I’ve decided to retire & have my family. I know you guys are happy now. To my fans, keep reppin me, do it til da death of me, in the box- cuz ain’t nobody checkin me. Love you for LIFE ♥️
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) September 5, 2019
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Rapper Nicki Minaj says she has quit the music business to have a family
Flamboyant 36-year-old Trinidad-born rapper, known for outlandish outfits, bizarre alter egos and fast-flowing delivery, makes announcement on Twitter
Award-winning Trinidad-born rapper Nicki Minaj – the first female rapper to officially sell 100 million albums and singles – says she has retired from the music industry to have a family. Photo: AP
Rap star Nicki Minaj has announced she is leaving the music business because she wants to make family life her priority.
The 36-year-old Trinidad-born rapper, who grew up in New York and is known for her outlandish outfits, bizarre alter egos and fast flow, made the announcement in a tweet on Thursday morning.
She wrote on Twitter: “I’ve decided to retire & have my family. I know you guys are happy now.
“To my fans keep reppin me, do it til da death of me.”
It’s not clear if Minaj is done with her career or merely taking a temporary rest.
Nicki Minaj says she has ‘decided to retire & have my family’. Photo: AP
Over the course of her decade-long career, Minaj has been nominated for 10 Grammys, earned a Guinness World Record in 2017 for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries by a solo female artist and hauled in five MTV Video Music Awards.
Earlier this year Minaj was certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as the first female rapper to officially sell 100 million albums and singles.
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After signing a music deal in 2009, Minaj released her first studio album, “Pink Friday”, a year later, peaking at No 1. Her second album, “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded”, also hit No 1.
I was just doing regular-sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with. But once I started doing all that weird sh*t – I’m not mad at it because it got everyone’s attention
Several subsequent albums sold well and she also branched out into acting, including voicing a character in the animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift and appeared on television, where she was judge on American Idol.
The New York Times once called Minaj “a sparkling rapper with a gift for comic accents and unexpected turns of phrase. She’s a walking exaggeration, outsize in sound, personality and look. And she’s a rapid evolver, discarding old modes as easily as adopting new ones.”
Rapper Nicki Minaj, who has announced her retirement from the music industry, has been described as ‘a walking exaggeration, outsize in sound, personality and look’. Photo: AP
Yet if Minaj is indeed hanging up her wigs and costumes, she will be remembered for her strange adoption of British cockney rhyming slang by way of Queens, New York.
“When I started rapping, people were trying to make me like the typical New York rapper, but I’m not that,” she told Billboard.
[Nicki Minaj is] a sparkling rapper with a gift for comic accents and unexpected turns of phrase. She’s a walking exaggeration, outsize in sound, personality and look. And she’s a rapid evolver, discarding old modes as easily as adopting new ones
“No disrespect to New York rappers, but I don’t want people to hear me and know exactly where I’m from.”
Her technique combined both rapping and singing as she incorporated her British alter ego, Roman Zolanski, and Japanese character, Harajuku Barbie, into her act.
Before she incorporated craziness in her performances, she once explained, she was just “doing me”.
She said: “I was just doing regular-sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with. But once I started doing all that weird sh*t – I’m not mad at it because it got everyone’s attention.”