtapes and was later signed by Lil Wayne's record label. Her debut album Pink Friday was a commercial success, selling over 2.6 million copies worldwide. Minaj gained recognition through her alter egos and colorful fashion style, but also faced criticism from other rappers like Lil Kim. Despite challenges, Minaj continued her philanthropic work and achieved commercial success with hit singles.

1. Jason Richards
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Success!
By Jason Richards
Born Onika Tanya Maraj
December 8th 1982.
Nicki Minaj was born in Trinidad,
but moved to Queens, New York,
at a young age, where she was
enrolled to LaGuardia High School.
From a young age Nicki lived with her grandmother then, at the age of five, she
moved to live in Queens with her mother. Nicki has always been open about her
family life: how her father drunk heavily, abused drugs and even tried to kill her
mother by setting the house on fire. All of these events have helped Nicki to
open up and share her experiences through music.
After starting her music career with a lot of mix tapes such as Beam Me Up
Scotty, Nicki was scouted buy Lil Wayne and later signed to the same record
label, Young Money Entertainment from Universal Records.
Once signed, Nicki’s first album, Pink Friday, exploded on to the billboard 200.
The album was made platinum just one month after its release, which is
unknown for a female rapper. The album consists of 13 amazing tracks and 6
were realised as singles including collaborations with Will.i.am, Drake, Rihanna,
Cheryl Cole & Eminem.
Pink Friday Album List
• I’m the best. • Check it out Ft Will.i.am & Cheryl
• Romans revenge Ft Eminem. Cole
• Did it on’em • Blazin ft Kanye West
• Right thru me • Here I am
• Fly Ft Rihanna • Your love
• Save me • Last chance ft Natasha
• Moment for life Ft Drake Bedingfield
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Alter Egos
After winning many awards throughout 2009 – 2011, Nicki puts her success
down to her alter egos that she created in her head as a scared child. She now
uses these alter egos for different types of music.
"To get away from all their fighting, I would imagine being a new person.” Nicki
Minaj
Awards And Achievements Results
Underground music awards Won
2009
Best Female Hip Hop Artist Won
2009
Best New Artist 2009 Won
Peoples Champ 2010 Won
Rookie of the year 2010 Won
Break though Artist of the Won
year 2010
Best Video 2010 Won
The first one to be created was Cookie who later progressed into Harajuku
Barbie and later Nicki Minaj. Since then many more have appeared into Minaj’s
Music videos, for example, Roman Zolanski appeared in Treyz Songs video
claiming to be her twin and appears when Nicki’s angry out of rage.
Then, there’s Martha Zolanski, Romans Mother, who appears as a fairy god
mother in the video Moment for life.
Since then two more egos have appeared on different talk shows: Nicki Teresa
aka Mother Teresa and Rosa pronounced as Rosssssaaaarrrr.
“I chase perfection every day. Why would you want to be second place? That just means
you’re the first loser.” Nicki Minaj
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One of the best successes of Nicki Minaj’s songs was a remix of
Britney Spears – Till The World Ends, Ft Kesha, this hit number one on the hot
100 list for 3 weeks. After the success of the song Britney Spears personally
invited Minaj on her femme fatale world tour as the opening act. From the
success of it the Pink Friday tour will start in 2012.
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As the success of Pink Friday continues to grow, Nicki has become more and
more involved in charity events to help others. The first big concert that she
took part in was VH1 DIVAS salute the troop’s benefit, where she hosted and
took part in the show, singing her hit Super Base. Next came a copy of Girls
Just Want To Have Fun with Katy Perry, where they came out in skimpy troops
uniforms.
This year Nicki was also named “Face of Mac Lipstick”, together with Ricky
Martin, to contribute all profits from the sale of the beauty products to go in aid
of fighting HIV and AIDS. This campaign has featured many celebrities before
and is considered a great honor to help people all over the world. Previous
ambassadors include Adam Lambert, Queen Latifa, The Kardashians, Lady
Gaga, Fergie and many more.
Fashion
Fashion has made a big influence on Nicki’s career; her outgoing and quirky
style pushes the boundaries of everyday living with skin tight outfits made from
plastic, leather, feathers and anything else imaginable. She has been compared
to Lady Gaga on many occasions; she also stands out with her hair, which
ranges from pink, black, orange, green, and blonde - she done it all. At the
2011 Grammy Awards she turned up in head to toe leopard print with a
blonde “Bride of Frankenstein” beehive hairdo with a black stripe.
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Problems
Even with all success, Nicki’s career has its downfalls. Before Minaj there was
only one well known female rapper, Lil Kim and she did not take kindly to the
new kid on the block, after a lot off ongoing twitter argument Lil Kim released
an album entitled Black Friday mocking Minaj, on the cover off Black Friday
was a very controversial picture of Minaj with her head being cut off by Lil Kim.
The ongoing battle between these two stars is getting bigger and bigger
everyday.
“Refuse to lose. Refuse to be defeated. Refuse to have regrets” Nicki Minaj
After 3 years off collaborations, Nicki has decided that after the release of
“Where Them Girls At, Ft David Guetta and Flo Rider. She won’t be doing any
more collaboration until 2014, so her fans can really hear her music.
Acknowledgement
• http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?
board=personal&action=display&thread=106162
• http://coverlandia.net
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicki_Minaj
• http://www.sick-space.com/quotes/celebrity/nicki-minaj
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