“I go hard, PAUSE! Hospital gon’get more GAUZE! I’ma bad bitch on all FOURS.”
Welcome to ItsNickiMinaj.com! After nearly 8 months, it brings me the utmost pleasure to welcome you all to your newest premiere resource, for all things Onika Tanya Maraj/Nicki Minaj. I have been a fan of Nicki’s since 2004 when I first heard her as the voice of a female wrestler Victoria from WWE’s theme song, “I Ain’t the Lady To Mess With.” At that point in time, I wasn’t aware that it was Nicki singing the song, but never the less enjoyed it every time I heard it. Fast forward to early 2009, I hear that voice again. I come to find out that Nicki has just put out her third mix-tape, and is now signed to the hip-hop crew known as Young Money.
I instantly have to look for every possible song she has put out and get to know the newest FeMC in the game. I have always enjoyed the Female MC’s that have come into the game and displayed their prowess ex: Trina, Eve, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Foxy Brown etc. but it was not until Nicki Minaj came out that I really became hooked on Hip-Hop/Rap music. To be honest, I always thought Rap, especially when performed by men, was the music industries way to degrade women. But as I mentioned earlier, when I started to listen to the Female MC’s spit their game on the tracks, I knew that it wasn’t even about degrading anybody at all. The ladies were dissing other ladies, and the men just as hard if not harder. This was put on full blast when I began researching Nicki Minaj and actually taking interest in her as a person, music artist, and as a woman. I listened to more Nicki Minaj songs in a month than all other songs by fellow and former Female MC’s. I was hooked!
2010 rolls around and Nicki is tearing up the charts while appearing on dozens of the games already seasoned vets tracks. As she said in Kanye West’s “Monster” collaboration feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, & Nicki Minaj…”50k for a verse, no album out!” Everybody wanted a piece of Minaj! From Usher, Mariah Carey, Yo Gotti, DJ Khaled, Diddy, Rick Ross, among other A-List names. Before 2010 came to a close, Nicki Minaj was intent on not only being featured on everybody else’s albums, but also dropping her first album Pink Friday in the 3rd quarter of November – (which I only had a digital copy of until I bought it just over a year later along with fellow YMCMB rapper, Drake’s sophomore album “Take Care.”) Sales were off the charts, at 375,000 in just the first week of its release, Pink Friday was the best first week selling album by a female artist just behind “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)” with 422,624 copies sold in its first week. Nicki also went on to become the first woman in Billboard Chart History to have 7-singles on the chart consecutively at the same time. At this point, she is already winning. With her #1 selling Single to date, “Super Bass” tearing up the charts, digital downloads, and views on YouTube, and Pink Friday have sold over 2Million copies world wide, nobody could touch Minaj, or take away her spot-light.
Upon entering 2011, Minaj still on her high from Pink Friday is already rolling out some new work with other artists, such as Drake, Big Sean, Willow Smith, Rick Ross, Birdman, and various others. Her most notable features of the year were perhaps the following…
1. Make Me Proud – Drake (feat. Nicki Minaj)
2. Y.U.Mad – Birdman (feat. Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne)
3. Dance A$$ (Remix) – Big Sean (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Drawing towards the end of 2011, fellow partner YMCMB crime, Birdman had explained that Nicki has already been working on her sophomore album and was looking to release it in the first quarter of 2012. By December of 2011, Minaj had released one snippet of what the album was going to be about called “Roman In Moscow” although it was not going to be on the album, rather what she described as “like the trailer to the movie, and only scratching the surface.” Nearing the end of December, Minaj released a promotional single called “Stupid Hoe” that would in fact be on the album, and would have a music video out the following year.
Originally, Nicki Minaj’s sophomore album, now dubbed “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” was originally scheduled to drop on February 14, (Valentines Day) 2012, but due to issues at the label, the album had to be pushed back until April 3, 2012. *BARBZ/KENBARBZ/BOIZ WERE NOT HAPPY!* I know I wasn’t. But despite the disappointment of the album not dropping when first expected, we all ended up getting way more than we had bargained for, just before the album was supposed to drop we got the Official Music Video for “Stupid Hoe”, we got to listen to, and watch in awe as Nicki performed at the Grammy awards a song off the album called “Roman Holiday”. We got Nicki releasing the new lead single “Starships” while on air with Ryan Seacrest, explaining that the original lead single “Va Va Voom” was dethroned, but would still be on the deluxe edition. We saw Nicki perform along side Pop-Queen & overall Music Legend, Madonna at the Super Bowl, and she followed that up by performing at the NBA All Starz Game. What a first couple of 2012 months it was for both Minaj and the Barbz!
April 3 the album drops, and I am already digitally downloading it off on iTunes on my iPhone @ 12:45AM because I lost track of the hour. I stayed up ALL night listening to every song in order, and since I got the deluxe edition, and ordered it from iTunes, I got some great bonus tracks, and an interview with Nicki, Charlemagne and Safaree “SB” Samuels. I have never purchased an album, 1. On the day it was released, and 2. listened to the entire thing non-stop, that same day or otherwise. As you can see, Nicki has taken me by storm, and is my favorite music artist of all time. No other artist, male or female has had this big of an impact on my life. The late great, R&B Queen Aaliyah, is the closest thing to Minaj in terms of such an impact on my life, and overview of the music industry as a whole. Missy Elliot is my favorite FeMC outside Nicki Minaj, and I cannot wait for her new album to drop in June this year. I’ll steal a lyric from British Blues/Pop singer Adele’s “21″ and say that, “Rumor has it” Nicki Minaj is supposed to be featured on it. But we shall see this come summer.
If by reading just how much I admire and know about Nicki’s career by heart hasn’t gotten to you, just wait until you see the dedication that I am going to put forth in this website. I don’t think any website I have had before will compare to ItsNickiMinaj.com, and I am grateful and thankful that God has brought me back to the world of web/fan sites so that I can continue to do something that I always win at. This is my world, and “Nobody can scare me out of my potential…It’s a scare tactic.” – Nicki Minaj
001. Pink Friday Studio Album (2010)
002. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Studio Album (2012)
003. Roman Holiday Short Film (2012)
004. M.A.C Viva Glam Nicki Lipstick (2012)
