Those early struggles, Minaj has said, helped fuel her drive to rise above the life her parents knew. At one point, he set fire to the family's home in a failed attempt to kill Minaj's mother. Minaj's father was a severe drug addict with a long history of violence. Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December 8, 1982, in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved with her family to Queens, New York, when she was 5 years old. Nicki will go down as one of the best to do it in the history of music.” Early Life Her label-mate Lil Wayne calls her “an icon” who has “reached far beyond anything I would have imagined. Who Is Nicki Minaj?īorn in the Caribbean, Nicki Minaj moved to New York as a 5-year-old and has overcome a difficult childhood to become a successful hip-hop artist. Hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj rocketed to fame with tracks like "Super Bass," "Starships," and later "Anaconda." She is the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously on the Billboard 100 chart. You should be able to try whatever the hell you want to try as long as you’re keeping your integrity.” And I don’t like when-especially black women-put a limit on what they can do. I am not your typical person.” “I never put a limit on myself. It's for fighters.” “I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win.” “I am not your typical rapper. That's my goal – to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to.” “I just tell people: don't even come in the business if you think it's going to be peaches and rainbows and unicorns. And when that party is up, what are you going to do?” “I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. If you're not savvy, this business will eat you alive. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.” “Fantasy was my reality.” “I just feel I have bigger balls than the boys.” “I tell my Barbs, 'Stay in school, respect your body, don't go giving it away, don't depend on a man.' I tell them that all the time.” “Everything I do, I do with business in my head. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'” “I don’t mind being called a weirdo.” “There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. “I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.
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