Birth name Onika Tanya Maraj
Born December 8, 1982 (age 29)[1]
Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago
Origin South Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA
Genres Hip hop, R&B, pop
Occupations Rapper, singer-songwriter
Years active 2002 – present
Labels Cash Money Records, Young Money Entertainment, Universal Republic Records, Universal Motown
Associated acts Young Money
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known by her stage name Nicki Minaj (play /mɪˈnɑːʒ/), is a Trinidadian-born American musician. She was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to the New York borough of Queens when she was five.
After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009 and being signed to Young Money Entertainment in August 2009, Minaj released her debut album, Pink Friday, in November 2010. It quickly became a commercial success, peaking at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release. She became the first female solo artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her second single, "Your Love", reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, making Minaj the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002. She also became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List. Minaj was named the 2011 Rising Star by Billboard. Her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded will be released on April 3, 2012.
1. HERE I AM
Why is that you could only see the worst in me?
I swear sometimes I feel like it nurtures me
But to keep it all real is kinda hurtin' me
I could say I'm done with it, but it lurks in me
So I'm a just tell myself that it works for me
Take a real long drive in the Mer-ce-des
And I might pop a couple of them per-ca-ces
Yeah that'll make me transform to Hercules
[Chorus]
Here I am, Here I am, so take me, as I am
Here I am, Here I am, so take me, as I am
Here I am, Here I am, so take me, as I am
I swear to God, man, everything in life is old
And the only thing that change is the price of gold
Even in the afterlife I'm a fight your soul
Cause the second time around I'll be twice as bold
So do you take me to be who I am?
To have and to hold till death do us part
Cause if not it's just best we both part
Cause how am I supposed to finish what you start?
You got me thinkin' twice to just breathe
Then you say I won't survive if I leave
But I got a couple of tricks up my sleeve
I no longer need your attention, at ease
It's a joke, it's a game,
Why am I still keeping score?
I'm in pain, I'm ashamed
I'm a woman, hear me roar
It's a joke, it's a game,
Why am I still keeping score?
I'm in pain, I'm ashamed
I'm a woman, hear me roar
Now it's a joke, it's a game,
Why am i still keeping score?
I'm in pain, I'm ashamed
I'm a woman, hear me roar
It's a joke, it's a game,
Why am i still keeping score?
I'm in pain, I'm ashamed
I'm a woman, hear me roar
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2.. YOUR LOVE
[Songwriters: Freeman, David Edward Dan; Hughes, Joseph; Maraj, Onika Tanya;]
Shawty, I'ma only tell you this once, you the illest
And for your lovin' I'ma Die Hard like Bruce Willis
You got spark, you, you got spunk
You, you got something all the girls want
You're like a candy store and I'm a toddler
You got me wantin' more and ma-ma-more of
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Yo, he the type to pop tags and be cockin' the brim
Might breeze through The Ave, might stop at the gym
And he keep a do rag, keep his wave on swim
Wa-waves on swim so they hate on him
Anyway I think I met him sometime before
In a different life or where I record
I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve
But my vision ends with the apple on the tree
S on my chest 'cause I'm ready to save him
'Cause I'm the one like I'm Tracy McGrady
And I think I love him like Eminem is calling Shady
When he call me mama, lil' mama, I call him baby
Shawty, I'ma only tell you this once, you the illest
And for your lovin' I'ma Die Hard like Bruce Willis
You got spark, you, you got spunk
You, you got something all the girls want
You're like a candy store and I'm a toddler
You got me wantin' more and ma-ma-more of
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
He the type to keep a couple hundred grand in a rubber band
Just left Money Gram in the Lemon Lam
Hot damn, make me scream like summer jam
I mean that nigga must be from the motherland
Anyway, I think I met him in the sky
When I was a geisha, he was a samurai
Somehow I understood him when he spoke Thai
Never spoke lies and he never broke fly
S on my chest, let me get my cape on
With a certificate that I change my name on
N-n-n-name on
With a certificate that I change my name on
Shawty, I'ma only tell you this once, you the illest
And for your lovin' I'ma Die Hard like Bruce Willis
You got spark, you, you got spunk
You, you got something all the girls want
You're like a candy store and I'm a toddlor
You got me wantin' more and ma-ma-more of
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Your love, your love, your love, your love
Find me in the dark
I'll be in the stars
Find me in your heart
I'm in need of your love
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3. SWEETEST GIRL
When a good girl gone, she gone forever
See yOu cant make it rain without the stormy weather
And its funny when it rains, when it rains it pours
Would of never happened if I stayed indoors
Would of never happened if I never traded in my textbooks
Cuz now Im hot but all the credits say its just looks
They say Im too sexy and say Im sellin out
Cuz when I come out niggas get they umbrellas out
I take the L cuz I dont want to see my brother lose
Been through it all but I could never fill my mothers shoes
And nahh I dont want no hand out, I just want my ad lips to get paned out
And I just wanna tell the girls that could feel me, That I just play the cards the nigga dealed me
See everything I been through could of killed me
That why I really aint nothin, yu could tell me
Yu see I live for the bill, I die for the bill
And I still make sure I read the bi to the bill
And every time I write Im persist in my skill
Its more outta life then just ice in ya grill
Fuck me lay me, Fuck yu pay me, This is what yu made me
Said yu want to drape me, turned around and raped me, Now yu aint mistake me
Where my girls at, where my girls at.
If they frontin then tell them where my money at. (Repeat)
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4. STAR SHIPS
(RedOne)
Let's go to the beach, each
Let's go get a wave
They say, what they gonna say?
Have a drink, clink, found the bud light
Bad bitches like me, is hard to come by
The patron own, let's go get it on
The zone own, yes, I'm in the zone
Is it two, three? Leave a good tip
I'ma blow off my money and don't give two shits
I'm on the floor, floor
I love to dance
So give me more, more, 'till I can't stand
Get on the floor, floor
Like it's your last chance
If you want more, more
Then here I am
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Can't stop, 'cause we're so high
Let's do this one more time
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Let's do this one last time
Hands up..
(We're higher than a motherfucker) (x3)
Jump in my hoopty hoopty hoop, I own that
And I ain't paying my rent this month, I owe that
But fuck who you want, and fuck who you like
Dance our life, there's no end in sight
Twinkle, twinkle little star..
Now everybody let me hear you say ray-ray-ray
Now spend all your money 'cause today's payday
And if you're a G, you a G-G-G
My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki
Get on the floor, floor
Like it's your last chance
If you want more, more
Then here I am
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Can't stop, 'cause we're so high
Let's do this one more time
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Let's do this one last time
Can't stop..
(We're higher than a motherfucker) (x3)
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Can't stop, 'cause we're so high
Let's do this one more time
Starships were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Let's do this one last time
Can't stop..
(We're higher than a motherfucker) (x3)
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5. TOP OF THE WORLD.
I remember standing in the mirror
Searching for a winner but I didn’t see it in her
Now I’ve gone from a zero to a super-hero-oh-oh
Woah, woah
Chasing dreams got me all over the World
Now I’m sitting on top of the World
We winning, we winning
Cause we sitting on top of the World
[Verse 1]
This is for the little girls that say Nicki you pretty
When you come to the city you dont act high for Diddy?
You be up on the block, posted up in the drop
And everybody get up in whether you like it or not
But how them girls blow up but don’t come to the hood
How they turn they nose up like they don’t come from the hood
Most of them be in sight til it’s time to pitch
Thats when everything they write be a contradiction
I tell em I do it for the love
I do it for the hugs
I do it for the buzz
I do it for the thugs
I do it for the rich
I do it for the poor
I do it for the kids that can’t do no more
I remember standing in the mirror
Searching for a winner but I didn’t see it in her
Now I’ve gone from a zero to a super-hero-oh-oh
Woah, woah
Chasing dreams got me all over the World
Now I’m sitting on top of the World
We winning, we winning
Cause we sitting on top of the World
[Verse 2]
This is for my little homies that be asking for kisses
When I’m granting they wishes they be passing they digits
They be up on the block, getting screwed by the cops
Cuttin’ school gettin knocked whether they like it or not
They’ll break in your door, might break in your jaw
They’ll bring back a lye if you bring them an O
But what you really ain’t know they airborne for stardom
With the ball in the gardens, stand tall, no dodgin’
No matter the squadron, lieutenant or sargeant
Air Force, the army, air force and army fatigues is on em
No heats is on ‘em
Cause grandmamma prayed that he’d leave the corner.
[Verse 3]
I remember when I lost everything in a fire
Now I got fire, 23′s almost higher
Shout outs to my brothers Jelani and Makiah
Thanks to the Messiah, my money getting higher
One time for my niggas that be huggin’ the block
2 Times for my niggas that be ducking the cops
3 Times for my girls that pushing they own rides
Stooshing they own rides from bitches they dont like
Sometimes you get mad, wanna blaze the gun
I see you without a man, might erase ya son
Well look, when you blow up, everybody go shudder
This goes out to everybody on the come up
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Cause we sitting on top of the world
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Cause we sitting on top of the world
We winning, winning
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6. MARILYN MUNROE
I can be selfish
You're so impatient
Sometimes I feel like Marilyn Monroe
I'm insecure yea I make mistake
Sometimes I feel like I'm at the end of a road
I can get low I can get low
Don't know which way is up
Yea I can get high, I can get high
Like I could never come down
Call me cursed
Or just call me blessed
If you can't handle my worst
You ain't getting my best
Is this how Marilyn Monroe feels? feels feels feels
Must be how Marilyn Monroe felt? felt felt felt
Its like all the good things
They fall apart like…
like Marilyn monroe
Truth is we mess up
Till we get it right
I dont want to end up losing my soul
I can get low, I can get low
Don't know which way is up
Yea I can get high, I can get high
Like I could never come down
Call me cursed
Or just call me blessed
If you can't handle my worst
You ain't getting my best
Is this how Marilyn Monroe feels? feels feels feels
Must be how Marilyn Monroe felt felt felt felt
Take me or leave me
I'll never be perfect
believe me I'm worth it
So take me or leave
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7. RIGHT THROUGH ME
You see right through me
How do you do that shit? x3
How do you x5
You let me win
You let me ride
You let me rock
You let me slide
And when they looking
You let me hide
Defend my honor
Protect my pride
The good advice
I always hated
But looking back
It made me greater
You always told me
Forget the haters
Just get my money
Just get my weight up
Know when I'm lying
Know when I'm crying
It's like you got it
Down to a science
Why am I trying
No you ain't buying
I tried to fight it
Back with defiance
You make me laugh
You make me hoarse
From yelling at you
And getting at you
Picking up dishes
Throwing them at you
Why are you speaking
When no one asked you
You see right through me
How do you do that shit? x3
How do you x5
You see right through me
How do you do that shit? x3
How do you x5
What are we doing
Could you see through me
Cuz you say Nicki
And I say who me
And you say no you
And I say screw you
Then you start dressin
And you start leavin
And I start crying
And I start screamin
The heavy breathin
Well, what's the reason
Always get the reaction you wanted
I'm actually fronting
I'm asking you something
Yo, answer this question
Class is in session
Tired of letting
Passive aggression
Control my mind
Capture my soul
Okay you're right
Just let it go
Okay you got it
It's in the can
Before I played it
You knew my hand
You could turn a free
Throw to a goal
Nigga got the peep
Hole to my soul
You see right through me
How do you do that shit? x3
How do you x5
You see right through me
How do you do that shit? x3
How do you x5
Stop!
Ohhh
Stop!
Ohhh
Would you just stop looking through me cause I can't take it
No I can't take it
You see right through me
How do you do that shit? x3
How do you x5
You see right through me
-You see right through me baby
You see right through me
You see right through me
....baby
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