In 2021, Anaconda became first music video for a solo female rap song to hit 1 billion views. Following the video's release, it broke the 24-hour streaming record on Vevo by accumulating 19.6 million views in its first day of release. The song also peaked within the top ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, top forty in Austria, France and Portugal and top fifty in Czech Republic.Ĭolin Tilley directed an accompanying video for the song, which was released on August 19, 2014. The song peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Minaj's highest charting single at the time. Released on Augby Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, and Republic Records as the second single from the album, the song was produced by Polow da Don, DJ Spydr, and Da Internz, and prominently samples ' Baby Got Back' (1992) by Sir Mix-a-Lot. That’s the only way they respect you.' Anaconda' is a song by Trinidadian rapper and singer Nicki Minaj, from her third studio album, The Pinkprint (2014). Railing against the double standard faced by women in entertainment, the outspoken Minaj once told MTV, “You have to be a beast.

On top of her own success, Minaj helped rap-and rap audiences-look past narratives of gritty realism for something fluid and playful, but no less genuine or powerful.

Minaj’s electrifying presence has also made her a secret weapon in the pop world, where she's just as likely to share credits with David Guetta and Justin Bieber as Ludacris and Future. Her work-shapeshifting, ferocious, cartoonish, and often filled with oddball voices and alter egos-is as capable of breaking hearts (“Super Bass”) as it is detaching heads (her breakout verse on Kanye West’s 2010 “Monster,” in which she arguably outshined both West and fellow guest Jay-Z). Turning to rap in her twenties, Minaj quickly became one of the brightest stars in Lil’ Wayne’s Young Money universe. Born Onika Tanya Maraj in Trinidad and Tobago in 1982 but raised mostly in Queens, Minaj attended Manhattan’s prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the inspiration for the movie Fame) before trying to make it as an actor- a past evidenced by the deep performative streak that runs through her music today. Few artists have impacted 21st century rap like Nicki Minaj.

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