Rap-Up.com || Mariah Carey Saw Big Things for Nicki Minaj

Pop fans were introduced to Nicki Minaj when she appeared on the remix to Mariah Carey’s “Up Out My Face.” Nicki shares the encouraging words the pop diva told her that gave her a boost of confidence.

The head Barb relived the experience of shooting Mimi’s video with Entertainment Weekly. “I was shaking,” she recalls after meeting the Grammy-winning songbird. “After we shot the video, she gave me a little pep talk that was really sweet and sentimental. She was like, ‘You’re going to make it. You’re going to be really big!’”

Mariah was right. Since then, she’s appeared on tracks for Christina Aguilera, Usher, M.I.A., and many more. Her debut album Pink Friday drops tomorrow, but Nicki is not worried about the sales.

“It doesn’t matter if I sell 80,000 or 800,000 in the first week,” she says. “Eventually the album will be multi-platinum, because it’s a body of amazing work. I don’t have any fear about dropping the same day as Kanye. People like good music and when they hear good music, they’re going to buy it.”

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22 Comments

TeamKeri 4 EVER
November 21st, 2010 at 8:06 am
Yes yes yes I knew nicki would be big too!!

I mean I’n our radio station I’n the UAE they were playing Keri’s Get Yo Money up that features Trina. But then next thing you know they got the Nicki version & I was like YAAAAAAY!!

Lol anyways, Nicki is the best rapper she really is, and I love her so much. Am so buying the album when it drops here ;)

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YEAH
November 21st, 2010 at 8:12 am
she will be

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Chri$
November 21st, 2010 at 8:59 am
Why isn’t it any good friday-song this week???????????????????????

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Sol-power
November 21st, 2010 at 9:12 am
@Chri$
I think because MDTF is dropping this week.
Yeezy said that Good Friday was just till the album came out.

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K.K.
November 21st, 2010 at 9:15 am
I know Nicki from ‘Up Out My Face’. and from that, I always follow her work. They’re all masterpiece!
LOVE YA, NICKI! :D

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The Beast
November 21st, 2010 at 9:50 am
no he said til christmas

the first time i heard of nicki minaj was last thanksgiving day when someone played me “sweet dreams remix” off of no ceilings with lil wayne and beyonce. such a sick song. thats when i saw she was going to go places

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Stan
November 21st, 2010 at 10:18 am
Ms Nicki, Drake had more hits on radio as a featuring act as well as a solo act,yet still couldn’t earn a multi platinum album. What makes this crazy broad think she can? lmao

Nicki has the same type of fans chris brown and Trey have. Mostly Black women 15-30 years old, and gay&lesbian fans. She haven’t really earned an other fans lol. She will sell the same as chris brown and trey’s last albums around 350k at the most. It won’t go gold. QUote me on dat When the sales come out next week lol

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Chri$
November 21st, 2010 at 10:33 am
Oh:( I love the G.O.O.D. Friday songs. But I love the new Album even better:)

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brandon
November 21st, 2010 at 10:53 am
@Sol-power naw his good friday songs was till christmas

but i knew nicki would be big too

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Jordan
November 21st, 2010 at 11:00 am
I knew Nicki would be huge also. She’s unique and just… awesome. I love Nicki.

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Jarvis
November 21st, 2010 at 11:47 am
@ stan

You have a point

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LongLiveMinaj
November 21st, 2010 at 11:51 am
@Stan Wrong Nickis fans base is more than black women. She is an multiethnic act blacks,whites,muslims,asian,hispanic are crazy over Nicki & she’s blossming into an International act it seems that people in Europe/Africa/and parts of South America are feeling Ms Minaj so even if her cd dosnt go multiplat. She still is going to have an awsome career

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Rihanna Baby
November 21st, 2010 at 11:54 am
overrated bitch

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Boy Wonder
November 21st, 2010 at 12:34 pm
@Rihanna Baby why the need for hate and you have Rihanna in the title? I like Rihanna but people in a glass house can’t throw stones….

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lovethesetits
November 21st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Pink Whiteday is soulless. Does Nicki think this is the route to success, to disregard her core audience? Dear Wayne, why did you have to go away and leave Dear Old Nicki without guidance?

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JAYLA
November 21st, 2010 at 3:01 pm
@STAN

YOU SOUND LIKE A DUMB FAG YOURSELF. NICKI HAS FANS OF ALL TYPES, AND CHRIS BROWN? LMAO MOST GAY PPL Cant stand chris brown for Some reason, maybe because ALL OF RIHANNAS FANBASE IS LIKE 95% GAY…

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Riyah.Finessence » Mariah Saw Big Things For Nicki Minaj
November 21st, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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Rihanna d Queen of POP
November 21st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
love nicki minaj so getting her album..she a bad chic!! haters fall back n keep gaging

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coco
November 22nd, 2010 at 9:34 am
LOL wow, pink Whiteday? I will have to hear a few more songs. Im not feeling what I’ve heard so far. She was good on Up Out My Face tho.

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Mariah Floppy
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:35 am
Poor thing she can’t see big things for herself except for her fat figure!

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Mariah Floppy
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:39 am
According to Hits Daily Double, Merry Christmas II You will drop 10 places to No 14 in its second week. This week, only 30,337 copies were sold. Last week, the album sold 55,000 copies. In 1994, Merry Christmas debuted at No. 30 with 10,000 copies less, but that album eventually sold 500,000 copies in its sixth week and a total of 1,859,000 copies sold in 1994.
We could fool ourselves that Christmas albums are slow starters, but this is just not true. Susan Boyle’s new Christmas album, The Gift, sold 320,000 copies in a single week. That’s 4 times the amount Mariah sold in two weeks. Will Mariah have another flop, after poor sales of E=MC2 and Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel?
The official album sales figures are determined by Nielsen SoundScan and will be released later this week.

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The Truth
November 23rd, 2010 at 5:12 pm
It’s so sad when bitter pathetic souls like “love these…” spend they’re days coming on blogs to talk trash about others, when they could be spending they’re days doing something useful and not spreading hate. Like Bun B would say, “go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch!”

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