Nicki Minaj discussed her competitive nature in a cover story published today (November 7) by Billboard.
“You should always be competing,” Nicki Minaj says in the interview. “You should always be trying to show that you’re the best.”
Nicki Minaj is currently promoting her third studio album, The Pinkprint, which is scheduled for a December 15 release.
The Young Money emcee said that she is very heavily involved in planning her own career.
“I’m on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team,” Minaj says. “I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry — if you’re sexy or like doing sexy things — some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you’re stupid.”
Her single “Anaconda” peaked at No. 2 in the Billboard Hot 100. The music video attracted criticism for its portrayal of the female form.
“Everything we see that’s labeled as beautiful is very skinny,” Minaj says. “In the song I kind of say, ‘F— them skinny girls.’ But it’s all love. I consider myself a skinny girl. I went overboard with the video to show that I’m not going to hide. And those big-booty dancers I have, they’re not going to hide. Black girls should feel sexy, powerful and important too.”
Beyoncé, who recently enlisted Nicki for a “Flawless” remix, is a woman who Minaj said she respects.
“There’s something about her work ethic that always made me feel like no matter how hard stuff gets, I’m not allowed to complain,” says Minaj. “Some women give me the feeling that where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Minaj said in August that the upcoming album will have no features.
Nicki recently said she recorded 25 songs for The Pink Print.
“I know some artists do, like, 100 songs,” Nicki Minaj said. “But with me, I really don’t like to put my energy into anything that I’m not in love with. If I love it and if it really sits with me, then I mold that one particular record for a while. My biggest problem with this album, believe it or not, is finding out what the hell I can lose, because all the songs are so freaking special and they all mean something. There are songs I know I have to cut that I know my fans would be in love with. It’s getting more strict! The record companies want to go back to putting ten songs on albums, but I always do different genres of music, so if I put out an album of ten songs, my fans would probably kill me!”
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Black girls should feel sexy, powerful and important
Excuse me
Girls should feel sexy, poweful & important
Don’t stoop to white sterotyping
Fuck a white stereotype, we live in a society that places sickly pale anorexic white bitches on a pedestal as the beauty standard and Nicky is saying fuck that and fuck you, Black girls are sexy, powerful curvy and just as important if OT more important than the watered down diluted white ones.
Excuse you mate I think he’s tryna state that all women should feel sexy no matter the colour or shape, by white stereotyping he’s stated that black thoughts are above racism
So many contradictions in her statement.
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How will little black girls ever want to feel beautiful if every inch of you ( the one they all look up to ) bares nothing natural at all!!? Hate to be the barer of bad news. But that’s just dumb coming from you. Lil Nicki…
She’s leading female hiphop at this moment. Anaconda and bang bang are huge hits.
She ain’t leading shit, she’s following pop trends. Anaconda and Bang Bang are not huge hits and are both shit (the latter song isn’t hers).
YOU are stupid, Nicki. Iggy is stupid. Female rappers who run their careers off of pop music and objectifying themselves are stupid. And then you wonder why everyone is “hating”? We’re not hating because we’re jealous. I could care less about how much money you have. I’m hating because your generic pop garbage is tarnishing the culture of hip hop and making it really fucking difficult for hip hop purists such as myself to defend the genre. YOU and artists like you are not hip hop, let’s make that clear. People like you make a mockery of the female population and the culture of hip hop. Now, Jean Grae, Rah Digga, Psalm One- those are some brilliant female rappers. You want some respect? You can do two things- quit singing about for fake 35 year old ass and spit some real rhymes, or issue a public apology for being a whack sell-out piece of garbage and retire. SMFH…
Nicki look like a shemale. Gross. Stupid ho teaches the young to display themself like a window whore in amsterdam. Foh you industry pawn.
That’s why this Barbie doll had so much shit done to enhance her looks
get the fuck outta here
“Everything we see that’s labeled as beautiful is very skinny”
This isn’t 1990 anymore Nikki
Nicki, if you don’t know this already you are stupid! You are shaking and working your big butt all around. You are the one who kills women rappers. The rhymes you say is garbage and no one understand what the hell you are saying. You need to go back and listen to the MC Lyte, DaBrat, Queen Latifah and the most hardest hitting lyrical woman rapper Lil Kim. Listen to them because your shit is garbage! And no one cares about your big fat butt. It is rap music fool! You have to earn your respect! The only respect and fans you have is young little stupid girls and yes you are leader to them. Think about it!!!!!