Nylon Magazine Shoot (2010)

Nicki Minaj was born on December 8, 1984, and grew up in Queens, New York. She is of African, Trinidadian and Indo-Asian descent.[2] She graduated from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan where she studied 唱歌 and acting.[3]

Minaj was discovered on MySpace 由 Dirty Money CEO Fendi, who signed her to his Dirty Money label. After appearing on The Carter Edition of Young Money's The Come Up DVD series, Minaj was contacted 由 Lil Wayne. The two collaborated on a number of mixtape tracks.[4] In April 2007, she released her first mixtape, Playtime Is Over, where she posed as a 芭比娃娃 doll on the...