WOnika Tanya Maraj-Petty, known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Born in the Saint James district of Port of Spain and raised in the Queens borough of New York City, she gained public recognition after releasing the mixtapes Playtime Is Over (2007), Sucka Free (2008), and Beam Me Up Scotty (2009).
WWinston Thomas, better known by his stage name BlackOut or DJ BlackOut, founder & CEO of BlackOut Movement, is an American Grammy Award Winning record producer, engineer and composer. Blackout is signed to Nicki Minaj's recording company Pink Friday Records. Blackout is also co-founder of the music tech startup company, RecordGram.
WTrinidadian-born American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj has released four studio albums, three compilation albums, three mixtapes, one-hundred and fifteen singles, and fifteen promotional singles.
WNicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-American rapper and songwriter. After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009, Minaj signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009. Since then, she has released four studio albums—Pink Friday in 2010, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded in 2012, The Pinkprint in 2014, and Queen in 2018.
WAmerican rapper Nicki Minaj has been featured in eighty-nine music videos, nine commercials, and four documentaries. Additionally, Minaj has featured in four films: the animated Angry Birds Movie 2 where she plays as a pink bird named Pinky, the animated Ice Age: Continental Drift Barbershop: The Next Cut in which she plays a sassy recruit named Draya, and The Other Woman, in which she played Lydia. In 2009 Minaj signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment, and released her first solo music video under the label in March 2010.
WThe Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour was the second concert tour and debut arena tour by Trinidadian recording artist Nicki Minaj to promote her second studio album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and its re-release Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up. It followed her first concert tour, Pink Friday Tour, which was extended with the Reloaded Tour due to high demands with fans wanting her to tour their cities.
WThe Super Bowl XLVI halftime show took place on February 5, 2012 at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana as part of Super Bowl XLVI. It featured Madonna and guests LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and CeeLo Green. In 2011, the National Football League (NFL) announced that Madonna would perform at the Super Bowl XLVI show. The singer collaborated with Cirque du Soleil for the show, where her longtime choreographer Jamie King was music director; King, in turn, enlisted the multimedia-show producer Moment Factory. Madonna performed four songs, beginning with "Vogue" in a Roman-Egyptian setting and followed by "Music" with LMFAO. Minaj and M.I.A. joined Madonna for her new single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'", and Madonna finished with Green on "Like a Prayer".
WThe Pinkprint is the third studio album by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj. It was released on December 15, 2014 by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records. Minaj co-executive-produced the album alongside Birdman, Lil Wayne and Ronald Williams, and the assistance of a variety of fellow producers. Looking to depart from the dance-pop elements of her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), Minaj wanted to make a follow-up record influenced by her traditional hip hop beginnings.