Nicki Minaj will get the Rising Star Award
On Wednesday, Billboard announced Nicki
Minaj will get the Rising Star Award at the upcoming Women in Music Event
on Dec. 2. "Pink Friday" helped her become the first female rapper in
a decade to top the Billboard 200.
Let us see their little background..Onika
Tanya Maraj born December 8, 1982,
better known by her stage name Nicki
Minaj is a Trinidadian-born
American recording artist signed to Young
Money Entertainment. She was born in Saint
James, Trinida and Tobago, but
moved to the Queens borough of New
York City at age five.
Minaj began her music career in 2007 after she released her first mixtape
Playtime Is Over. The mixtape was followed by the mixtapes Sucka Free and Beam Me Up Scotty which were released in 2008 and 2009,
respectively. Minaj had her first label success after fellow American rapper
Her 2010 debut album, Pink Friday, quickly became a
commercial success, peaking at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 and being
certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) a month after its
release. She became the first artist ever to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her second single, "Your Love",
reached first on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart.
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