Nicki Minaj is a professional rapper, singer, and songwriter from Trinidad who was born Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty on December 8, 1982. She currently resides in the United States. She is renowned for her diverse musical taste, animated rapping style, alter egos, and accents. After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009, Minaj first became well-known. Pink Friday (2010), her debut album, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. Its fifth single, “Super Bass,” was certified diamond by the RIAA in 2021 and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), Minaj’s second album, combined dance-pop, and her singing, and it became a worldwide hit. “Starships,” the album’s lead single, reached the top five in fifteen different countries. Her third album, The Pinkprint (2014), showcased a return to her hip-hop roots and more in-depth personal themes. In 2021, the music video for its second single, “Anaconda,” which peaked at number two on the Hot 100, became the first solo female rapper’s music video to surpass one billion views on YouTube. In 2018, she released Queen, her fourth studio album, which featured the top-ten single “Chun-Li.”
Her and Karol G’s song “Tusa,” which peaked at number one on the Argentina Hot 100 chart in 2019, broke a record for the longest time. With her remix of Doja Cat’s “Say So” and her collaboration with 6ix9ine, “Trollz,” Minaj scored her first two Hot 100 number-one singles in 2020. She achieved the highest debut for a female rap mixtape on the Billboard 200 chart, at number two, with the re-release of her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty in 2021. Her upcoming fifth studio album’s lead single, “Super Freaky Girl,” made history by becoming the second solo rap song by a female artist to reach the top spot on the Hot 100.
Where did Nicki Minaj grow up?
Nicki Minaj is of African and Indian descent and was born in Trinidad and Tobago to parents who both sang Gospel music. At the age of five, Onika Maraj and her siblings moved to New York City to join her mother in the Queens borough, where she would grow up.
