According to Hits Daily Double, Nicki Minaj is on track to sell about 120,000 copies of her debut album, Pink Friday during its first week of release. When Brian Hiatt asked Hip Hop’s Barbie the source of her ambition during a Rolling Stone interview, Nicki offered a detailed account of some childhood experiences that drove her to strive for a better life via entertainment.
“When I first came to America, I would go in my room and kneel down at the foot of my bed and pray that God would make me rich so I could take care of my mother,” Nicki said. “Because I always felt like if I took care of my mother, my mother wouldn’t have to stay with my father, and he was the one, at that time, that was bringing us pain.”
Nicki has previously addressed the issue on the aptly named Pink Friday song, “Autobiography.” And during the course of her interview, Nicki also addressed another issue that seems to pop up rather often in her music. Despite comments to the contrary in Complex magazine, and her simulated kiss of another woman in Usher’s “Lil Freak” video, Nicki says she is neither bisexual or a lesbian.
“I think girls are sexy, but I’m not gonna lie and say I date girls,” she added.
The full Nicki Minaj profile, including why Nicki toned down her once overtly sexual lyrics, and a breakdown of her writing style, is available in the December issue of Rolling Stone.
this bitch been sayin shes only into women and not men I remember readin the wench called men “yucky” obviously tryna tap the fag market that sent gaga sales sourin
now she hasnt sold what she thought all of a sudden shes straight lmao fuck outta here wit your constant lies
Yeah you right. Sad state of affairs to lie about your sexuality just to sell records. I’d still give her the business though. But once again…she needs to get on some pure dusty hip hop production and ride it out. She’d be better if she was more urban and hip hop than this mess she’s doing now.
So the backlash on Lil’ Kim calling her a fake mini-me is true then. Nicki says the far-fetched shit for attention and sales… just as fake as “Officer Ricky” if you ask me, but Rick got much better production.
ALL FAKE! I AM SO TIRED OF THIS WHATEVER SHE IS. I LIKE HER LAST WEEK BUT SHE IS A LIAR. ALL GIMMICK! AND HER CD IS JUSTA BUNCH OF WORDS THAT MEAN NOTHING! BOOOOOOO NICKY 6 MINDS!
i thought she was projected to sell 375 – 425k copies, not 120k, thats quite a difference in what you guys printed last week…..
I was thinking the same thing. Looks like hiphopdx is label owned though so they’ll say anything to trick people into buying shitty music.
it was on xxl too, which is also in cahoots with complex media network bullshit
I wish she’d just kill herself
This site has it wrong , right now nicki has 117,000 copies sold with 36% of the stores reporting thier sales thus far. She’ll end up reaching around 300,000 copies sold I would guess.
thats 300 000 sad pathetic people that should be executed
I expected a CD of 60 mins of sex, cash, hoes but she tried to expand and a good try is better than a hard fail. I like the direction of what she’s doing. 120k is 36% of what she actually sold. Multiply that like 3 or 4 times because according to those same stats Kanye only sold 160k.
And I think Autobiography is a mixtape song cuz its not on Pink Friday.
how do u know what she sold
The first week numbers you see are number of units shipped typically. After about 6 months to a year the stores start to ship back extra copies that didnt sell and the actual sales numbers are revealed. So she may have had 400,000 copies shipped and only actually sold 140,000…Thats a huge loss on the label if theyre not able to get the rest of those copies sold before stores ship em back.
All these conspiracy theories are hilarious. First you people bitch about Illuminati, now we’re supposed to be in bed with XXL to help Nicki sell more? Get the fuck out here with all the little Nancy Drew mystery stuff. Where’s the proof? At least come with some Smoking Gun type evidence.
Calm down nigga, most of the shit ppl comment on, they don’t take it seriously, it’s just a way of saying, “something ain’t sound right”, or it’s just a way to say, “we ain’t getting the whole picture”.
The smoking gun is the huge amount of articles given to artist x or artist z…And those same artists are hyped up even more when sites like this jump online and start talking massive sales numbers just to try and convince a few more buyers to go and and pick up the shit. It doesnt take an idiot to see the radios are in bed with the labels, and the labels use sites like these to push promote their artists.
She created all those types that are headling this editoral or whatever this is…
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I always new the Best Female Rapper didnt wasnt that way, she just say that just to get people talking, just like that Drake marriege, i knew that was fake also.
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Things I learn from reading HipHopDX comments:
1. Hip hop fans are every bit as prejudiced as southern rednecks. It’s not okay to hate one group of people, but it’s okay to hate this group of people. You can’t say the n-word, but you can say the f-word. You do know how stupid you guys look to educated people, right? No? Carry on, then.
2. Hip hop fans act more like A&R’s than fans. You do know that album sales don’t determine quality, right? And that no normal person gives a fuck? No? Carry on, then.
3. People overrate weak music (Nicki Minaj) and continue to pimp their own terrible music in the comments to news articles. Hey, wanna be rapper: If your music was any good, I wouldn’t be hearing about it on comment #478 of a Hip Hop DX article. You do know nobody in their right mind is going to click that, right? No? Carry on, then.
Hahaha nice!
aye yo but real talk, I heard comment #478…shit was FIRE!
Thats the realest post in the history of HHDX I think
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Yeah, and the sad thing is HipHopDx is actually one of the better Hip Hop sites on the net. Sites like World Star are even worse(content,comments,and the people that frequent their). It seems the comments from the people are one tracked, the music is usually the same trash(in different forms)and the other videos are just displays of ignorance.
What are you a F’n cop. STFU, or GTFO. If this site angers you sooo much then leave. You think you’re going to influence and change the way some ignorant ppl think, because you write a clever paragraph filled with sarcastic under tones? No? Then carry on then. Faggot!
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No 1 is surprised that she says 1 thing but believes n another, her own dog & phony show is made up of plastic, but she still can rap good, and thats what she should do, jus do her, and leave the rap beef alone, cuz she clearly has taken lil kim style!
i would be shocked if she didnt go gold 1st week, considering all the hype. coulda sworn she said she was bi, but i guess you gotta do whatever in an attempt to sell records.
She’s going gold off the price of her CD alone. I sincerely doubt if that P.O.S. weed plate was full price people would need to second guess buying her shit. A bargain is a bargain.
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A young bitch that’s sexually confused…what a shocker.
bitch is fake as fuck
its alot of fags on dis bitch lookin at some of the comments
I never thought I’d live to see the day when rappers had to act gay to be popular
SMH
Hip Hop now reminds me of the New Wave Pop Era of the 80’s, when everybody had to act like Boy George and dry hump another mans leg or MTV wouldnt play your video
Hip Hop in 2010 = Everything it use to be against
And I’m not gay bashing either, I just find it pathetic that Nicki Minaj isnt Bi-Sexual when she’s been acting the part and selling herself to that audience like a hip hop lady gaga for the last year……Ol Girl should be ashamed of herself
Man she ugly!!! Would not fuck her with my worst enemy’s dick!!!
She’s ugly just like your face
she gonna lose some of her homo fans now, she waited until they bought the album LOLZ
she may have gone through a phase or something. why try to make her a bisexual? some of us straight’s are so mesmerized with homo’s sometimes it makes me wonder. much love nicki. glad that you put it out like that boss thug lady
Ok Mr Jean-Baptiste,Ima report this to your father.
how fake can you go?
RIIIIGGGGGHT.. I’m not gonna lie, I kinda miss the sex driven lyrics she used to spit, who wouldnt? now she just watered down kool aid with splenda.
its funny she said she was bi once hmmmm
Nicki just lying about everything before, first with Foxy and now being a lesbian\bisexual
I’m not going to lie I would fuck like every guy here would. Call her fake and shit I don’t care every guy would fuck her. Just saying what every guy thinks.
every guy would fuck every gurl so whats the point
I wish the child molester would have killed this stupid whore, her music sucks and fucking pisses me off how shes always “news” every fucking time I come on this website, it makes me puke
Don’t wish death my friend. I know this is just posting but it shouldn’t go that far.
I wonder if people regret typing bullshit like that. You hope a RAPIST would have killed a person because YOU don’t like her music.
I mean damn. When I don’t like a rapper, I just push the off button and go on with my day. You can try that
Is this bitch retared…. Theres an interview of youtube that says she goes after girls if there cute enough…. Okay dating, and fucking are two different things, but it still makes a bisexual if your fuckin em…. Dumb trick
I’d hit it.
I understand that nicki minaj has made her career with the hottest lyrics ,but i feel that her “character” that she portrayed really 95% made it also..HER SEXUALITY MADE HER FOREMOST..and now it said to just be talk making like what else is being said that she actually aint about..the shit was hott that she came out with..but the downfall is not that person..like all the rappers claim to smoke dat green and once sold dat dope..”aint really did it” and actually telling us truth(which is great) but aint real..Something and Someone dat stands out brings out a character and dats exactly what it is a “CHARACTER”..it felt good to think someone came out themselves didnt care..prop for speakin up 4 lesbians but i suggest that the point of view she came from wasnt the truth it sucks..especially makes since with all da shit kim says…just our generation might not know all about that..look it up..thankx
oh yeah i think she really did get it twisted for rappin and acting….some things just aint good….DIS AINT ACTIN>> im pissed but can care less
Nicki is mad dope as a pop artists. She has contradictory statements?!? So what.
She’s a pop artist selling a product.
It’s all marketing – not substance.
The Hip Pop version of Lady Gaga.
The only thing relevant to me is – what is Nicki doing for the Black community?
I get the “story” of trials and tribulation ending up in her drive for success and she has made it – but HipHop is about moving the community to a higher level, not just the individual.
i was one of her biggest fans yo, cause she do got a raw flow and mad punchline. but fuck this fake ass barbie bitch now i dont fuck wit her. thought this dumb hoe was really bi, shouldve known. i hate this hoe now. her bein bi was her biggest turnin on now she just a crazy bitch to me
You’re an ignorant fuck and should go die somewhere cold.
i agree with this dude ^^^
and i also thing u just another hater
she like a female rick ross to me now, tryna sell a image, nothing but a hip hop character
Hard Luck Sob Story? Check.. Promoting a lifestyle you don’t really live? Check… ok you’re a rapper now nikki, do your thang
Well said…she’s a cuuuunnnttt
so where in the video does nicki kiss the girl? cuz I dont see it??
sorry, but i love Usher lol 🙂 He is a great singer. 🙂
she slapped those girls ass in that booty contest was a lil suspeck
120,000? that aint ish
KAYSLAY CAME AT THIS BITCH WITH REAL TALK, AND SHE COULDN’T HANDLE IT LOLOL
But you do lie and say you date girls…maybe not date them but there’s tons of lesbian references in her tracks, she’s so fake it makes me sick.
Faulty rappers will be(fake) gay to sell records? Dont know why were surprised!
About six more months we wont have to hear about this fraud. Hell after KIm’s diss it might be quicker than that before this fraud falls off the face of the earth.
i have relieze u just enjoy hating ; nicki do ur thing.
WOW THIS BITCH WAS SAYING ALL THOSE SONGS ABOUT BEING A LEZ AND WANTING TO GET WITH AMBER ROSE WAS ALL PUBLICITY. BITCH WHAT HAPPEND U WAS HOTTER THAN DRAKE NOW U AINT SHIT. also what happend to 350 sold in the first week. now its only 120 this bitch aint even gonna go gold. they waited to long to drop her shit. now she all switchin up wanting to date dudes now bitch plz
why is everyone wetting their pants over Nicki Minaj? She’s garbage, much like all female hip hop artists. 120,000 of u fools have bought this garbage. You should have held off for about a month and u cud have saved urself some money – this shit is gonna be in the bargain bin of every music shop in the world very shortly.
She sold alot of albums despite their being a recession right now…the recession is over(When that happen?)thaks to Amazon.com selling it for $4.99…WTH?! And, thats all we sold…
WHY Y’ALL HATING ON NICKI ITS NOT HER FAULT THAT SHES NOT GAY OR BISEXUAL, OR THAT SHE LEAD EVERYONE ONE TO BELIEVE IT,OR THAT SHE THINKS THAT THIS IS 1996 AND SHES LIL KIM,OR THAT ROMAN REVENGE WAS HER ATTEMPTED TO GET KIM BUT KIM’S BLACK FRIDAY SHUTDOWN HER TURKEY THURSDAY. I MEAN IF YOU WERE HER AND EVERYDAY YOU LOOKED INTO THE MIRROR TO REALIZE THAT YOU AREN’T LIL KIM YOU’D BE A LIL CONFUSED TOO.
She was a has been before she was ever relevant!
Well that’s what you get when you mix the Cat in the hat with Alice goes to Queens.
Y’all niggaz r haterz, Minaj much hotter than drake, this shit is good, she just stupid 2 drop it in the same month as Ye’ and T.I, so people gonna be 2 busy buyin their albums instead. Stop hatin, she good!
You just madd cause she took the spot!
Got some niggas out in Brooklyn that’ll off your top
nicki hotter than drake? this nigga under me is an ass n im a fan of them both but drake is way better my nigga!
If you aren’t bisexual, than why would you say that in your lyrics? That’s just fake. This bitch is fake from head to toe. I used to be able to tolerate her, but I can’t stand her anymore….super annoying
She only made all those gay comments so that she could get the “gays” to listen to her. Its the same thing Lady Gaga does. At every award show she thanks the “gays” because they buy a lot of her music. Its sad but these days a bisexual female is more interesting and sought after than straight female so this article didn’t surprise me at all because I always told people that she was pretending to be Bi to sell more albums and now I can gloat that I was right.
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Who let the dogs out is better and more original than nicki minaj’s whole live.. the baja men worked their fucking ass off to rise above the ranks and get teh fuck out of the ghetto they didn’t tell ANYBODY they were this or that all they fucking did was let the fucking dogs out NUFF SAID
Nikki is trisexual. That means she’ll try and do anything basically. She doesn’t date girls, but she’ll let’em eat the nookie and she’ll return the favor.
Well i tink if shes bisexual gay straight it doesnt matter if thats who you want to be gohead thats your choice but just because someone is gay or watever doesnt mean their differnt i love nicki minaj she the best i don;t care if sshes straightor bsexual or gay watever doesnt matter so stop talking about it if she was gay or straight or bisexaul it has nothing to do with you
oh well doesnt matter if your gya biseaxul gya watever straight its her business people just need to mine their own businesss
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