Nicki Minaj: Conquering Hip-Hop

By Felicity Britton

As USA TODAY, The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, Nicki Minaj is a "hip-hop comet...a talented rhyme-spitter who fluidly shifts from hard-core grit to Barbie-doll cute." Growing up poor in Queens, New York, with a drug- and alcohol-addicted father, Minaj dreamed of being a soap opera star so she could afford to buy her mother a house. When Minaj was in her early twenties, a street mix tape got her noticed. Just a few years later, she blasted into the mainstream with seven singles in the Hot 100, beat out many of the boys with her ranking as MTV's No. 4 best Hip-Hop MC, and scored her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. And, says Minaj, she's just getting started

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467708100
• ISBN13: 9781467708104
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary