Birth Name: Onika Tanya Maraj
Birth Place: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Date of Birth: December 8, 1984
Race or Ethnicity: Afro-Trinidadian and East Indian descent
The American musician and protege of Lil’ Wayne was born Onika Maraj in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. She is of Afro-Trinidadian and East Indian descent. This was mentioned on a blog on NYtimes.com.
On E! it was mentioned that her father is half African and Indian descent.
Source:
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/
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After seeing this I am convinced Nicki Minaj is black.
Rare footage of her rapping. She looks like a black girl. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sorry. I’m white and this girl look black to me. You are all fooled by the glamour and the make up.
Tell me this isnt a black girl – http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhmkJ3h7GY28YSU5K5
Case closed.
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Haha.. you all vote down my comment because it proves she is a black girl. You all are jealous of black people. Thats the real truth.
Everybody please view my comment above to see rare footage of Nicki rapping at the start of her career. Without the makeup, the contacts, the wig, and the implants.
SHE IS BLACK!
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she is 3/4 black 1/4 indian
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SHE IS BLACK
and
indians are black too
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OK f*k this, I’m Trini and yall need to step the fuck off our people and what we are. We don’t need Americans telling us what we are. Niki is a dougla girl enough at it. She’s Black and Indian.. stop trying to make her one thing because she isn’t and stop forcing your stupid racial ideas on us, because we Caribbean folk aren’t interested! of and african americans get a reality check, this is how black people look, go to haiti if you want to see black people: http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2010/01/20/haiti-crowds-cp-7978917.jpg
Niki would stand out like a soar thumb among them. You know why she blends in with African Americans? Because yall are mixed too! Sorry to tell you but most of yall have European blood, if you didn’t you guys would look like the people in that crowd.
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Although i don’t believe one drop of black makes you black i think black is beautiful , nothing wrong being black
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SHE IS BLACK
AND CONSIDERED BLACK
AFRO
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AND INDIAN PEOPLE PEOPLE ARE BLACK TOO
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Indians are but stupid
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Indians are asians stupid
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oh and one other thing…she was born 1982. not 84. FACT!
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NICKI MINAJ IS ONLY BLACK
THEY PUT HER ON THE BLACK WOMEN
MAGAZINE
BECAUSE SHE WAS BLACK
AHAHAH
I LAUGH BECAUSE
SHE ALWAYS CONSIDERED HERSELF AS BLACK
SINCE SHE LIVE IN THE GHETTO IN QUEENS
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When I went to High school with this girl she was just another lighter skinned black girl from Queens, NY. she gets a relaxer in her hair just like the rest of us. lol All this INDIAN talk is commical to me.
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Are you retarded? Seriously why do African Americans first of all think every black person is the same no matter ethnicity or nationality and secondly want to deny that any Afro descendant has non black ancestry? Most afro descendants in the americas have non black ancestry. sorry to tell you! and no one gives a fuck if she was just a black girl, in the caribbean and latin america people don’t follow your stank ass one drop rule
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Oh I so loved your answer! Whew! You couldn’t have summed it up better! Tell them!!!! Damn right African Americans you are suppose to be more intelligent than some of the responses I’m reading!!! Why the heck do you think we all have such different looks including 50 different complexions!!! Stop sounding like your slave masters! African-Americans are trying to force their views on people globally! Sad, Sad, Sad! Have you not learned anything in the past 300 plus years! I know for a fact that many of you are following foolish traditions of your parents and grandparents! STOP THIS! I am a former educator and believe me the views I am reading that say your just BLACK are more insulting han sounding like an educated person!!! What have you been learing ????? Mmmm let me see uh NOT MUCH!!!! Theres a saying that many of you need to adapt and it goes like this: WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER YOU DO BETTER!!!!
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Most people from the Caribbean are mixed and by the way in the Caribbean there’s no such thing as race or color
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Nicki Minaj is not black? Are you sure about that?
Then why is she shown here on the cover of Black Woman’s Magazine – http://hiphop-n-more.com/2010/08/nicki-minaj-covers-todays-black-woman-magazine/
Who cares what her genetics are. She considers herself black and that’s all that matters. I will listen to her before I listen to you..oh and I’m white, so no, this is not a “black thing”, this is me agreeing with how she see’s herself and the rest of the world see her – as a black woman. Move on already.
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Her dad probably cares… I wouldn’t want my kid to deny what they are.
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WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CHECKS A ETHNICITY OF
NICK MINAJ – THEY WOULD PUT BLACK
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not
black and part indo
hahahahaahhahaahahahhaha
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Now how stupid do you sound! Stating stupidity about who cares what her genetics are! YOU CANNOT DENY TRUTH, TRUTH!!!!! AND THE IDIOTS THAT AGREED WITH YOU R YOUR SLAVES! Your the last person anyone needs to listen to with this oppressive way of thinking! Oh and announcing that you are white only makes matters just that much worst! How dare you make such a blanket statement thinking you have the right to make it! YOU ARE AN OPPRESSOR FOLLOWING AFTTER YOUR RELATIVES WITH THAT DAMN ONE DROP BLOOD BULLSHIT!!!! I wouldn’t have told anyone that! I would have respected you more in the end! But to announce that you are white and that genetics don’t count is just down right ignorant! And the rest of you that followed this fool only supports how stupid most people in the world really are! Get some backbone and pickup a damn book ! I know I’m thinking correctly! Are you guys serious did you read what this fool said? Once again at the hands of the oppressor!!! I am furious and you should be too! Are you gonna agree with this fool if she says African people don’t come from royalty???? Are you? People you have to know when you are being mislead and flat out disrespected! This is her opinion! It is a fact that Nicki Minaj is from the carribean! Don’t you think her carribean brothers and sisters would know!?Eminem is a rapper who relates to the same troubles as some blacks is he black???? I’m warning some of you this is a dangerous game to play by relying totally on someone elses opinion is that states it is fact with no real fact! So what you think genetics don’t count when there are people of color????? So when your white your right????? Guess where we all are decendants of?????? AFRICA!!!!! YOU Better tell somebody!!!!!LOL!
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Don’t say the whole world sees her black how do you know? i don’t see her black and i was not born in America i also don’t believe in one drop makes you black as you do it doesn’t exist in my country .Nicki said she is black and indian not pure black so these means she doesn’t see herself black but mixed bigot.
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@The truth i am not a slave and you are not going to brainwash me you are not God and you can’t tell any one who they are , what to do , how to act and black people who thinks like you are slaves i have a mind of my own you don’t own me
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Erm… Do you call a packet of cheese and onion crisps -a packet of cheese crisps? even if the cheese in it has a higher percentage? no! you dont! because the onion flavour, no matter how small, can be tasted.
if i identify with a tiger or an elephant, it doesnt make it so! lol!
what am i? factually?genetically? if a drug was prescribed but people with indo-asian genes could not take it….i guess Nicki could take it cos she’s black right?!
Again-what are you? why ignore part of your heritage,especially as its her PARENTS not like it’s her great great great great great…well u get the picture. Oh and for those saying everyone is mixed….i think the genes from 1000 years ago (like in some african tribes) may be 0.00000001% now and features will never be apparent.unlike in nicki . So please, enjoy your wealth of culture and heritage, dont ignore part of you,even 20%, just so you can appeal to the masses or get ahead somehow! cos media prefers to put a light skinned ‘black’ girl with euro features and cast her off as full black.
Yes blacks (africans) have a variety of skin colours but they do not have european/asian features, which will in some way be apparent in you if your parents,grandparent and even great grandparents were of a different race. tis true,i kid you not!
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I love Nicki Minaj she is my idol. I have seen her real hair on a special and she has really long cooly hair.I am also Indo-Trinidadian on my mom side so I’m glad she’s from the West Indies. I love my Jamaicans,Trinis,Bajans,Guyanese,Grenadians,Vincentians,St.Lucians,Kittitians.Some of the best singers and rappers have West Indian background.
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no thats not her real hair
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NICKI MINAJ REPRESENT ONLY HER BLACK SIDE
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i dont know here this indo stuff COMES FROM
she cant even speak a word
she doesnt even look indo
SHE looks like a rich black girl from atl
stop
all that fake half indo shit
because her mom is black
and her dad is black and half indo
his indo mom might be black too
ahahah
you never know
she black
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ceq,u sound really ignorant,are u really nigerian?Micki would never stand out in Nigeria.Maybe it’s the fake weave that’s deceiving u,even with the plastic surgeries and bleaching,she looks full black.If she said she’s more than 1/4indian,she’d be a big lying bitch
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go on youtube and see her video called warning
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