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Nicki Minaj
Trinidadian rapper (born 1982)
Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj (NIK-ee min-AHZH), is a Trinidadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. Regarded as the "Queen of Rap" and one of the most influential rappers of all time, she is noted for her dynamic rap flow, witty lyrics, musical versatility, and alter egos, and is credited as a driving force in the mainstream resurgence of female rap in the early 2010s. Minaj began rapping professionally in the early 2000s and gained recognition with her three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009.
Her debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), topped the US Billboard 200 and achieved the largest female rap album sales week of the 21st century, spawning the top-five single "Super Bass". Minaj explored dance-pop on her second US number-one album, Pink Friday: långnovell Reloaded (2012), which produced another top-five single, "Starships". She returned to her hip hop roots with her third
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I was eleven years old when I saw the video footage of four Los Angeles police officers kicking and pummeling Rodney King. It was March of 1991. In my parents’ living room in our home in Mansfield, Ohio, I watched as television news seemed to have the violent video on endless loop. When the officers were acquitted in April of the following year, I remember my parents expressing outrage at the verdict. I watched news coverage of the uprising that followed, transfixed. In the absence of high-profile civil rights marches, the 1992 rebellion in Los Angeles became my model of how to protest racism and police violence.
Shortly after that, I heard for the first time the voice of O’Shea Jackson Sr., better known as Ice Cube, formerly of N.W.A. I somehow found my way to Ice Cube’s 1992 album The Predator, buying it on cassette tape from the FYE record store at our local mall. Either my mother didn’t notice the parental advisory sticker, or she didn’t think there was any reason for concern
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Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
"Angelou" redirects here. For the English folk rock band, see Angelou (band). For the crater on Mercury, see Angelou (crater).
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| Born | Marguerite Annie Johnson (1928-04-04)April 4, 1928 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | May 28, 2014(2014-05-28) (aged 86) Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. |
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| Period | 1951–2014 |
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| Spouses | Tosh Angelos (m. 1951; div. 1954)Paul du Feu (m. 1974; div. 1983) |
| Children | 1 |
| www.mayaangelou.com | |
Maya Angelou (AN-jə-loh;[1][2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published sju autobiographies, three books of essays, se