Safaree Lloyd Samuels (born July 4, 1981) is an American reality television actor and rapper.

In the early 2000s, he was a hype man for the hip hop group Hoodstars, which included rapper Nicki Minaj.

Safaree Lloyd Samuels was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on July 4, 1981, to immigrant Jamaican parents.

[10] He is in the writing credits of three songs from Minaj's second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012) for ad libs.

[13] In May 2016, it was announced that Samuels joined the cast of the VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood for its third season, which premiered in August 2016.

[16] In August 2017, it was announced that Samuels would compete in the first season of VH1's Scared Famous, which premiered in October 2017.

[17] In 2017, rapper Azealia Banks said in an interview that she did a song with Samuels because she "assumed that he played a part in [some of] Nicki Minaj's hot singles ... but it actually turned out [to be] me writing for him.

[27] Minaj said that he tried to extort her, had stolen money from her, "gained so much off of [her] name" and "refuses to let go", and that she asked him to stop trying to contact her.