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NICKI MINAJ BIOGRAPHY

Onika Maraj (Born December 8, 1984) known as Nicki Minaj is a female rapper from Southside Jamaica, Queens, NewYork. She grew up in a troubled home, with a father on drugs and a struggling single mother. 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”

Rihana dating Eminem

Eminem latest album Recovery and Rihanna’s latest album Rated R released recently there are couple of songs like I Love The Way You Lie of Rihanna Album which was done by Eminem as a co-star. So let’s get to the track: They are great business partner as well as friends. There was a Rumor reported by E! ZINE MAG that Eminem and Rihanna was dating in Canada after a Press Conference of the latest album Recovery.

So the story was after the press conference they were dating at the hotel’s terrace where Rihanna was caught drinking wine on Camera. According to people and poll suggestions they are rock stars but they do have their personal live but who cares!

Rihanna

Rihanna has revealed the title of her fifth studio album.

The singer, whose previous album Rated R came out last year, will release her new LP Loud in November.

The 'Rude Boy' star announced the news while chatting to fans on her official website, claiming that the LP takes her music to "the next step".

Responding to fans' questions, she said: "I’m done recording the whole album.

in her own words she said "I didn’t want to go backward and remake Good Girl Gone Bad. I wanted the next step in the evolution of Rihanna, and it’s perfect for us."

She added: "I'm gonna miss the Rated R era too, but NOTHING compares to the album I just made."

The record's first single 'Only Girl (In The World) has already been released

Riri also confirmed details of her new fragrance 'Reb'L Fleur', which is named after a tattoo on her neck that reads "Rebelle Fleur".

Idd Ul Fitr

Kenyans will celebrate Idd Ul Fitr on Saturday the 11th of September and not Friday as earlier thought after the government gazette the day as a public holiday.

The day marks the end of a month-long fast among Muslims observing the Ramadhan.

According to a statement from Government Spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua Friday and Monday are normal working days.

50 & Ciara married!!!
50 Cent has announced that he is getting married.

As unbelievable as it sounds..well he has.

The rapper-turned-actor revealed on Twitter that he proposed to his girlfriend, who is rumoured to be R&B star Ciara, and is planning on getting married in the near future.

The 35-year-old wrote: "Good morning I was so high after the show last night. I got engaged. I love me so, Sept 6 I'm getting married."

Last week, 50 Cent insisted that he was giving up Twitter to concentrate on completing his new album.

Will he actually go through with it or is he just trying to cause a stir as usual? i guess we will just have to wait and see.