[VIDEO] @NICKIMINAJ RECEIVES ‘RISING STAR’ AWARD FROM BILLBOARD

Its been a great year for Nicki Minaj as she has seen her popularity soar to great heights and she has smashed many female rap records within the last two years and has gone on to become a global star. Love Nicki or Hate her and we all have our own opinions including myself but you have to give credit where credit is due and right now all hate should be put aside as this award billboard presents her with after the jump has been earned. Peep after the jump for more!

“Her genre-shifting, chart-topping album debut, “Pink Friday” — released Nov. 19, 2010, and bowing at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 — had racked up sales of 1.6 million copies (according to Nielsen SoundScan), single-handedly reviving the dormant “female rapper” format from a decade-long commercial drought.“