When Nicki Minaj started out in the music business she rapped in a quartet called The Hoodstars composed of Lou$tar (son of "Bowlegged Lou"), Safaree Samuels (Scaff Beezy) and 7even Up, and in 2004 the group recorded the entrance song for WWE Diva Victoria, 'Don't Mess With', which was featured on the compilation album 'ThemeAddict: WWE The Music, Vol.6'. After she left the group she uploaded songs on her Myspace profile, sending several of them to people in the music industry, and she was signed to a 180-day contract with Brooklyn label Dirty Money Entertainment. Her first mixtape 'Playtime Is Over' came out in July 5, 2007, followed by 'Sucka Free' in April 2008, and lastly 'Beam Me Up Scotty' appeared in April 2009. One of its tracks 'I Get Crazy' reached number 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, and that helped her to be signed to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, with her debut album 'Pink Friday' being released on Cash Money Records in 2010. Over those early years of recording and releasing mixtapes, Minaj had taped a lot of extra songs which weren't used, with 2009 and 2010 being a particularly prolific time for her, and she could easily have released one last mixtape in 2010 before 'Pink Friday' came out, so as she didn't, I've taken the best of those songs from 2009/2010 and put it together for her.
Track listing
01 Chocolate Legs (feat. Eric Benet)
02 That's What's Up
03 Fuck U Silly (feat. Cassie)
04 New York Minute (feat. French Montana)
05 Girlfriend
06 Bring It Back
07 Go Get 'Em Girl
08 Gettin' Paid
09 Saxon
10 Everywhere We Go (feat. Lil Kim)
11 Here And There (Girl You Bad)
12 Make A Baby
13 I Love My Range Rover
14 Zonin'
15 Love Me
16 We Miss You
17 Top Of The World
