Nicki Minaj (born Onika Maraj) is a female rapper from Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY.
Nicki Minaj grew up in New York, her parents of Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Asian origin[2] She graduated from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan where she studied singing and acting.[3] She started off singing background vocals and hooks for local rappers. In order to stand… Continue
The City Health Department is shaking up the food industry Monday by giving it tough targets to reduce salt in products by 25% - on everything from bread to bacon.
The plan is voluntary but has national implications because the manufacturers would change their products for all Americans, not just New Yorkers.
"I can't guarantee it will work, but I'm very excited about it," Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said.
Something stinks in the Gilbert Arenas gun investigation -- and it's coming from the locker room laundry basket. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ the other Washington Wizards player involved in the incident, Javaris Crittenton, is also facing the possibility of gun charges after witnesses claimed he threw a gun into a locker room laundry basket in an attempt to hide the firearm from team authorities.
MONTREAL -- Canadian police said Friday that it was wrong for one of their officers to whisk Halle Berry, her model boyfriend and baby through airport security at Montreal's Trudeau airport.
A constable at the airport decided to let the couple pass a long line after a spur-of-the-moment request on Monday by Gabriel Aubry, a Quebec model who is Berry's boyfriend and father of her 22-month-old daughter, Nahla.
Rapper Lloyd Banks and three associates were arrested in Ontario, Canada this weekend for assaulting a promoter, AllHipHop.com has confirmed.
Banks, born Christopher Charles Lloyd and the three other men were arrested for allegedly assaulting promoter Chris Hines of Chris Hines/Ultimate Entertainment.
The G-Unit rapper was allegedly booked at Club N.V. in Ontario, Canada to perform select cuts from his… Continue
Despite meager sales of Jealous Ones Still Envy 2, Fat Joe said critics' talk of his career demise is preposterous. Still, Joe feels fueled by the doubt. He has a new LP coming in a few months called The Darkside: Volume 1 "The people gotta understand: I don't give a f--- right now," Joe said. "It's nothing to be political, nothing to be friends about. My n---as that's with me is the loyal n---as. Bandwagon… Continue
To cap off celebrating his 32nd birthday in Las Vegas Friday night, the Backstreet Boys proposed to his girlfriend Rochelle Deanna Karidis while on stage at the Hard Rock Hotel's Wasted Space nightclub, People.com reports.
"He got up on stage and the DJ turned the music off," an onlooker said. "He asked her to come up on stage and he got down… Continue
Off the market for over four years, Denton, better known as “Pepa” of the hip-hop duo Salt-n-Pepa — is looking to get back in the dating game, and she’s doing it in front of the camera. Her latest reality show, “Let’s Talk About Pep," which premieres tomorrow night at 10:30 on VH1, follows her adventures dating in New York City with three of her single girlfriends: journalist Jacque Reid; Joumana… Continue
Gun-toting ex-Giant Plaxico Burress may be behind bars, but New Jersey Net Sean Williams is said to be doing his part to spread panic at the disco.
A battalion of security guards recently carried the 6-foot-10 power forward out of Chelsea's M2 UltraLounge after he allegedly annoyed female patrons, hurled an ice bucket at a busboy and threw a punch at a bouncer, sources tell us.
The 23-year-old hoops star is said to have committed his… Continue
Charles Barkley may be the least endrogenous basketball star in the world, but that didn't stop him from playing a beautiful woman for the decade's first episode of "Saturday Night Live."
The hefty former NBA player, who stands a towering 6 foot 5, sported a curly ponytail and hoop earrings to play musical guest Alicia Keys in an "SNL" promo that aired on NBC during the NFL playoff game.
It started as a simple Twitter beef, 140-character spurts of anger by two young men who grew up together.
But the tough talk exploded out of cyberspace and onto the streets of Harlem, where a college student was gunned down feet from Gov. Paterson's home.
Now tweets sent by victim Kwame Dancy, 22, and accused killer Jameg Blake, 22, could become key evidence in a murder trial, the Daily News has learned.
CEOs Carol A. Dorsey (Chopper City Records, Madd Money Entertainment) and Dawn “Lady Dolla” Harrington (Dollas N Sense) have confirmed a joint business venture focusing on artist management and label development projects.
As founder/co-CEO of Chopper City Records with rapper and nephew B.G., Carol Dorsey was instrumental in the New Orleans emcee selling 8 million records to date, and introducing the group Chopper City Boyz.
In an instance of literal overkill, a man's face was skinned and stitched onto a soccer ball as a threat to members of Mexico's Juarez drug cartel.
The unknown assailants cut up the body of Hugo Hernandez into seven pieces and left him on a street in the northern city of Los Mochis, a spokesman for Sinaloa prosecutors, Martin Robles, told the Associated Press.
Hernandez's torso was found in a plastic container in a separate location… Continue
Is it possible your self-serve soda could be flush with yucky bacteria?
You may want to consider ordering a bottled beverage rather than filling your own glass at a fast food restaurant: A study shows that drinks from soda foundation machines in restaurants and fast food establishments might actually harbor fecal bacteria, according to a study reported by ABCNews.com.
Nearly half the beverages coming out of the machines were… Continue