Test your knowledge of Nicki Minaj's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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Her singles announce themselves fast: the 'Starships' synth drop, the 'Super Bass' bounce, the 'Anaconda' bassline lifted from 'Baby Got Back'. These are the guess-the-song gimmes, before the personas start shifting.
The facts behind the hooks decide a tie: an alter ego whose name nods to a film director, a bassline older than most Barbz, a guest verse that stole Kanye's own record. The detail a close quiz saves for last.
Nicki's catalog splits into tiers of difficulty. Start with the sung singles anyone can place, then move to the voice she morphs mid-verse, the features she steals, and the rap-first deep cuts only the Barbz hold.
Start here for the easy points: the Euro-dance of 'Starships', the summery bounce of 'Super Bass', the Sir Mix-a-Lot flip of 'Anaconda' and the anthem 'Moment 4 Life'. These are the sung, radio-first Nicki Minaj songs most players place from the hook, so they open a quiz gently.
Here the quiz sharpens. Nicki switches from a high Harajuku Barbie squeak to the snarling Roman Zolanski growl to a Trinidadian patois, sometimes inside one verse. The trap is assuming a voice that harsh or that cartoonish cannot be the same artist as the 'Super Bass' hook.
Some of her most-tested verses are on other people's records: 'Monster' with Kanye West and Jay-Z, 'Bang Bang' with Jessie J and Ariana Grande, and 'Side to Side' with Ariana Grande. A thorough Nicki Minaj quiz asks you to spot her verse on a song billed to someone else.
The top tier lives in her rap-first cuts: 'Chun-Li', 'Roman's Revenge' with Eminem, 'Barbie Dreams' and early mixtape favorites where the melodic hook disappears. Place these from a short clip and you are scoring like a Barb.
Her voice changes so often that the same song can fool you twice. Play a rap quiz on Songtrivia and try to name the Roman growl, the Barbie squeak and the sung hooks from a short clip.
Her real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago on December 8, 1982, and grew up in the Queens borough of New York.
Expect the singles everyone knows, 'Super Bass', 'Starships' and 'Anaconda', her scene-stealing features on 'Monster' and 'Bang Bang', and rap-first deep cuts like 'Chun-Li' and 'Roman's Revenge'.
The sung singles are easy points, but Nicki switches personas mid-verse, so the trap is a growled or squeaked passage that hides which song, and which Nicki, you are hearing.
That is the fun part. Some of her best verses are guest spots, 'Monster' with Kanye West and 'Bang Bang' with Jessie J and Ariana Grande, so a good quiz asks you to catch her on a song billed to someone else.
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