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04/05/2011
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Nicki Minaj is prioritising her career over her love life.

The singer is worried that too much “romantic love” will distract her.

“nicki minaj say thta  no romance in my life at all, and it’s not important to me right now,”

“I have love for people who are on my team that I see every day and for my family, that’s what makes me do what I do. I also have love for people that I interact with. If I have too much of the romantic love, I feel like it will distract me. Right now I feel like a robot.

Lady GaGa is another singer to think along those lines.

Women have to make decisions and it’s the toughest thing ever. Is it a man or is it a career? I was with a man once who couldn’t understand that other things could come first she said.

I tried not to let them but then I was just unhappy I had to break away. I know I run the risk of being alone for ever but its the price I’ll have to pay.

I’d never let any man come before my career she added.

“I guess theres some fear inside of me which makes me this way. My music is never going to roll over in bed one morning and tell me that it doesn’t love me any more. I have a big problem with rejection But I am going to get there when i wanna be with somone. I like when the world don't gugh me that way i am or acting. I dont know why I am  so worg about people think about me but i just have to let it go and just go on with my life but most of the time it do 
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Onika Maraj (Born December 8, 1984) known as Nicki Minaj is a female rapper from Southside Jamaica, Queens, NewYork. She grow up in a troubled home, with a father on drugs and a struggling single mother. Nicki minaj didnt like her dad. 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, to hooks for local rappers. Minaj wanted to “stand out” more, from the average dime-a-dozen young aspiring singer and began writing raps. Starting out as the lone female in a group, (which she left in 2006)

Nicki soon branched out and was noticed on Myspace by Dirty Money CEO Fendi. Who signed her and put her on the front of his Dirty Money Label, and his The Come Up DVD.

Appearing on The Carter Edition of the DVD series, Minaj was noticed by rapper Lil’ Wayne who immediately called Fendi to negotiate meeting Nicki. He was convinced by not only her different style of rapping, but her ability to full on write her own material that she was perfect to be the face of his Young Money label. The two collaborated on mixtape styled remakes of tracks such as “Sunshine”, “Big Spender” and more recently a song entitled “Higher than a Kite” which uses T.I.’s “My Swag” beat. In April of 2007, she released her first mixtape entitled Playtime is Over. Where she posed as a Barbie doll on the cover. Lil’ Wayne appeared on the track “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”.

Nearly a year later, Minaj released her second mixed cd titled Sucka Free. Controversy surrounded this as Nicki paid tribute to rapper Lil’ Kim by posing with her legs spread for promotional posters. She describes it as something to “pull people in”, so that they would listen to what she had to say. Nicki Minaj graced the pages of the July issue of the XXL magazine giving a brief overview of her life up to that point in time.

Originally using her real last name Maraj, Nicki boasts she started calling herself Minaj because she started “eating chicks”, with her vicious rap skills. Its pronounced as Menage, only spelled to compliment her real last name with a J instead of the traditional spelling.

Aside from her original moniker, Minaj also uses an array of Aka aliases to describe herself, such as; “Nicki Lewenski”, and “AKA Sit on your favorite rapper’s face”
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In the new issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, Nicki Minaj reveals that her ambition stems from a painful childhood. Becuse nicki minaj want thouth alot with her parent so much stuff.

 

There’s this fear of not being perfect she says. There’s some songs I just wont write because Im afraid of it not meeting my expectation of what I know that song could be. I dont compete with other people.I compete with myself.

 

When I first came to America she says I would go in my room and kneel down at the foot of my bed and pray that God would make me rich so that I could take care of my mother. Because I always felt like if I took care of my mother my mother wouldn’t have to stay with my father and he was the one at that time that was bringing us pain! We didn’t want him around at all and so I always felt like being rich would cure everything and that was always what drove me.

 

Minajs father she says had problems with drugs and alcohol sold the family’s possessions for drugs, abused her mother and once set their house on fire while her mom was inside.

 

I remember there being a lot of arguing lots of screaming there were holes punched into the walls in anger she says and cops being called to the house all the time. I was disappointed in my father I just wanted him to be Daddy and be the happy person that I remembered, and I was afraid very afraid that something would happen to my mother. I had nightmares about it

 

Her parents still live together and her father isn’t happy about her airing his past she rapped vividly about it on the early track Autobiography It’s the price you pay when you abuse drugs and alcohol,” she says Maybe one day your daughter will be famous and talk to every magazine about it.Think about that dads out there who want to be crazy.
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