Nicki Minaj
Author | : Felicity Britton |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781467710602 |
ISBN-13 | : 1467710601 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: As USA TODAY, The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, Nicki Minaj is a "hip-hop comet...a talented rhyme-spitter who fluidly shifts from hard-core grit to Barbie-doll cute." Growing up poor in Queens, New York, with a drug- and alcohol-addicted father, Minaj dreamed of being a soap opera star so she could afford to buy her mother a house. When Minaj was in her early twenties, a street mix tape got her noticed. Just a few years later, she blasted into the mainstream with seven singles in the Hot 100, beat out many of the boys with her ranking as MTV's No. 4 best Hip-Hop MC, and scored her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. And, says Minaj, she’s just getting started!