Three years ago, Minaj was an unknown from 50 Cents neighborhood trying to get noticed on MySpace. Her mom had filled her childhood home with music I knew the whole Diana Ross collection before I was , she says) but her father introduced her to violence. On the 2008 track Autobiography, she raps about how her drug-addicted dad tried to burn down the family’s house with her mom still inside. Despite the turmoil — or perhaps because of it — young Nicki was passionately creative. She wrote her first rhyme before she turned 12 the name, chocolate chip is the flavor / Suck up my style like a cherry Life Saverâ€) and attended LaGuardia High School, the arts academy immortalized in Fame, where she studied drama and generated plenty of it.
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