![]() ![]() ![]() He doesn't instil fear in people any more."ĭid that shape her attitude to drink and drugs and men? "Yeah. Eventually they started going to church a lot, and he got saved and started changing his life. How old was she when her parents separated? She looks at me, surprised. Whenever we got to a new house, he would find us." "We moved so many times when I was a kid. He didn't do anything to me or my brother that made us feel we had to fear him. I wasn't afraid for myself but for my mother. I was very, very afraid that he would snap. You could see it on the person and feel it in the room." Was she scared of him? "Of course. It's weird, because when he was on crack, he was more peaceful, and when he would drink, he became loud and violent. ![]() Her father sounds like a nightmare, I say. Her father has said that her claims are exaggerated. That night, she says her father did try to burn down the house – Minaj's mother, the only one at home, managed to escape. One night she dreamed her husband had burned down the house, and the next day told the children to sleep at a friend's house. Her mother worked as a nursing assistant and did her best to keep Nicki and her younger brother safe. Sometimes, she has claimed, she would return home to find furniture missing – flogged to fuel his addictions. She says her father was an alcoholic and drug addict. In all the books I read, there were big houses and they had all this nice stuff and I always wished that could be my family." "It was an escape." From what? "Bbbbrrrrrrrrrr," she says, with an impeccable impersonation of a ringing phone. She says she read her way through much of her childhood. At the age of five she joined them in Queens, New York. Minaj, 29, was born in Trinidad and brought up by her grandmother while her parents made a new life for themselves in America. Nicki Minaj on the Ellen show with two young fans. In the song, a tribute to "a hell of a guy" who sells coke, and a warning to the ladies who might have their eye on him, Minaj raps: "When he give me that look/Then the panties comin' off, unh." On the Ellen show, the girls sing a cleaned-up version, but it is still disarming: a collision of two very different worlds. ![]() She is now probably best known for a performance of Super Bass on the Ellen show, which she gave with eight-year-old fan Sophia Grace Brownlee, backed by her five-year-old cousin Rosie – it's been viewed on YouTube more than 38m times. She says she might return, and presumes her fans will wait for her – she might be back by the time you're reading this.Īstonishingly, Minaj, best known for down and dirty raps that outfilth the boys, has found a new niche audience – little girls who still play with Barbies and wear long pink dresses in homage to her. Or rather, she did have before she decided on the spur of the moment to quit Twitter last week because a fan had leaked her songs. Minaj has just released her second solo album, and it has topped the US and UK charts. Now she's on the verge of being ridiculously famous in her own right – and in the most unlikely manner. In 2010, she featured on seven singles in the US charts – a record. "OK, that's enough."įor years, Minaj rapped for the stars – she had bit parts on hits by Ludacris, Lil Wayne, who mentored her, and perhaps most famously Kanye West, for whom she contributed a brilliantly grotesque solo on Monster. "Let me see what it looks like," she says. She walks over to him, wiggling her astonishing cartoon bottom like a rudder. "I think that's enough, thank you," she says. He's got more, and less, than he bargained for. Then she kittens up to the camera, pouts, thrusts, threatens, giggles and pleads. "No close-ups," the rapping pop star growls. I've never seen anything quite like it – so incisive, dramatic and bossy. ![]()
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