WTF! NICKI MINAJ SAY'S HER FATHER TRIED TO KILL HER MOTHER BY LIGHTING THE HOUSE ON FIRE!

Hard-knock life. Nicki Minaj is revealing the details of her less-than-enchanted childhood. "[My dad] drank a lot and did drugs, and he would get violent. When he set fire to the house, he was attempting to kill my mother," the rapper du jour admits. But her upbringing only made Minaj more determined. "I thought, ‘If I'm successful, I can change [my mother's] life.'"