Talk:Nicki Minaj

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I know nothing about her but we didn't have an article so I figured I'd at least throw up something and hope that someone else takes over. --zaiger (talk) 23:00, 7 November 2012 (EST)

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Nicki Minaj was born in Trinidad in 1982 or 1984. She moved to Queens, New York at age 5.Her rapping career started in 2003 when she was discovered by a group called the Hoodstars which included her future (male) secretary, hypeman, and best friend Safaree "SB" Samuels as well as 2 other guys. The earliest song that she did was a freestyle with some of the group on Hot 97 with local DJ Kay Slay in 2003. They released a few songs in 2004 as well as one song that got on a little known WE compilation. Hoodstars disbanded sometime in 2005 and Nicki disappeared for a few years. She resurfaced in 2007 with a new manager at a company called Dirty Money named Big Fendi which she claimed she was the President of. Around this time, she was also signed to Young Money but at that point, her association with Young Money was just a few songs with Lil' Wayne. Her first mixtape "Playtime is Over" was released in the summer of that year. This was in a time when not many female rappers were really active in New York. Lil' Kim, the original New York female rapper was on a break and didn't release a mixtape until the next year. Kim is very important to the story and will be referred to again later. Foxy Brown, had retired years earlier and was almost totally inactive except for one mixtape like album that she released the next year to mixed reviews. Remy Ma WAS active at the time but she was sent to prison for wounding someone in the torso who stole from her a little bit later. Because of the non-presence of any hardcore New York female rappers, Nicki had a lot of buzz. It helped that when she was underground, she could rap and very well too. At the time that she released "Playtime is Over", she had no Barbie persona or Roman Zolanski persona. For a while her only persona, was a sexually active straight lady named Nicki Lewinski. She appeared underground in her boss's New York movie series "The Come-Up" and would frequently perform new songs there or a rival series called "Hood Affairs". In 2008, she released a new album called Sucka Free. It was pretty similar in content but it had more famous guests on. The most interesting track was a song called "Wanna Minaj?". It sampled a track called "Freaky Gurl Remix" and it actually included Lil' Kim's entire verse from the remix. Minaj's career changed for good in 2009. This was around the time she started the Barbie persona and was able to act more random. Unfortunately, Lil' Wayne decided to promote her around this time. The last mixtape that she released was "Beam Me Up Scotty" in April, 2009. Note that one of her featured singles around this time was with gay rapper Jeffree Star. By this time she was toning her lyrics down and losing her talent that got her started, she parted with Fendi and that pissed him off a lot. She released an album with Young Money and released some tracks which aren't important. The first time she used the Zolanski persona was in "Bottom's Up", a song with a singer/occasional rapper named Trey Songz. She eventually said that Roman was a gay male and introduced his mother who has a British accent and a little sister. Around this time, Lil' Kim started speaking out on what she thought was copying and disses towards her by Nicki. Publicly, Nicki had praised Kim in a lot of her interviews but they used a lot of similar words and Nicki mentioned a lot of things that Kim had done negatively in her songs while not naming her directly. Nicki released some extremely direct disses on her first album "Pink Friday" which was not up to her standard such as "Roman's Revenge" and the stuttering and metaphor heavy "Did it On Em', which includes the SB mentioned earlier randomly shouting" on her first album as a response. It went to a head as Kim released a mixtape in 2011 called "Black Friday" where she decapitates Nicki on the cover. She released a single also called "Black Friday" which was even more of a diss than Minaj's tracks were. Other notable tracks are "Pissin' On Em', a remix of "Did It On Em'", and Warning which has a small diss to autistic rapper 50 Tyson as well as disses to Lil' Wayne and Birdman, the owner of Cash Money. Later, Nicki and Kim would do interviews about the situation which will be linked below. Nicki released her second album in 2012 called "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" where her rapping got even worse and more heavy on pop. Later that year, she released a few more tracks and called that "The Pinkprint". Lil' Kim has yet to release a new album after an 8 year hiatus from making an album excluding three mixtapes, and a mainstream single with T-Pain. She has a new artist named Tiffany Foxx who she is focusing on at the moment. They released a single called Jay-Z earlier this year and "Twisted" which featured Miley Cyrus dancing in one version.

Interviews:

• Nicki on Angie Martinez
• Lil' Kim on Angie Martinez
• Lil' Kim imitating Nicki on Angie Martinez
• Nicki Minaj on Power 105 Interview 1, Part 1
• Nicki Minaj on Power 105 Interview 1, Part 2
• Lil' Kim on Power 105
• Nicki Minaj on Power 105 Interview 2

Lil' Kim's fan's made a series called "Playtime is Over" named after Nicki's first mixtape to explain Kim's reasoning. It is very interesting to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMujDFsnxA --Thebirdlover from Wikipedia 1:01, 11 July 2013 (EDT)