Nicki Minaj Biography, Age, Rapper and singer, Albums, Songs, Parents, Philanthropy, Musical style

Nicki Minaj Biography

 Nicki Minaj is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. She released her first studio album, Pink Friday after signing with Young Money Entertainment in 2009. Her real name is (Onika Tanya Maraj). She got into fame with her tracks like “Super Bass,” Starships,” and later “Anaconda.

Nicki gained public recognition after releasing the mixtapes Playtime Is Over (2007), Sucka Free (2008), and Beam Me Up Scotty (2009). Therefore the album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200. Eventually, it was a block of certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Minaj was the first female artist to be included on MTV’s annual Hottest MC List.

In 2016, she was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Minaj briefly signed with Brooklyn group Full Force, in which she rapped in a quartet called “The Hood$tars” composed of Lou$tar (son of “Bowlegged Lou”), Safaree Samuels (Scaff Beezy) and 7even Up.

Nicki Minaj Education

Nicki Minaj attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After her graduation, she wanted to become an actress, and she was cast in the Off-Broadway play In Case You Forget in 2001. She successfully auditioned for admission to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, which focuses on visual and performing arts.

At the age of 19, she struggled with her acting career, and she worked as a waitress at a Red Lobster in the Bronx but she was fired for discourtesy to customers. She said she was fired from “at least 15 jobs” for similar reasons.

Nicki Minaj Rapper and singer

She has often been referred to as the “Queen of Rap”, and she has also been considered to be one of the most influential female rap artists. In 2009 after signing with Young Money Entertainment, she released her first studio album, Pink Friday (2010), which peaked number one on the US Billboard 200 and was ultimately certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

She has a second album, known as Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was released in 2012 and debuted number one in several countries. She then made her film debut in the 2012 animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift. She was a judge on the twelfth season of American Idol in 2013. Her third studio album, The Pinkprint, was released in 2014.

She later played supporting roles in the films The Other Woman (2014) and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016). Her fourth studio album, Queen, was released in 2018. Minaj was known early in her career for her colorful costumes and wigs. Her rapping is distinctive for its fast flow and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily British cockney.

She was the first female artist to be included on MTV’s annual Hottest MC List. In 2016, Nicki was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Nicki as a lead artist, she has earned multiple top-ten entries on the Billboard Hot 100: “Super Bass” in 2011, “Starships” in 2012, “Bang Bang” and “Anaconda”, both in 2014, “MotorSport” in 2017, and “Chun-Li” in 2018.

She has also scored the additional top-ten entries as a featured artist on a slew of hits. She has then accumulated the most Hot 100 Billboard entries among women of all genres. She has also broken other records including the most top 10 hits among women on the Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Airplay chart. She has been called one of the most influential female rap artists of all time and has often been dubbed as the “Queen of Rap” by the media.

Throughout her career, she has received numerous accolades, including six American Music Awards, 11 BET Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, two Billboard Women in Music Awards, and 10 Grammy Award nominations. Minaj has sold 30 million singles as a lead artist, 60 million singles as a featured artist, and over five million albums worldwide, making her one of the world’s best-selling music artists.

Nicki Minaj Age

Nicki was born on 8 December 1982 in Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad, and Tobago and she was raised in Queens, New York City. She is 37 years old as of 2019.

Nicki Minaj Family

Nicki was born in Saint James, Port of Spain to Carol Maraj, (mother) her mother Carol Maraj is of Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian ancestry. Her father, Robert Maraj,  is a financial executive and part-time gospel singer. She has four siblings, two sisters Maya (older) and Ming (younger), and two brothers Jelani(oldest) and Micaiah(younger).

Carol worked in payroll and accounting departments during Minaj’s youth. Her father was addicted to alcohol and other drugs, and had a violent temper, burning down their house in December 1987. Her mother, who had moved to The Bronx in New York City to attend Monroe College, brought the family to Queens when Minaj was five. By then, the family had a house on 147th Street.

Nicki Minaj Boyfriend

In 2014, Minaj separated from her longtime boyfriend Safaree Samuels whom he has been dating since 2000. Several tracks on The Pinkprint are believed to have been inspired by the end of their relationship. She was then in a high profile relationship with rapper Meek Mill before she confirmed their split in January 2017.

Months later, there was speculation that she was dating rapper Nas after the two appeared in a picture together on her Instagram account. As of Oct 22, 2019, she married Kenneth Petty after a year of dating.

Nicki Minaj Boyfriend Kenneth Petty Accusations

Petty is a registered, Level 2 sex offender on New York State’s Sex Offender Registry. He was assessed as posing a medium risk of committing another offense. According to the registry, in April 1995, Petty was convicted of attempted first-degree rape for a 1994 assault that occurred when both he and the victim were 16. It also notes that he used a knife or cutting instrument during the commission of the crime.

He was sentenced to between 18 and 54 months in state prison. According to the New York State Department of Corrections records, he served just under four years and was released in January of 1999. The DOC website says that in 2006, Petty went back to prison for the first-degree manslaughter and served nearly seven years before being released on parole in May 2013.

Nicki Minaj Body Measurements

Height: 5 ft 2 in or 157 cm
Weight: 62 kg or 137 pounds
Shoe Size: 7 (US) or 37.5 (EU)
Dress Size: 12 (US) or 44 (EU)
Body Shape: 40-28-45 in or 102-71-114 cm
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Bra size: 34F
Ethnicity: American, Trinidadian

Nicki Minaj Salary

  • Annual: $29,000,000.00
  • Monthly: $2,416,666.67
  • Weekly: $557,692.31
  • Daily: $111,538.46

Nicki Minaj Net Worth

Nicki Minaj is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model who has an estimated net worth of $85 million dollars.

Nicki Minaj 2018–present: Queen, hiatus, and upcoming fifth studio album

She officially announced her fourth album, Queen, on the red carpet at the 2018 Met Gala; the album was scheduled to be released on June 15, 2018. Its lead single, “Chun-Li”, was released on April 12, 2018, and peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Another single, “Barbie Tingz”, was also released alongside “Chun-Li”, but ultimately did not make the final album cut.

It is, however, included in the Target version of the album. A promotional single, “Rich Sex”, featuring American rapper Lil Wayne, was released on June 11, 2018. The album’s second single, “Bed”, featuring Ariana Grande, was released on June 14, 2018, alongside the album pre-order, and peaked at number 42 on the Hot 100.

On May 19, 2018, Minaj was the musical guest for the finale of the 43rd season of Saturday Night Live; the show was hosted by Tina Fey and Minaj performed “Chun-Li” and “Poke It Out”, alongside rapper Playboi Carti. Minaj later announced via her Instagram account that she was pushing back the release date of Queen from June 15 to August 10, 2018.

In June 2018, Nicki released her cover art for the album on Twitter, shot by Mert and Marcus, which features her topless, wearing pasties, with a Cleopatra-inspired head-dress, and revealed that her next tour would be a double-header with rapper Future. On June 23, 2018, she performed a medley of “Chun-Li” and “Rich Sex” at the 2018 BET Awards.

On July 22, 2018, Tekashi 6ix9ine’s single “Fefe”, which featured Minaj, debuted at number four, and later peaked at number three, on the Billboard Hot 100. “Fefe” marked Minaj’s highest bow on the Hot 100 chart as a featured artist, besting the number six start of “Bang Bang” in 2014. Minaj was also featured on 6ix9ine’s song “Mama”, along with Kanye West.

Both songs were included on 6ix9ine’s debut album Dummy Boy. Nicki Minaj received backlash for her choice to collaborate with 6ix9ine for their 2018 collaborative single “Fefe” due to charges of sexual abuse against him. On August 1, 2018, Minaj pushed back Queen once again, to August 17, 2018. Minaj ultimately released Queen on August 10, 2018, a week ahead of schedule.

The day before the release of the album, Minaj launched her own Beats 1 radio show, Queen Radio. Queen debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 185,000 album-equivalent units, of which 78,000 came from pure album sales. It also debuted at number five in the UK and at number four in Australia, marking the highest debut of Minaj’s career in the latter country.

Upon her second debuting on the Billboard 200, Nicki expressed frustration and criticized several people in a series of tweets, including Travis Scott, whose album Astroworld claimed to be the top spot for a second week in a row, blocking Queen from number one. Queen’s roll-out and the ensuing controversy was criticized by several news outlets and commentators.

“Fefe” was added to the album in the middle of its first tracking week. Queen received generally favorable reviews, though some critics took issue with the album’s length and lyrical content. Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone wrote that Queen “brings a new Nicki Minaj character: the regal, haughty monarch, a woman who insists on sword-sharpened rhymes as a prerogative for excellence”, however, noted it to have “a flabby, meandering mid-section”.

In a mixed review, Bryan Rolli of Forbes concluded that Queen is “a great 10-song album hiding inside a messy 19-song album”, though complimented Minaj’s lyricism, and said the album “gives fans plenty to sink their teeth into”. For The Washington Post, Chris Richards said, “Queen only feels connected to the current rap zeitgeist in the saddest way as another portrait of a visionary rapper in decline […] A great Nicki Minaj comeback album would be the first great Nicki Minaj album, period.”

Before her release of Queen, she did a guest appearance on VH1 TV show Black Ink Crew: Chicago which aired on August 1, 2018, where she is seen getting a tattoo from the cast member Ryan who is an artist and owner of the shop 9Mag. Following the release of Queen, Minaj released a music video for the album’s opening track, “Ganja Burn”. “Barbie Dreams” was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio on August 14, 2018, as the album’s third single.

On August 20, Minaj won her fourth MTV Video Music Award for the “Chun-Li” music video, at the 35th annual ceremony. Later that month, BTS’ single, “Idol”, featuring Minaj, was released; it debuted and peaked at number 11 on Billboard Hot 100, marking it as the group’s second highest-charting song. On September 2, 2018, Minaj co-headlined the annual Made in America Festival.

The following week, on September 4, Minaj appeared as a guest and performed several songs on The Ellen Degeneres Show.[ Throughout the episode, Minaj and Degeneres, with the participation of Walmart, gave out over $150,000 in donations to fans. On October 12, 2018, the British girl group Little Mix released their single, “Woman Like Me”, which features Minaj.

The single debuted at number 5 in the UK. A music video, which features Minaj wearing “Elizabethan ruff and not much else”, was released the same month. A BBC writer opined that the video “tackle[s] gender stereotypes”. Minaj was featured on Tyga’s song “Dip”, which reached number 63 on the Hot 100, becoming her 100th entry on the chart, thus extending her record as the female artist with the most entries and fourth overall.

In December 2018, it was announced that Minaj would have a voice role in The Angry Birds Movie 2, released in August 2019. In November 2018, Minaj was invited to the DWP music festival in China. It was supposed to be her first appearance in China, but she didn’t perform on the stage due to problems with the Chinese company she worked with. Later, she said, “I will find a better partner and then come back to China to bring better performances to fans.”

In April 2019, Minaj made a guest appearance at the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival during Ariana Grande’s set. She performed alongside Grande to their collab hits such as “Side to Side” and “Bang Bang”. Minaj’s appearance was praised despite the technical difficulties that occurred in which Minaj’s earpiece was not working. In April 2019, a news report reveals that Nicki Minaj has decided to part ways with her longtime management team.

The report reveals that Minaj and her management team of Gee Roberson, Cortez Bryant, and Blueprint/Maverick Management have mutually decided to separate. In June 2019, Minaj released her first solo song of 2019, titled “Megatron”. In July, she provided information on her forthcoming fifth studio album, appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon stating “You’re the first to find out … of course, there’s a new album.”

She appeared on the song “Hot Girl Summer” alongside Megan Thee Stallion in August 2019, which debuted and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. On November 1, 2019, Minaj appeared on the Charlie’s Angels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on the song “Bad To You”, along with Ariana Grande and Normani. The song peaked at 51 in the UK.

On November 7, 2019, “Tusa”, Minaj’s collaboration with Colombian singer Karol G was released to streaming platforms. The track later peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 1 on many other charts, notably the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. As of January 2020, Minaj was yet to break her silence online after announcing a hiatus from social media on November 9, 2019.

The rapper did not make any recorded public appearances aside from her attendance at the Billboard Women in Music event on December 12th, In which she was awarded the Game Changer Award after “becoming the first woman to notch 100 appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 chart”. She returned to both Twitter and Instagram on January 30, 2020, to announce her appearance as a guest judge on the premiere episode of the twelfth season on the American reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race.

The next day, her collaboration with American singer Meghan Trainor entitled “Nice to Meet Ya” was released accompanied by a music video. Soon after posting a snippet of a new, untitled track, Minaj announced that she would be officially returning to music with her first solo song of 2020, titled “Yikes” which would be released on February 7, 2020.

Nicki Minaj Musical style

Nicki Minaj is known for her animated rapping style and her unique flow. Her rapping distinctive for its speed and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily with British cockney. She often sings and raps in her songs and combines metaphors, punch lines, and wordplay into her work. The alter egos are incorporated with her lyrics in British accents (Roman Zolanski) or soft-spokenness (Harajuku Barbie).

Ice-T talked about Minaj’s rapping style, “[Minaj] does her thing. She has her own way of doing it. She has an ill vocal delivery. She kind of reminds me of a female Busta Rhymes, like how she throws her voice in different directions.” The New York Times called Minaj “a sparkling rapper with a gift of comic accents and unexpected turns of phrase.

She’s walking in an exaggeration, outsize in sound and personality looks. She is also a rapid evolver, who discards the old modes easily and adopting new ones.” Although many critics describe her technique as bubblegum rap, Minaj said: “What people don’t know is that before I was doing that craziness I was doing me, I was just doing regular sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with.

But once I started doing all that weird shit I’m not mad at it because it got everyone’s attention.” Noted as a rap artist, she lends herself to electronic music genres (especially electropop). Pink Friday marked her exploration of the genres, spawning electro songs including the pop-laden “Super Bass”.

Also combining rap with synthesizer music, Minaj’s second album had a number of electro-hop and electro-pop songs: “HOV Lane”, “Whip It”, “Automatic”, “Come on a Cone”, “Young Forever”, “Fire Burns”, “Roman Holiday” and “Beez in the Trap”; while “Starships” is a Eurodance song.

She collaborated with other artists in producing more electronic songs: “The Boys” with singer Cassie and “Beauty and a Beat” with Justin Bieber. Her verse on Kanye West’s “Monster” was critically acclaimed and contributed greatly to her popularity, and many critics said she had the best verse in the song. Her verse was listed by Complex as the best rap verse of the 2010s. West claimed at one point he considered deleting her verse from the track because he was worried it would outshine his own work.

Nicki Minaj Retirement Announcement

The singer took to fans by surprise on Thursday sept. 5, 2019 on twitter with an announcement that she was retiring from the music business to start a family. Nicki said in June 2019, that she planned to marry boyfriend Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, and in August she changed her Twitter name to Mrs.Petty but did not give more details about the wedding.

Nicki Minaj Concert

Wednesday 29 January 2020 Mr. Jones, Miami Beach, FL, US

Nicki Minaj First Song

Playtime Is Over is her first mixtape released on July 5, 2007, through Dirty Money Records.

Nicki Minaj Look-Alike

A college student named Jaiah Fern got all dolled up for her birthday outing earlier this week but the internet soon drew parallels to an actual real-life doll: Barbie, a.k.a. Nicki Minaj, a.k.a. Nicki Lewinsky, a.k.a. you get the point.

Nicki Minaj Philanthropy

Katy Perry (left) and Minaj (right) perform for service members during the 2010 VH1 Divas Salute the Troops concert. In 2010, Minaj performed for service members during the 2010 VH1 Divas Salute the Troops concert. In 2012, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Minaj donated $15,000 to the Food Bank For New York City and held a turkey drive at her alma mater, PS 45.

In May 2017, Minaj offered via Twitter to pay college tuition fees and student loans for 30 of her fans. She appeared to grant their requests, ranging from $500 to school supplies to $6,000 for tuition, promising to respond to more requests in a month or two. She also announced that she would launch an official charity for student loans and tuition payments in the near future.

In the same month, Minaj revealed on Instagram that she has been donating money to a village in India for a few years via her pastor, Lydia Sloley. These donations helped the village get a computer center, a tailoring institute, a reading program, and two water wells. “This is the kind of thing that makes me feel the most proud”, she said about the new additions to the village.

In August 2017, after Hurricane Harvey hit the city of Houston, Texas, Minaj answered a social media challenge by comedian and actor Kevin Hart and donated $25,000 to the Red Cross, saying she was “praying for everyone there”.

Nicki Minaj Controversies

In July 2018, Nicki Minaj received backlash for her choice to collaborate with 6ix9ine for their collaborative single “Fefe”. That year, the controversial rapper had pleaded guilty to one felony count after posting explicit videos of his sexual performance with a 13-year-old child in 2015. Fellow American rapper Azealia Banks criticized Minaj in a series of tweets and Instagram posts for both collaborating and touring with 6ix9ine.

She said, “I’m sorry. Dude gets convicted and you ’re still trying to help him out of it? That is very dark,” and described working with 6ix9ine as a “slap [to] all of your 8-15-year-old fans and their moms in the face”. She added that “pedophilia is absolutely gross and evil. Anyone who supports that shit is a lunatic”.

Nicki Minaj’s decision to work with him on the single and the sexually provocative nature of its music video was criticized as willfully ignorant in the wake of the #MeToo movement. An article published on Pitchfork discussed at length the cultural normalization of predatory behavior.

Nicki Minaj responded by pointing out that “Do What U Want,” the 2013 collaboration single of Lady Gaga and R. Kelly, had been praised by the very same publication despite public allegations of child pornography against him. She called the move bullying and claimed this demonstrated a double standard within the music industry. After numerous requests, Nicki Minaj, later on, deleted her tweets.

Nicki Minaj Awards and nominations

Throughout her career, Minaj won numerous awards, including six American Music Awards, Ten BET Awards, Seven BET Hip Hop Awards, Four Billboard Music Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, Six MTV Europe Music Awards, Two People’s Choice Awards, One Soul Train Music Award, and Four Teen Choice Awards.

Between 2011 and 2016, Minaj received a total of 10 Grammy Award nominations.  She received her first Grammy nomination in 2010 for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the single “My Chick Bad” with fellow rapper Ludacris. For the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012, Minaj received three nominations, including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album for her debut album Pink Friday.

Minaj received her second nomination for Best Rap Album at the 58th Grammy Awards for The Pinkprint. Minaj won the American Music Awards for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album in three different years for her first three albums. She has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video three times, for “Super Bass”, “Anaconda”, and “Chun-Li”, and has won the Best Female Video Award once, for “Starships”.

Nicki Minaj Albums

  • Pink Friday
  • Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
  • The Pinkprint
  • Queen
  • Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up
  • We Are Young Money
  • Rich Gang
  • Rise of an Empire
  • Playtime Is Over
  • Sucka Free
  • Beam Me Up Scotty
  • No Peaceful Surrender 2015
  • Dutty Classics Collection 2017
  • Coming to America 2, 2013

Nicki Minaj Live Concert

Nicki Minaj All Songs

  • All Things Go
  • Anaconda
  • Automatic
  • Barbie Tingz
  • Beautiful Sinner
  • Bed Of Lies
  • Beez In The Trap
  • Black Barbies
  • Blazin
  • Buy a Heart
  • Champion
  • Check It Out
  • Chun-Li
  • Come On A Cone
  • Did It On ‘Em
  • Favorite
  • Feeling Myself
  • Fire Burns
  • Fly
  • Four-Door Aventador
  • Freedom
  • Get on Your Knees
  • Girls Fall Like Dominoes
  • Grand Piano
  • Gun Shot
  • High School
  • HOV Lane
  • I Am Your Leader
  • I Lied
  • I’m Legit
  • I’m The Best
  • Last Chance
  • Lookin Ass Nigga
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Masquerade
  • Massive Attack
  • Moment 4 Life
  • No Frauds
  • Only
  • Pills N Potions
  • Pound The Alarm
  • Regret in Your Tears
  • Right By My Side
  • Right Thru Me
  • Roman Holiday
  • Roman in Moscow
  • Roman Reloaded
  • Roman’s Revenge
  • Save Me
  • Sex In the Lounge
  • Starships
  • Stupid Hoe
  • Super Bass
  • The Boys
  • The Crying Game
  • The Night Is Still Young
  • Trini Dem Girls
  • Truffle Butter
  • Up In Flames
  • Va Va Voom
  • Want Some More
  • Whip It
  • Win Again
  • Yasss Bish
  • Young Forever
  • Your Love

Frequently Asked Questions About XYZ

Who is Nicki Minaj?

Nicki is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model.

How old is Nicki Minaj?

She is 37 years old as of 2019.

How tall is Nicki Minaj?

She stands at a height of 5feet 2inches

Is Nicki Minaj married?

Yes, she is married and she is married to Kenneth Petty.

How much is Nicki Minaj worth?

She has an estimated net worth of $85 million dollars.

How much does Nicki Minaj make?

She makes an income of $21 million dollars.

Where does Nicki Minaj live?

She lives in a house that is gated in Beverly Hills mansion sitting high in the Hollywood hillside.

Is Nicki Minaj dead or alive?

She is still alive and in good health.

What ethnicity is Nicki Minaj?

American, Trinidadian

Nicki Minaj Social Media

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