Nicki Minaj
LOS ANGELES – APR 21: Nicki Minaj arrives to the The Bridge” Season 2 Premiere Screening on April 21, 2014 in Westwood, CA Photo by DFree/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Onika Tanya Maraj
Place of Birth: Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Date of Birth: December 8, 1982
Ethnicity: Trinidadian [African, one quarter Indian, possibly one eighth Japanese]
Nicki Minaj is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, model, and actress. Her songs include “Your Love,” “Check It Out,” “Right Thru Me,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Super Bass,” “Fly,” “Starships,” “Beez in the Trap,” “Pound the Alarm,” “Va Va Voom,” “Pills n Potions,” “Bang Bang,” “Anaconda,” “Only,” “Truffle Butter,” “The Night Is Still Young,” “No Frauds,” “MotorSport,” “Barbie Tingz,” “Chun-Li,” “Bed,” “Barbie Dreams,” “Megatron,” “Tusa,” “Trollz,” “Do We Have a Problem?,” “Bussin,” “Blick Blick,” “Super Freaky Girl,” “Princess Diana,” “Barbie World,” and, in a featured role, “Monster,” “Where Them Girls At,” “Dance (A$$),” “Beauty and a Beat,” “All Eyes on You,” “Do You Mind,” “Side to Side,” “Idol,” “Hot Girl Summer,” “Say So,” and “Whole Lotta Money.” She has appeared in the films The Other Woman, Barbershop: The Next Cut, and, in voice role, Ice Age: Continental Drift and The Angry Birds Movie 2; and been a judge on American Idol. She has also recorded dance-pop, and utilizes an animated flow in her singing. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and is known as the “Queen of Rap.”
Nicki was born Onika Tanya Maraj on Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, the daughter of Carol (Daniel) and Robert Maraj, a financial executive. Her parents were both gospel singers. Her paternal grandfather, whose surname was Maraj, was of Indian-Trinidadian, from India, descent; her father was of Dougla background, a Caribbean term for a mix of Indian and African. It appears that the rest of her family is of African-Trinidadian ancestry. She has evidently also stated that her great-grandfather is Japanese. It is not clear if this is accurate.
Nicki was raised on Saint James initially, though her mother immigrated to New York City, U.S., and later brought Nicki and her brother over when Nicki was five, settling in Queens.
Nicki is married to Kenneth Petty, with whom she has a son.
Source: http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com
Minaj in 2011, photo by PR Photos
lmao she’s dougla !
i hate all the people who think she’s all black, she’s too pretty (:
you sound like an idiot. there is plenty of pretty black women who is pure black(keyshia cole,erykah badu,gabrielle union is a few) so go shot yourself while you can. it is white women who is ugly
there is beauty in every race so white women are not ugly and neither black women so becka made herself sound idiotic but so did you!
shot myself? maybe you should go back to grade school.
becka maybe you should go to
Becka,you say your not black,then you say your not white,then what are you?
an what is that point,to be a bitch
To Becka
you sound so stupid
cool, anything else?
It’s a sad, hopeless, distracted person who spends time on the internet putting down a group of people for no logical reason. Becka, will you ever be in a great enough position to hinder a Black person? If your anwer is no, you are wasting your time and stressing over something that won’t ever matter. Do any intelligent people that you know have racist ideologies? Becka, you will get yours…That’s all I’ll say.
cause i said she’s dougla?
Now you know everyone is coming at you because of your foul,and what seem to be a very racist animosity towards black people.I mean with comments like( better off in the 1800’s)which was still slavery days,who could think different
Becka honestly I dont know if calling nicki minja trinidadian or dougla or whatever makes her seem more exoic or more different than “black people”..but she is a black person, it’s just that Americans don’t necessarily allow Blacks in americans to acknowledge their other racial ancestries as much as people from other countries do. She’s no different than any person of African descent and I stree the word” descent” becasue black people in all the Americans are not african unless they’r eimmigrants, most black people in the americans honey are not 100% african whether you’re an african american with white/african/native background, or trinidadian with african/east indian background or dominican with african/spanish background they all are of african descent of varying mixtures. same thing. And while im sure nick minaj would enjoy your compliment, she wouldn’t enjoy-i’m sure- you race bashing her.That’s like me claiming all no black people who are attractive aren’t from their racial group but something else. WTF??
lol you guys are idiots ……..you actually come on here…… and argue about race??? lol why does it matter these people that your worry about don’t give a fuck about you lmao
Most of you people don’t know the difference between ethnicity and race. She IS BLACK, morons, she’s black (Trinidad + Africa), her ETHNICITIES ARE: Indian, African, Trinidadian. Her races are NEGROID AND CAUCASOID (Indians are CAUCASOIDS). You morons need to get a f%cking education. And plastic or not, she’s gorgeous — you are all haters.
no not all east indians are caucasoid, there are negroid and mongoloid too. my family has mongoloid roots, you only find more mongoloid when you go the the far east/south-east of south asia.
72% of Indians are indo-aryans, 25% are dravadians and 3% are listed as other probably mongoloid. But the dravadian and other little compared to the indo-aryan.
There are not two different races,we haven’t been apart long enough for that to happen.Also Caucasion is just a type of bone structure,it doesn’t mean your white,although that’s what they like to teach.The people of India do come in different colors,and facial features.Also half the population are actually black people,although they don’t like to admit it,the ones that are seen as black get treated like crap.
Shout out to all my West Indians including Nicki I love her.
ahahhaahahha She is full of dick in her loose pussy. Obvi she fucked wayne and drake many a time to be where she at. She probably still does. Nope she easy. hey Nicki Minaj I DONT WANT TO BE ON YOUR TEAM CUZ YOUR STUPID. Mang whats your IQ, like 7?
lol. nicki minaj has somewhat bisexual even lesbian leanings if you listen to all her songs and read articles. She has no time for men and prefers hanging with women- especiialy pretty women hence her whole “barbie” thing. Im sure she’d be thrilled to know becuase she’s a rapper + attractive that youve classified her as a “whore”- please find me a hypersexual song she sings, she may ooze sex appeal but she’s not loose like that unless you’ve had intimiate knowledge of her.