Nivea first appeared on the Mystikal's "Danger" in 2001, then in 2002 she scored a Top 20 hit with "Don't Mess With My Man." She performs slick, Hip-Hop-laden Contemporary R&B, delivering tough-but-sensitive-girl-in-a-mean-old-world rhymes in a voice that flutters like Mariah Carey's one minute, and smolders with sex appeal the next. The song "Laundromat" off her self-titled 2002 debut proves that Nivea has ambitions beyond being a single-cutting machine - she doesn't crowd her records with filler.
