First thing’s first, we’ll pick your brains!
During a recent interview, Nicki Minaj opened up about a variety of subjects. Here’s what she had to say…
Nicki on how her Ricki Lake shout out in the Till The World Ends remix started up Ricki buzz:
“I really love Ricki. Of course I was super young when I watched her show, but something about her demeanor just always came across as the girl next door, and she had this sweet smile. It was done as a joke but to know that someone I really like wound up getting a little bit of face time from it — it├óΓé¼Γäós pretty cool. I mean people do that for me, and it├óΓé¼Γäós good to return the favor.”
Nicki on her upcoming tour with Britney:
“…I feel like she has experienced life as an underdog, and I feel like my whole career I’ve been the underdog. I think that it just goes to show that when you are a strong woman, at the end of the day, it doesn├óΓé¼Γäót matter. You bounce back from whatever. And I think she├óΓé¼Γäós probably gone through 10 times whatever I├óΓé¼Γäóve gone through. But the fact that she came back out with just so much fire inspires me, and it inspires young women and people all over the world. It just inspires you. A lot of my fans feel like they are the underdog and feel like they are the people who aren├óΓé¼Γäót ever accepted for themselves, or who are laughed at or poked fun at forever. It just goes to show that once you keep at whatever it is you├óΓé¼Γäóre doing, people may not like you, people may not love you, but they will have to respect you at the end of the day. And that respect is all that matters.”
Nicki’s thoughts on Eminem’s homophobic lyric in the song Roman’s Revenge:
“You know, if I├óΓé¼Γäóm being honest, I didn├óΓé¼Γäót like [him using it]. I spoke to everyone I knew about it. I spoke to my hairdresser, who├óΓé¼Γäós one of my closest friends. I sat him down and said, ├óΓé¼┼ôTerrence, what do you think about this? How does this make you feel?├óΓé¼┬¥ And we had a long, long talk. And he said he didn├óΓé¼Γäót feel like Eminem was talking about a gay person. He felt like it was a word being used to describe a straight man, and he didn├óΓé¼Γäót take offense to it. It├óΓé¼Γäós Eminem — I felt like we were creating a movie. And in the same way, I feel like if you were to watch your favorite actor or actress say ├óΓé¼┼ôfaggot├óΓé¼┬¥ or say ├óΓé¼┼ônigger├óΓé¼┬¥ in a movie, you don├óΓé¼Γäót hate them because it├óΓé¼Γäós like they├óΓé¼Γäóre playing a role.”
” ‘Roman├óΓé¼Γäós Revenge‘ was more like a theatrical piece. I was a character and [Eminem] was a character. This was Slim Shady and Roman. Of course, when it comes to creativity, there├óΓé¼Γäós such a thin line between creativity and something being offensive. But one thing I knew for sure was that my gay fan base knows about how I feel about them, and I├óΓé¼Γäóve embraced them from the beginning — since my mix-tape days. [Reaching out to gay fans wasn’t something I did] once I came into pop culture just to try and get some extra fans. So I felt like the positive would outweigh the negative, and we just kept moving with that.”
Thanks for opening up, Nicki! And we’re actually pretty impressed with how you addressed Eminem’s controversial lyric from Roman’s Revenge.
Can’t wait to see U on tour with Britney!!!
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