Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj [ ˌnɪkɪ mɪnɑːʒ ] (* 8. December 1982 as Onika Tanya Maraj in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago ) is in the United States living rapper , R & B - singer , songwriter and actress . Minaj is officially known as the Queen of Rap . She has been under contract with Young Money Entertainment , the label of US rapper Lil Wayne , since 2009 ; the label is associated with Cash Money , which is run by rapper Birdman and Lil Wayne. In June 2010 she became the first female rapper since Lil 'Kim's Magic Sticks (feat. 50 Cent ) in 2002 with her song Your Love to top the US Billboard Hot Rap Tracks. She is the first female artist to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 with seven songs at the same time . In June 2015, she broke Missy Elliott's record by winning her sixth Best Female R'n'B & Hip-Hop Artist BET Award , who had won this award five times. With over 100 platinum records and almost 147 million records sold (as of September 2019), she is not only the most commercially and musically successful, but also the most popular female rapper of all time with 111 million Instagram followers. In March 2017 she broke the Billboard Hot 100 record for the most chart placements by a woman in the history of the US charts.
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Nicki Minaj was born on December 8, 1982 as Onika Tanya Maraj in Saint James , a district of Port of Spain in the Caribbean island state of Trinidad and Tobago , and lived there with her grandmother for the first five years. Their ancestors come from Africa and India; their family name is a short form of the Sanskrit Hindu ruler Maharaj , which means "great ruler".
From the age of five, she lived in the New York borough of Queens with her parents, who had emigrated to the United States. Her father was addicted to alcohol and drugs and was regularly violent towards his wife and children. In 2003, Nicki Minaj graduated from LaGuardia High School , Manhattan Public School of Drama and Music .
Music career
2004–2010: career start and various mix tapes
Minaj began her music career in New York in 2004 singing backing vocals and hooks for some rappers. That same year, Fendi, the CEO of Dirty Money Recordings, heard her songs on her MySpace page and signed them. After being heard and seen on The Come Up on the Dirty Money DVD , Lil Wayne contacted her and the two recorded some songs together.
In April 2007 she released her first mixtape Playtime Is Over, which featured some of the songs with Lil Wayne.
In 2008 her second mixtape Sucka Free followed . She was also featured on the cover of hip-hop magazine XXL and won the Female Artist of the Year Award at the Underground Music Awards . In April 2009, their third mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty , was released, from which both the broadcaster BET and MTV reported positively. This was followed by the signing of an artist contract with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment in collaboration with Universal Motown Records . The album We Are Young Money by Young Money , was heard on the Minaj, reached number 9 of the US Billboard 200 and thus won her first chart success. The second single from the album Bedrock , on which she can be heard as a rapper, reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the US Billboard Hot Rap Tracks .
2010–2011: Pink Friday
Before Nicki Minaj released her first solo songs, she recorded other songs with Mariah Carey ( Up Out My Face (Remix) ) , Ludacris (My Chick Bad) , Usher (Lil 'Freak) , Sean Kingston (Letting Go [Dutty Love]) , Jeffree Star (Lollipop Luxury) and Christina Aguilera ( Woohoo ) . In January 2010 the mixtape Barbie World was released, but not by Minaj himself, which is why she did not consider it her mixtape. Her first single, Massive Attack , featuring singer Sean Garrett , was released on April 13, 2010, and the video for this single was released on March 31, 2010. The song reached number 22 on Billboard's US Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs . On June 1, 2010, Minaj released the song Your Love from Barbie World because it had been played on many radio stations in advance and had received a lot of attention. However, the song was re-recorded and in a modified version, as there was only a demo on the mixtape. It became her most successful single to date; it reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 , number 8 on Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs, and number 1 on Billboard Hot Rap Tracks . The music video was released on July 21, 2010. Right thru Me was released on September 24, 2010, the accompanying video in October. Moment 4 Life , a collaboration with Canadian rapper Drake , was released after Right thru Me on December 7, 2010. The song reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs and number 1 on Billboard Hot Rap Tracks .
On December 11, 2010, the album Pink Friday debuted on the US Billboard 200 straight away at number 2 behind My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West . On February 19, 2011, and thus in the eleventh week of the chart, the album made it to the top of the album charts. Nicki Minaj is the first woman in the world to have seven songs from one album on the US Billboard 200 at the same time, and she was nominated for a 2011 Teen Choice Award for best R&B / HipHop singer. In April 2011, pop singer Britney Spears announced that Minaj would join her on her Femme Fatale tour to perform in the opening act. Fittingly, Minaj guested with Ke $ ha on a remix of Spears' single Till the World Ends that same month . The song reached number 3 on the US charts. Minaj's single Super Bass also reached number 3 in the US in August 2011, making it the most successful single of her career. In the UK charts, Minaj reached number 8 with the same song, where it is her first top ten success. In August 2011, Minaj received an MTV Video Music Award , or MTV VMA for short , her first international music award, for the video for her hit single Super Bass .
In November 2011, she received two American Music Awards , one for her debut album Pink Friday , which beat Lil Wayne and Kanye West , and the other for the fan award Rising Star of the Year 2011 . She had a stage performance with David Guetta at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011 , where she sang her hit Super Bass and her new track Turn Me On , which she recorded with David Guetta. In November 2011 Mattel had a Barbie doll that looked exactly like Minaj produced as a one-off. It was auctioned for charity in December and fetched $ 15,000.
2012–2013: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Her second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded should be released on February 14, 2012 , but the date was postponed to April 3, 2012. Minaj was nominated for a Virgin Media Music Award along with Rihanna and the hit Fly . Nicki Minaj was nominated three times for the Grammy Awards 2012 in the categories Best New Artist , Best Rap Album and Best Rap Performance . The re-release of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was released in April 2012 as the Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up . It contains seven new songs, including the title Va Va Voom , which was previously only available on the Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Deluxe Edition. The first single from the re-release Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up, The Boys (feat. Cassie ) was released on September 13, 2012. Nicki Minaj was in the US charts with eight singles. Va Va Voom, the next single from the album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: The Re-Up , was released on October 8, 2012. She could do well in America and Great Britain. On November 3, 2012, the third single called Freedom was released .
The fourth single from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded The Re-Up was high school with Lil Wayne and was released on April 16, 2013. At the 2013 Billboard Music Awards , Minaj had seven nominations. Minaj took on the speaking role of Hailey, a teenage mammoth, in the movie Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed . As of January 2013, Minaj sat on the American Idol jury for the first time , alongside Mariah Carey , Keith Urban and Randy Jackson . But she will not be on the American Idol jury again like Mariah Carey, as she announced.
In August 2012 Nicki Minaj introduced her first perfume called Pink Friday . At the beginning of May she released her second perfume Minajesty in Germany.
2014–2015: The Pinkprint
In May 2014, Minaj's first single from the album The Pinkprint was released with Pills N Potions . In August 2014, the second single from their third studio album, Anaconda, followed . Anaconda reached number 2 in the US charts, their best single song placement to date. On October 28th, the third single, Only, was released with Lil Wayne, Drake and Chris Brown . Minaj released Feelin 'Myself as a promotional single with Beyoncé .
Minaj hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards 2014 in Glasgow on November 9th, where she herself was nominated four times and won an award in the category Best Hip-Hop . On November 16, the single Bed of Lies with Skylar Gray was released . Minaj's third studio album, The Pinkprint , was released on December 15, 2014 and reached number 2 on the US charts and number 22 in the UK. The short film The Pinkprint Movie was released on January 21, 2015. This thematizes Minaj's ex-relationship with Safaree Samuels and is underpinned by her three songs "The Crying Game", "I Lied" and "Grand Piano".
Truffle Butter (feat. Drake & Lil Wayne ) was released in January 2015 as the fifth single from their third album. At the 2015 Grammy Awards , Minaj was nominated for both Best Rap Song for Anaconda and Best Pop Duo / Group Performance for Bang Bang , but she received nothing.
The Pinkprint Tour started in March 2015 , during which Minaj gave two concerts in Germany. She was accompanied by Trey Songz . Also in March Forbes Magazine announced that Minaj had doubled her personal fortune annually since 2010, making her the most commercially successful female rapper in the world. She was nominated for Best Singer and Best Song of the Year (Bang Bang) at the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards ; in the latter it was able to prevail.
The sixth single The Night Is Still Young from The Pinkprint was released on April 12, 2015 in Europe and later in the USA. The single reached number 31 in the US charts.
Minaj was nominated in four categories at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards: 'Top Rap Song' with Anaconda, 'Top Rap Album' with The Pinkprint, as well as 'Top Rap Artist' and 'Top Streaming Artist'. She won the BET Awards for the sixth time as 'Best Hip-Hop & R'n'B Artist' and the 'Coca-Cola Viewers Choice Award'.
On July 17th, 2015 the “The Pinkprint Tour” started in North America. Before that, she made numerous appearances in Europe on this tour. Minaj was nominated five times at the World Music Awards ("Best Video - Hey Mama, Best Song - Hey Mama, Best Female Artist, Best Live Act and Entertainer of the Year").
Minaj was nominated three times at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards: in the categories "Best Female Video" for Anaconda, "Best Hip-Hop Video" for Anaconda and "Best Collaboration" for Bang Bang, a collaboration with Jessie J and Ariana Grande . She was awarded the "Best Hip-Hop Video Award". She opened the awards ceremony with a medley of Trini Dem Girls, The Night Is Still Young and Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, who sang along from The Night Is Still Young . The joint appearance of the two artists served to promote public reconciliation after they had an argument on Twitter.
On September 1, 2015, the seventh single Trini Dem Girls was released with Lunchmoney Lewis . On October 25, 2015, she was named "Best Hip-Hop Artist" at the MTV Europe Music Awards for the second time in a row. Minaj received two awards at the American Music Awards, the "Favorite Rap / Hip-Hop Artist Award" and the "Favorite Rap / Hip-Hop Album Award". She received the Album Award for her album 'The Pinkprint', released in 2014
For the Grammy Awards 2016, Minaj was nominated in the following categories: "Best Rap / Sung Collaboration" for Only, "Best Rap Performance" for Truffle Butter and "Best Rap Album" for The Pinkprint (but she received nothing ). At the 2016 BET Awards, she won the 'Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist' award for the seventh time.
2016-2018: Queen
On February 4, 2016, the song Down in the DM was released as a single. This was originally released as a solo song by Yo Gotti on the album The Art Of Hustle , but as a remix version it reached number 13 on the US singles chart, where it went double platinum for two million sales. A month later, she appeared on the song No Broken Hearts by Bebe Rexha . The track was able to reach the charts in Germany, the Czech Republic and Belgium, among others.
In collaboration with DJ Khaled , Chris Brown , Jeremih , Future , August Alsina and Rick Ross , the song Do You Mind was released in July 2016 , which reached number 27 and platinum status in the USA. In the published in the May 2016 album Dangerous Woman of Ariana Grande , Nicki Minaj appeared on the song Side to Side with. The song was released as a single on August 30, 2016 and moved up bit by bit in the singles charts of numerous countries. In the UK and the US, the single reached number 4. Within 6 months, the song sold over three million copies.
In the fall of 2016, the songs Froze by Meek Mill and Lil Uzi Vert , in which she is a guest musician, were released, as well as Black Barbies , a promo single that was created in collaboration with Mike Will Made It . Both singles brought Minaj into the US singles charts.
On January 26th, 2017 the song Run Up was released , which was created in collaboration with the DJ trio Major Lazer and singer PartyNextDoor . The track hit the charts in over 20 countries, including 8 top 20 placements. Her second collaboration single with Jason Derulo , entitled Swalla , followed in February 2017 . This was also a worldwide success. In addition to Minaj, rapper Ty Dolla Sign can also be heard as a guest musician.
On February 24, 2017, the song Make Love with Gucci Mane , which was only successful in the USA, was released. The first digital single No Frauds , which was created in collaboration with Lil Wayne and Drake , reached the charts of all German-speaking countries as well as the upper half of the chart in the United Kingdom and number 14 on the US Billboart charts. Regret in Your Tears is their first solo single in two years, and Changed It is another collaboration with Lil Wayne. All three songs were released on March 10, 2017. With the release of these three singles, Minaj reached her 76th chart placement on the Billboard Hot 100 , breaking Aretha Franklin's 40-year record .
In a live interview with Final Kid on Facebook on January 27, 2017, French DJ and producer David Guetta announced that his seventh studio album had already been completed and that his upcoming single was a collaboration with Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne. On March 21, 2017, Minaj posted the artwork on her Instagram profile, revealing the title Light My Body Up . The track was released as a single on March 23, 2017. In May 2017, singer Katy Perry released the song Swish Swish , in which Minaj is a guest singer.
With the songs Chun Li and Barbie Tingz, she released the first singles from her album Queen . The album was announced by Minaj at the 2018 Met Gala in New York. She initially named the publication date June 15, 2018, but postponed the publication to August 10 of the same year for health reasons. However, Barbie Tingz was removed from the final version of the album. It is only available in an American deluxe edition. On June 11, 2018, she released the promo single Rich Sex, which features a guest post by Lil Wayne and will also be featured on Queen. On the same day she also announced a world tour with the rapper Future. A few days later, on June 14, 2018, Minaj released the second official single Bed, on which, alongside Minaj, Ariana Grande can be heard.
Queen finally appeared on August 10, 2018 and peaked at number 2 on the US charts. It includes guest posts from The Weeknd , Future, Foxy Brown , Eminem and Ariana Grande , among others . Four days after the album was released, Barbie Dreams was released as the third single. She is the first hip-hop artist who has managed to double her personal fortune annually since the beginning of her career in 2004. This makes Minaj the most commercially successful female rapper of all time. By releasing her studio albums, the world tour and various advertising deals, including for Pepsi and Adidas , Minaj was able to make a fortune of over 80 million US dollars. Pepsi paid her $ 12 million to have a cameo at the end of the promotional video and use her song, Moment 4 Life , the highest amount the company has paid any promotional artist to date.
2019: Megatron
In June she released the single Megatron . In August, the rapper Megan Thee Stallion released the single Hot Girl Summer , on whose vocal track Minaj is represented.
In September 2019, Nicki Minaj announced her retirement from the music industry at the age of 36, which she later denied and described it as a joke. In October she released the song "Fendi" (a collaboration with PnB Rock and Murda Beatz) on the occasion of her Fendi fashion collection released in October in collaboration with the fashion label Fendi .
Private life
Although some songs and interviews suggested that she was bisexual, Minaj said she did not have sex with women and did not date them either. In an interview with The Vibe , she said, “I just greet all people, with all their different lifestyles, and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I tell girls that they are beautiful and that they are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have someone to tell them and really mean it, I will. But people always want to define me, and I don't want to be defined. ”In an interview with Out , she reiterated how much she hates being pigeonholed:“ The point is, nobody is just black or white . There are so many shades in between, and if you want to say something, you have to be comfortable speaking it. "
During an interview for the May 2010 issue of Details magazine , Minaj was asked if she felt that hip-hop was becoming more gay-friendly. She replied, “I think the whole world is getting more gay friendly, so hip-hop will too. Still, it's hard to imagine a homosexual male rapper being accepted in this scene, as many believe that a gay man has no street credibility and cannot be taken seriously. But I'm still sure that at some point we'll see a rapper like that too. "
Minaj was in a relationship with rappers Safaree Samuels , Meek Mill and Nas .
On October 21, 2019, Minaj announced on the Internet platform Instagram that she had married her boyfriend Kenneth Petty , with whom she has been together since 2018. Minaj had already revealed on her radio show in August that she had applied for a marriage permit and that she would like to "get married in 80 days". Some media outlets and fans of Minaj have criticized Petty for allegedly a convicted felon and imprisoned for murder and attempted sexual offense. Minaj denied these allegations.
Filmography
As an actress
- Ice Age 4: Fully Postponed (Steffie's Voice; 2012)
- The Schadenfreundinnen (Lydia; 2014)
- Barbershop 3: The Next Cut (Draya; 2016)
- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (Thurop Van Orman; 2019)
TV series
- Nicki Minaj: My Time Now ( VMA Footagee; 2010)
- E! Special: Nicki Minaj (Journey to fame; 2011)
- Nicki Minaj: Day In The Life (Behind the scenes footage; 2012)
- Nicki Minaj: My Truth (Miniseries; 2012)
- American Idol (Juorin Season 12; 2013)
- Steven Universe (Sugilite; Coach Steven 2014)
- Nicki Minaj: My Time Again (VMA Footage; 2015)
- The BET Life of Nicki Minaj (Documentary; 2015)
Others
- The Come Up DVD: Volume 11 (2007)
- The Come Up DVD: Volume 17 (2008)
- Romans Revenge DVD (2012)
- The Re-Up DVD (2012)
- The Pinkprint Movie (short film; 2015)
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 2010 |
Pink Friday Young Money , Cash Money , Republic |
- | - | - |
UK16  (89 weeks)UK |
US1 × 3
(73 weeks)US |
First published: November 19, 2010
Sales: + 3,750,000 |
| 2012 |
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Young Money, Cash Money, Republic |
DE44 (4 weeks) DE |
AT49 (3 weeks) AT |
CH24 (10 weeks) CH |
UK1 (47 weeks)UK |
US1 × 2
(49 weeks)US |
First published: April 2, 2012
Sales: + 2,135,000 |
| 2014 |
The Pinkprint Young Money, Cash Money, Republic |
DE69 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
CH39 (3 weeks) CH |
UK22nd  (26 weeks)UK |
US2 × 2
(123 weeks)US |
First published: December 12, 2014
Sales: + 2,661,000 |
| 2018 |
Queen Young Money, Cash Money, Republic |
DE18 (5 weeks) DE |
AT19 (3 weeks) AT |
CH5 (5 weeks) CH |
UK5 (15 weeks)UK |
US2 (57 weeks)US |
First published: August 10, 2018
Sales: + 1,100,000 |
Tours
Headlining tours
- Pink Friday Tour (2012)
- Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded World Tour (2012)
- The Pinkprint World Tour (2015/16)
- The Nicki Wrld Tour (2019)
Opening act
- America's Most Wanted Tour (Lil Wayne; 2008)
- I Am Still Music Tour (Lil Wayne; 2011)
- Femme Fatale Tour (Britney Spears; 2011)
Web links
- Nicki Minaj in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Go Hard Official Video
- ↑ Ariana Grande - Side To Side ft. Nicki Minaj
- ↑ Police report (PDF; 570 kB)
- ↑ Nicki Minaj: a big record is pending. Mix1.de, January 6, 2019.
- ^ Gary Trust: Nicki Minaj Makes History as First Woman With 100 Appearances on Billboard Hot 100 , billboard.com, November 5, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Ben Arogundade. 200,000 Google Questions About Nicki Minaj's Race, Ethnicity, Nationality & Parents Robert & Carol
- ↑ Article on Radar Online. Retrieved September 5, 2015 .
- ^ Billboard.com: Britney Spears chart history
- ↑ Nicki Minaj Preps Pepsi Deal
- ↑ Nicki Minaj Preps New Single “The Boys”: Who's Her Mystery Guest? . September 11, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ↑ Nicki Minaj on Twitter: "Thursday" . September 11, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Forthcoming UK Singles . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ↑ Nicki Minaj “Freedom” (NEW MUSIC) . November 4, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ↑ BBMA Winners . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ↑ Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban Confirmed As American Idol Judges . September 16, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ↑ Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey Leaving 'American Idol' . May 31, 2013. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ↑ HuffingtonPost.com: Nicki Minaj's Perfume Bottle Revealed: 'Pink Friday' Packaging Looks Familiar. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Nicki Minaj announces the supposed end of her career , N-TV.de: Nicki Minaj announces the end of her career , Focus.de: Nicki Minaj announces the end of her career , Welt.de: Rapper Nicki Minaj announced the end of her career
- ↑ Jonah Weiner: Who's That Girl? . Slate. February 22, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ a b Nicki Minaj: Hip-Hop's Hottest Sidekick Goes Solo . Details. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ EXTRA, EXTRA: Lost Nicki Minaj Quotes . VIBE. July 6, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ Ganz, Caryn: The Curious Case of Nicki Minaj . OUT magazine. September 10, 2010. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
- ↑ Los Angeles Times: Nicki Minaj, Safaree Samuels break up after 12-year relationship. Retrieved August 7, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Nicki Minaj and Nas split after seven months of dating . In: Mail Online . ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed August 7, 2018]).
- ↑ Nicki Minaj: Your husband is a convicted sex offender. In: VIP.de. October 23, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Rapper Nicki Minaj married her boyfriend Kenneth Petty
- ↑ a b c Worldwide album sales On statisticbrain.com, June 12, 2016, English. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minaj, Nicki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maraj, Onika Tanya (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Rapper from Trinidad and Tobago |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago |