Her father was a drug and alcohol addict, and had a brutal temper. Her parents didn't get along at all, and her father once even tried to kill her mother by setting their house on fire. Her form of escape was creating different characters, so she could pretend to come from a great family, and be happy. It allowed her to escape from an actually horrifying reality. With her parents’ relationship becoming increasingly troubled, Nicki and her siblings moved to Queens, NY and began living with their grandmother. At school, Nicki was bullied a lot and had body-image and self confidence issues. She had a foreign accent, and the girls in school would hurt her physically and emotionally. The emotional scars run so deep that mean comments still affect Nicki to this day. In fact, she wrote a whole album, Pink Friday, as a response to her doubters and haters. She had a difficult time writing the songs, but was determined to prove that she could rap. Contrary to a common opinion that Nicki was a troubled kid, Nicki was in fact a very disciplined and responsible child. She said that she always sought out discipline in her life; probably due to the fact her upbringing lacked
Her father was a drug and alcohol addict, and had a brutal temper. Her parents didn't get along at all, and her father once even tried to kill her mother by setting their house on fire. Her form of escape was creating different characters, so she could pretend to come from a great family, and be happy. It allowed her to escape from an actually horrifying reality. With her parents’ relationship becoming increasingly troubled, Nicki and her siblings moved to Queens, NY and began living with their grandmother. At school, Nicki was bullied a lot and had body-image and self confidence issues. She had a foreign accent, and the girls in school would hurt her physically and emotionally. The emotional scars run so deep that mean comments still affect Nicki to this day. In fact, she wrote a whole album, Pink Friday, as a response to her doubters and haters. She had a difficult time writing the songs, but was determined to prove that she could rap. Contrary to a common opinion that Nicki was a troubled kid, Nicki was in fact a very disciplined and responsible child. She said that she always sought out discipline in her life; probably due to the fact her upbringing lacked