But with the Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape, they have to take me seriously as an artist. I was doing pictures and stuff like that, so people knew me more for pictures than my music. 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. That's what inspired me and the music for the Beam Me Up Scotty tape - the.' Minaj says of her time on tour with Lil Wayne: 'It made me hungry. He 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 that sampled '.
Contents.Background Beam Me Up Scotty was recorded after Lil Wayne noticed Minaj's appearance on Queens-based underground rap label Dirty Money Records on 'The Come Up' DVD series. One of its tracks, ', respectively charted at numbers 20 and 37 on the U.S. Beam Me Up Scotty received favorable reviews from, and is also largely credited with establishing Minaj's fan base.
Its production was overseen by DJ Holiday and The Trapaholics.
It features guest verses from rappers, Brinx, Lil Chuckee. ReleasedApril 18, 2009 ( )Length75: 18TrapaholicsDJ Holiday and The Trapaholicschronology(2008)Beam Me Up Scotty(2009)(2010)Beam Me Up Scotty is the third by Trinidadian-born American rapper it was released on Apby Trapaholics Records.
