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NICKI MINAJ: HIP HOP’S PRINCESS


FROM WATCHING BAD BOY TO TAKING THE STAGE


By Niema Jordan 20


announce that Ms. Minaj has always had a thing for us, too. “My fi rst memory of BET was probably


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the Bad Boy era. I remember Mase and Puffy and Biggie ... being a representation of hip-hop culture to me,” says the MC who is surely a symbol of the culture to millions. She fondly recalls watching G-Depp’s Let’s Get It on the network, noting that his lyric “I was already on fi sh and spaghetti” always


t’s hard to think of a time when Nicki Minaj, in all her Barbie swag, was not a BET staple. Before the world fl ocked to all things Roman, we knew the power of pink. We’re happy to


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