Who is nicki Minaj ?

Onika Maraj born December 8, 1984 know as Nicki Minaj is a female rapper from Southside Jamaica,Queens,New York. She grew up in a trouble home, with a father on drugs and a struggling single mother.
Despite her hectic environment,Minaj went on to graduate from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan where she studied singing and acting. She worked as an administrative assistant, she dedicated all of her free time to pursuing a potential music career. Nicki Minaj started off singing. background vocals,to hooks for local rappers, Minaj wanted to "stand out" more than the average young singer and began writing rap music. starting out as the lone female in a group. (left group 2006) Nicki soon branched out and was noticed on Myspace by Dirty Money CEO Fendi, Who signed her and put her on the front of his label, and his "The Come Up" DVD.
Appearing on the carter edition of the DVD series, Minaj was noticed by rapper Lil Wayne who called Fendi to negotiate meeting Nicki. He was convinced by not only her different style or rapping but her ability to full on write her own material that she was perfect to be the face of his Young Money Label. The two collaborated on mixtapes styled remakes of tracks such as "Sunshine"," Big spender" and more recently a song entitled "higher than a kite" which uses T.I. "My Swag" beat.
In April of 2007, she released her first mixtape entitled "Playtime is Over". Where she posed as a Barbie doll on the cover. Lil Wayne appeared on the track " Can stop, wont stop. A year later, Nicki released her second mixed ch title "Sucka Free". Controversy hit Nicki when she paid tribute to rapper Lil Kim by posing with her legs spread for promotional posters. She describes it as something to pull people in. She was also featured in the July issue of the XXL Magazine.
Nicki Minaj boasts she started calling herself minaj because she started eating chicks with her vicious rap skills. pronounced "Menage".

Weather or not you know who she is. I guarantee you, your kids do.