Nicki Minaj is one of hip hops most outrageous and colorful performers, but the rap vixen got her start very young as a student at New York City’s famous Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.

In some new footage that hit the net this week, we see a young Onicka in a class production where she gets pretty testy with a fellow student. In the clip, Nicki is acting but gets so into character while attempting to grab a phone from another girl, that she and her teacher thinks that she actually hit her co-star with the phone.

Check out the cute throwback clip below.