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Minaj was the first female artist included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List, with The New York Times saying that some consider her "the most influential female rapper of all time". In 2013, she was a main judge on the twelfth season of American Idol. Minaj was a voice actress in the animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and made her acting debut in the 2014 film The Other Woman.
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The album's second single, "Anaconda", peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and is her highest-charting single in the U.S. Minaj's third album, The Pinkprint, is scheduled for release on November 24, 2014. The album was reissued as an expanded version, subtitled The Re-Up. Her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), also topped the chart and its lead single, "Starships", peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. During that time, Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the U.S. Billboard 200 and spawned the top-ten single "Super Bass". Minaj's debut album, Pink Friday (2010), peaked at number one on the U.S. She signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009. Born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Minaj received public notice after releasing three mixtapes between 2007–2009. Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is an American rapper, singer, song-writer and actress.