Sucka Free
Mixtape by Nicki Minaj
Released	April 12, 2008
Recorded	2007–2008
Genre	Hip hop
Length	56:25
Label	Young Money Dirty Money
Producer	Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj chronology
Playtime Is Over (2007) Sucka Free (2008) Beam Me Up Scotty (2009)

Sucka Free is the secondmixtape by New York–based rapperNicki Minaj. It was released on April 12, 2008, by Dirty Money Records.Sucka Free features guest appearances from fellow rappersLil Wayne,Gucci Mane,Jadakiss,Lil' Kim and Ransom. Production derives fromDaven "Prestige" Vanderpool,Diddy,James Todd Smith, among others.

Just after Minaj's previous mixtape,Playtime Is Over, was released in 2007, Minaj releasedSucka Free with label mate Lil Wayne after he discovered her on the Queens-made DVD series calledThe Come Up.^[1]

In a promotional photo for the mixtape, Minaj's pose paid homage to a photoshoot from rapperLil' Kim's debut album,Hard Core, causing Kim to express anger onTwitter.^[2] Despite Minaj calling Kim an "influence" early in her career, tensions rose between the two with Kim calling Minaj "catty" and accused her of copying her image saying, "If you are going to steal my swag, you gonna have to pay. Something gotta give. You help me, I help you. That's how it goes to me."^[3] Minaj later commented on the situation in an interview with The Angie Martinez Show, saying "She picked a fight withFoxy, then she picked a fight withEve, then she picked a fight withRemy, then it was Mrs. Wallace, then it was Nicki Minaj. Every time you in the news, it's 'cause you gettin' at somebody. Where's your music? Put your music out, and when I see your name onBillboard, that's when I'll respond to you."^[3]

In a 2014 article,NME described the mixtape as Minaj's bang "on the door of hip-hop's boys club" and was described as "explosive".^[4] Although Minaj jumped on a "load of popular hip hop instrumentals", she successfully made every track feel like her own.^[5]

Minaj's remix ofEminem andThe Notorious B.I.G.'s "Dead Wrong" was seen as a standout track from the mixtape which called in "comparisons to NYC rap legends like Notorious" and eventually continued by Minaj in her third studio album,The Pinkprint, on songs such as "Four Door Aventador".^[5] The song was also called a "triumph and an omen" in aPaper Magazine article, but that it was hardly comparable to Minaj's fourth studio album,Queen.^[6] With high praise response from critics, Minaj won an award for Female Artist of the Year at the 2008 Underground Music Awards.^[7]

The mixtape debuted at number 95 onBillboard'sTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, making it Minaj's first mixtape to chart.^[8]

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