Nicki Minaj Before She Was Famous

Before she became the Black Barbie, and channeled Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj was rapping on the streets of Queens, where she was raised at an early age. Check out back-in-the-day Nicki Minaj in this previously unreleased video of her freestyling on the streets of New York.

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