Road to the BET Awards 2015: Nicki Minaj
Take a trip down memory lane with Nicki Minaj!
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Road to the BET Awards 2015: Nicki Minaj - When it comes to females in hip hop, there's no question that Nicki Minaj is at the top of your mind. With Onika being well on her way to grace the BET Awards stage with some of her new hits, let's see how she made it here! (Photo: Cash Money Records)
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Anaconda - August 2014 - Nicki Minaj hypnotizes fans with her scandalous and twerk-inspired video for "Anaconda," a sample of Sir Mix-A-Lot's song "Baby Got Back". She even gets Drake involved, with his own personal lap dance toward the end. (Photo: Cash Money Records, Inc.)
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Bed of Lies - October 2014 - Safaree Samuels and Nicki Minaj had been dating for 14 long years, and no one had much of an inkling that very lowkey couple would break things off so publicly. From tweets to songs to radio interviews about one another, the couple wasn't very hush-hush about cutting off ties. (Photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
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The AMAs - November 2014 - Skylar Gray joined YMCMB's head mistress for a truly emotional performance of "Bed of Lies" that may have hit home for Nicki with all the drama going on behind the scenes with in her relationship with ex-boyfriend Safaree. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz/AMA2014/FilmMagic)
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The Pinkprint - December 2014 - Following-up her 2012 Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, Nicki dropped the ultimate bomb when she released The Pinkprint. The album pulled a no. 3 spot on the Billboard chart, gold-certification, and 509,000 album sales all in a short period of time. (Photo: Cash Money Records)
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#Omeeka - February 2015 - Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill took the Instagram-world by storm with all the photos of the cute couple doing just about everything together. Whether out at the club or straddling one another outside of the airport, their constant display of affection is just too great for words. (Photo: Elsa/Getty Images)
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Cosmo Girl! - May 2015 - Nicki Minaj is really covering all the bases. This year she landed the cover for Cosmopolitan's July 2015 issue! In her spread, she opened up about sex, love and money, and it was truly enlightening to say the least. (Photo: Matthias Vriens-McGrath for Cosmopolitan Magazine)
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The Night Is Still Young - May 2015 - Nicki Minaj hit the 2015 Billboard Music Awards with a fire performance of "The Night Is Still Young" then switched it up with her pop-duet with David Guetta "Hey Mama." Her choreography was on point and her vocals were also A1. (Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Corbis)
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Only - December 2014 - Drake and Chris Breezy puts aside their beef to join Nicki Minaj and Weezy F Baby on "Only." The record peaked at no. 12 on the charts and lasted on the charts 7-weeks. These heavy-hitters sure do know how to come together and make some fire music! (Photo: Cash Money Records)
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Feelin' Myself - May 2015 - Hands down, the best collab video of the year! Bey and Nicki made us believe that they have been besties forever with all the cooky and cute moments they shared. Twerking, spilling champagne in the jacuzzi and chomping down on burgers arm in arm, it was great! (Photo: Tidal)
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