Latest Release
- APR 19, 2024
- 1 Song
- Pink Friday (Complete Edition) · 2010
- ye · 2018
- Pink Friday (Complete Edition) · 2010
- The Pinkprint (Bonus Tracks) · 2014
- Believe (Deluxe Edition) · 2012
- Pink Friday ... Roman Reloaded (Deluxe Edition) · 2012
- Yikes - Single · 2020
- Pink Friday 2 · 2023
- The Pinkprint (Bonus Tracks) · 2014
Essential Albums
- Audacious booty-popping bangers and tender confessionals show the best of both Nickis on this sweeping, star-packed third record. Yes, menacing street tracks like “Four Door Aventador”—and cameos from Drake, Meek Mill and Li’l Wayne—will sate the hardcore. But there are innovative, chart-ready surprises too. “Feeling Myself” is a Beyoncé-backed masterpiece of female empowerment and G-funk swagger, “Anaconda” gives us four minutes of deranged, rump-shaking perfection, and closing ballad “Grand Piano” finds hip hop’s queen of hyperactive characterisation daring to show us herself.
- Nicki Minaj’s guest verse on Kanye West’s “Monster” established her as a gargantuan MC, but her debut album solidified her star. She proves that iconic guest spot was no one-off by breathing white-hot fire on the equally aggressive “Roman’s Revenge” and “Did It On ‘Em,” but Minaj can do more than just go for the jugular: She shows off her singing chops on the more melodic pop of “Right Thru Me” and tunes her flow to hyperactive mode on club-ready banger “Super Bass.”
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Her lightning-speed flow and verbal trickery hypercharged the pop world.
- Nicki's videos are just like her raps: awesome.
- Every song Nicki Minaj is performing on her hit-packed, over-the-top 2024 tour.
- Level up with the Harajuku Barbie and her most upbeat tracks.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- From hits to deep cuts, breaking down the samples that have inspired one of music’s most vital artists.
Compilations
- BIA & Nicki Minaj
- Mr Eazi & Major Lazer
Radio Shows
- Nicki tells it like it is.
- The Queen talks Pink Friday 2 with Ebro Darden.
- The Queen talks Pink Friday 2 with Ebro Darden.
- The Queen talks Pink Friday 2 with Ebro Darden.
- The team celebrates the release of Pink Friday 2.
- The artist on her song “Last Time I Saw You.”
- We connect the dots in Queens, from Nas to Nicki Minaj.
- Why Nicki had every reason to brag after “Beez in the Trap.”
About Nicki Minaj
Few artists have impacted 21st-century rap like Nicki Minaj. Born Onika Tanya Maraj in Trinidad and Tobago in 1982 but raised mostly in Queens, Minaj attended Manhattan’s prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the inspiration for the movie Fame) before trying to make it as an actor—a past evidenced by the deep performative streak that runs through her music today. Turning to rap in her twenties, Minaj quickly became one of the brightest stars in Lil Wayne’s Young Money universe. Her work—shape-shifting, ferocious, cartoonish, and often filled with oddball voices and alter egos—is as capable of breaking hearts (“Super Bass”) as it is detaching heads (her breakout verse on Kanye West’s 2010 “Monster,” in which she arguably outshined both West and fellow guest JAY-Z). Minaj’s electrifying presence has also made her a secret weapon in the pop world, where she’s just as likely to share credits with David Guetta and Justin Bieber as Ludacris and Future. On top of her own success, Minaj helped rap—and rap audiences—look past narratives of gritty realism for something fluid and playful but no less genuine or powerful. Railing against the double standard faced by women in entertainment, the outspoken Minaj once told MTV: “You have to be a beast. That’s the only way they respect you.” She continued showing the virtues of beast mode throughout the 2010s and 2020s, unloading dynamic projects like Pink Friday ... Roman Reloaded (2012), The Pinkprint (2014), Queen (2018), and Pink Friday 2 (2023). With each release, Minaj blended sharp pop instincts with the skills of a seasoned rap technician. And with her collaborations alongside the likes of Ice Spice and BIA, she has cannily bridged her generation and theirs—a Queen for all seasons.
- HOMETOWN
- Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago
- BORN
- December 8, 1982
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap