Who doesn’t love Nicki Minaj?! With the lyrical dexterity matching some of the best in the business combined with a raw sexiness not seen in Hip Hop since Lil Kim, Nicki is well on her way to becoming one of the all-time greats. Listen to and download her first Young Money mixtape, “Beam Me Up Scotty“ here for free.
Mixtape Details
Artist: Nicki Minaj
Title: Beam Me Up Scotty
Release Date: April 18, 2009
Released By: Young Money Entertainment and Dirty Money Entertainment
Tracklist
1. Intro
2. I Get Crazy ft. Lil Wayne
3. Itty Bitty Piggy
4. Kill Da DJ
5. Mind On My Money ft. Brinx & Busta Rhymes
6. Nicki Minaj Speaks
7. Slumber Party ft. Gucci Mane
8. Shopaholic ft. Gucci Mane & Bobby Valentino
9. Go Hard ft. Lil Wayne
10. Nicki Minaj Speaks
11. Best I Ever Had ft. Drake
12. Handstand ft. Shannell
13. Keys Under Palm Trees
14. Get Silly
15. Easy ft. Gucci Mane & Rocko
16. Five-O ft. Jae Millz & Gudda Gudda
17. Nicki Minaj Speaks
18. Envy
19. Can Anybody Hear Me
20. Still I Rise
21. I Feel Free ft. Ron Browz, Red Cafe, Ricki Blaze
22. Outro
23. Beam Me Up Scotty
More about “Beam Me Up, Scotty” Mixtape by Nicki Minaj from WikiPedia.org:
Beam Me Up Scotty is the third mixtape by American recording artist Nicki Minaj. It was released on April 18, 2009 by Young Money Entertainment and Dirty Money Entertainment. The mixtape includes guest appearances by Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Busta Rhymes,Bobby Valentino, and other Young Money artists like Drake and Jae Millz. Shortly after its release, Minaj—along with other Cash Money/Young Money artists—appeared on MTV.com’s Mixtape Daily to discuss the recording.
Beam Me Up Scotty was recorded after Lil’ Wayne noticed Nicki Minaj’s appearance on Queens-based underground rap label Dirty Money Records’ “On the Come Up” DVD series (Dirty Money Records is not to be confused with Diddy-Dirty Money). Wayne is credited with mentoring Minaj as she recorded Beam Me Up Scotty, two years after her appearance on “Don’t Stop, Won’t Stop”, a track from Wayne’s acclaimed 2007 mixtape Da Drought 3 (the track sampled “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” by Young Gunz). The tape is credited with helping to create Nicki Minaj’s fan base. Despite the impressive list of collaborators on the tape, Minaj “remains in the foreground” of the tape. Minaj herself says of her time on tour with Lil’ Wayne: “It made me hungry. That’s what inspired me and the music for the Beam Me Up Scotty tape — the I Am Music Tour.”
Minaj credits Beam Me Up Scotty with re-focusing her on her music at a time when much of her career efforts were associated with her image:
“I was OK, but I wasn’t focusing on the music. I was doing pictures and stuff like that, so people knew me more for pictures than my music. But with the Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape, they have to take me seriously as an artist. So, I would say maybe a year ago, I started sharpening my skills. Recently, I’ve been singing more. Now it’s official — it’s going down like ‘Town Julie Brown.”
—Nicki Minaj
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