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What Race Is Nicki Minaj?

Nicki Minaj (born Onika Tanya Maraj) Onika Maraj grew up in Queens, New York.

She is of mixed Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian descent.

According to Minaj, she grew-up in a home with an abusive father who drank alcohol, did drugs, and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire.[5] She graduated from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan where she studied singing and acting