Yall NY cats be killin me with the revisionism of Nicki Minaj's career. Fendi, Wayne, nor Deb Antney are the reasons for her initial popularity.
It was Gucci Mane point, blank, period. She was signed to Wayne for what felt like years with no promotion and one verse on the can't stop, won't stop freestyle from a weezy mixtape where she sounded like chanel west coast, scarlett o harlem or any other random, faceless female tax write off. Didn't hear shyt from her after that.
The South made that girl hot, esp black females from the south, Gucci made that girl hot, So Icey is an Army mixtape made that girl hot, Slumber Party and Easy made her hot
Dead at deb antney makin Nicki hot when Gucci was the one that made Deb Antney hot her damn self
wayne had that girl in the bushes until gucci got her a buzz in the south, cashmoney owe gucci far as im concerned, she really took her style of outlandish lyricism and flows from gucci
aint nobody know who she was outside of nyc till she started workin with so icey ent