Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj used the Sennheiser SKM 5200-II microphone starting in 2012. After 2016, she switched to a custom-made silver Sennheiser mic, as evidenced by a photo on Nymag.

Nicki Minaj uses the Sennheiser ME 5005 e capsule on both her pink and silver microphones, as shown in a photo from Billboard.

Visible in Nicki Minaj: My Truth at 3:05. It was also mentioned by sound engineer Trevor Muzzy in this August 2012 Sound on Sound interview about the production of "Starships".

All Nicki's vocal tracking was done at Conway Studios in LA, where she had a lockout and was working with her engineer, Ariel Chobaz. I did not want to assume that how he was recording her wasn't working, so I asked him what he had set up, and he told me that there were two vocal signal chains, one being a Telefunken ELAM 251 going into a Chandler TG2 mic pre and then through an Urei 1176 [compressor]. The other was a more traditional Neumann-Neve chain. The 251 chain sounded amazing and worked really well with the 1176, which I don't typically use for cutting vocals. It gave her voice a unique character with a cool edge that wasn't there with the other chain. We cut Nicki's vocals in a day, and I came back and we redid a few things, so you could say it was a two-day process.

In this image, you can see Nicki Minaj is using the Sennheiser digital 9000 and has been using this since 2018. She is also using the mm 445 super-cardioid capsule by Sennheiser which she loved because it rejects background noise.

Visible in Nicki Minaj: My Truth at 2:35.

Nicki Minaj is shown using the Shure SM7B microphone during a radio show, as evidenced by the image provided on Equipboard.

In the article by Marisa Mendez on HipHopDX, a picture clearly shows Nicki Minaj using the Sennheiser MM 435 Cardioid Dynamic Microphone Capsule for her handheld wireless transmitter.

On November 21, 2012, Nicki Minaj used the Electro-Voice EV RE27 N/D microphone during her visit to Z100 Studio in New York City for the Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show, as documented by Getty Images.

Nicki Minaj is confirmed to use the Neumann U87 microphone, as evidenced by a photograph of her in the studio with the equipment.