Onika Tanya Maraj, who is known to most of the world as Nicki Minaj, was born December 8 1984. As a native of Trinidad and Tobago, Minaj had to teach herself to dream big and always try to be her best. She didn’t have as many positive images and role models in her life, but one thing she understood was that she loved to write and create music.
With the excitement of music Minaj strives to write the best lyrics anyone has ever listened to She speaks the truth and never holds back, one of the reasons I love her! At the root of Minaj’s career she released three mix tapes “Play Time Is Over,” “Sucka Free,” and “Beam Me Up Scotty” (which is my personal favorite) which showed her true talent and got her recognized by certain people especially me; but it was almost as if you had to search for her.
When introduced to Minaj’s hit “Itty Biggy Piggy” last year by Muffin Brassfield, I fell in love with her voice and lyrics.
Lil Wayne, Minaj’s male role model, got a hold of one of her mixtapes and showed it to the Young Money Entertainment producers. They were very impressed with the young woman whose musical instinct is truly original. She first saw fame when she signed a record deal with Young Money Entertainment, and then later with Cash Money Records. Almost immediately after signing with Young Money, Minaj began working on her first CD entitled “Pink Friday,” which is truly amazing and was released in 2010
“After a much anticipated release, as the result of Minaj’s extensive featured appearances on the singles of other artists, ‘Pink Friday’ debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 375,000 copies,” from Billboard. Can you say amazing? With approximately 1,035,000 copies sold worldwide Minaj’s success is just beginning to sprout. Minaj became the first artist ever to have seven songs within the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.
This 26-year-old Hip-hop and Rap artist has began to promote her imaginative “pink world.” With our favorite color at hand, Minaj tweets on Twitter and thanks all her fans for supporting her and helping her get to this point. Just recently did her album become platinum and her song ‘Moment 4 Life’ became number one on 106 & Park Top Ten Countdown.
I personally love Nicki Minaj because she speaks her mind and she doesn’t care what people say about her. In her interview on MTV called My Time Now, Minaj expresses her true emotion and proves to the world that she indeed is a real person with real feelings. What really seems to get to me is the fact that people judge her and accuse her of being fake and not genuine, when she is still just as normal as you and I. She has surpassed all the hate and criticism and has done her own thing. Minaj is known to have extravagant outfits and costumes and hair to match it, literally. Minaj tries her hardest to match the color wig she wears with whatever outfits she is sporting that day, if my mom would let me do that I think I would too.
My all time favorite was her decked out leopard print dress, gloves, and boots she wore to the Grammy’s, not only because she wore is but probably because I love leopard print too! That’s just one more thing that I can add to the list of the things that we have in common. I honestly think that this woman could be a serious role model for anyone who wants to make it and they have doubts about what will happen in the future. Despite her past, all you really have to look at is where Minaj is right now. And if you choose to hate on her remember what you’re doing as you read this and see if your anywhere close to recording an album that sold millions and working for one of the best greatest Hip-Hop and Rap Record labels in history.
