Onika Maraj (Born December 8, 1984) known as Nicki Minaj is a female rapper from Southside Jamaica. She grew up in Queens, New York. Nicki Minaj is of African-American, Trinidadian, and Indo-Asian desent. She lived in a troubled 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.
Working as an administrative assistant, she dedicated all of her free time to pursuing a potential music career. Nicki Minaj started off singing, from background vocals,...