Everything you need to know about Nicki Minaj’s parents

Before they became famous in the music industry, the Your love rapper went through a tough time during her childhood. When Nicki was three, Robert and Carol emigrated from Trinidad to the US, leaving her in the care of her grandmother. Her parents returned two years later to take her and her siblings to their new home in South Jamaica, Queens, where the rapper grew up.

“Every time my parents argued, my mother made us move and I had to go to a new school, which meant I had to face the task of making new friends,” she said. Teen fashion. “I was afraid of it. I had butterflies in my stomach every time: Will people like me or hate me? Will they talk about me?”

The Starships hitmaker witnessed domestic violence in their parental home as a little girl.

In her documentary QueenNicki discussed instances where she would instinctively defend her mother against her father.

“Maybe some people would describe me as abrasive or b—- or whatever, because from that age on I swore that no man would ever abuse me, scream my name or treat me like that,” she said, getting emotional. “Then suddenly that was my life.”