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monica speaks on nicki minaj in latest interview

And it looks like Nicki Minaj has another fan in Monica. “I love Nicki Minaj. I rock with her,” she says. “She’s a beautiful girl. She’s comfortable with trying different things. She knows how to spit it direct like the men too, so she can compete with the best of ‘em.”

Source: Rap-Up.com

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nicki minaj: making minaj with complex magazine

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Discovered by Lil Wayne on a street DVD, Nicki Minaj enjoyed an early buzz that, while strong, hinged on a common archetype: a female rapper who wasn’t hard to look at. But after a year in which the 26-year-old Queens native, born Onika Tanya Maraj, contributed sexually explicit and surprisingly self-aware verses for a slew of Young Money bangers (“Bedrock,” “Up All Night,” and “Roger That”) and became the go-to gal for Usher (“Lil Freak”), Robin Thicke (“Shakin’ It 4 Daddy”), Ludacris (“My Chick Bad”), and Mariah Carey (“Up Out My Face”), she transcended hood-ornament status to be one of the hottest rappers in the game, period.

Her penchant for animated accents and a Harajuku-influenced love for colorful getups begat a cult of personality so strong that even a big-budget disaster like her poorly received first single, “Massive Attack,” couldn’t hold her down. Nicki simply licked her wounds (if only we had been there to help) and came back with the sweet and sultry “Your Love,” which became the first female single to top the Billboard rap charts in eight years. With her debut, Pink Friday, due in November, we’ll soon have a clearer view of which Nicki will be remembered. But whether mold-shattering superstar or Young Money footnote, one thing is clear: She’ll be the one calling the shots.

Complex: Everyone has this image of you as a cartoon character with outlandish wigs, but at our shoot today you were much more low-key.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] Every woman is a character—but people need to see I’m a regular human. It’s like you wear a pink wig and you’re no longer human all of sudden. You’re a thing. Like today [the photographer] was like, “Where is that Nicki Minaj smile?” But this shoot doesn’t call for the Nicki Minaj smile. You guys wanted me subdued, so I’m gonna give you a different side. I’m not gonna pull a string and be like, “It’s Barbie, bitch!”

Is it intimidating to know that, besides The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, there are very few indisputable classic female rap albums?
Nicki Minaj: I want to do well, but I don’t think I’m intimidated. People’s expectations of what I’m capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

You think people still underestimate you, even with the success you’ve been having?
Nicki Minaj: Absolutely. A lot of people don’t know I wrote all the hooks on the album. I arranged the music, did the transitions. [Other female rappers] are told what to do, but I run my entire empire; I don’t think people would expect that.

Was it hard for you to get that latitude from the label?
Nicki Minaj: My generation is creative; all we need is a Baby or a Slim to back us. We don’t need you to tell us what to do, but we need you to nurture our decisions, and I think Cash Money understands that. I didn’t have Wayne obviously, since he’s been in jail, so there wasn’t anyone I could have called and asked for help. Actually, when I’ve relied on people in the past is when I’ve made the biggest mistakes. When I trust my gut, I win.

What are some of your biggest mistakes?
Nicki Minaj: I won’t say.

Were they recent mistakes?
Nicki Minaj: Yeah.

Recent as in “Massive Attack”?
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] Next question.

What has Wayne’s involvement been on the album?
Nicki Minaj: He really hasn’t had any involvement on it. But to be honest, the album doesn’t sound like Wayne. I mean, he’s my biggest influence, but it doesn’t sound like Wayne’s stuff. It sounds like Nicki.

You have the smash single “Your Love” out right now. When did you record it?
Nicki Minaj: Two years ago, before I dropped Beam Me Up Scotty. I loved the beat and the hook, but I didn’t like my delivery on it; that’s why I re-recorded it when it leaked. [Before it leaked] I was like, “This is going in the trash.”
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laurie ann gibson says nicki minaj is “phenomenal, fearless” in latest interview

US: So tell me your story…

LG: I was born in Toronto, and studied with the National Ballet of Canada, I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed – and then there was a Mary J. Blidge audition. Basically they paid so much more, and it became all about the music industry stuff and that’s when I met Puffy. I’ve gone on to work with everyone from The Dixie Chicks to Dido to Puffy to Gaga to Nicki Minaj.

US: What about your newest star client, Nicki Minaj?

LG: Her talent as a rapper and as a singer is first of all phenomenal, and in the same way as Gaga, her records speak to me. She’s free to express the records visually and have that effect when you go to her concert. She’s free to engage the experience, so there’s no box. She’s like, ‘I don’t want to be cute!’ She’s like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything’s pink. She makes a certain move that’s ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I’m evolving Nicki Manaj and developing her style. She’s fearless, and I love her.

Source: US Magazine

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nicki wants beyonce to sing at her wedding?

Young Money labelmates Drake and Nicki Minaj may have playfully joked about jumping the broom—both on record (Drake’s “Miss Me”) and Twitter—but Nicki says she’s waiting ’til age 40-plus before donning a wedding dress.

The 26-year-old MC planned out her next 20 years in VIBE’s Juice issue, revealing that she’ll be ready to settle down in 15 years.

“I want the beach wedding,” Minaj said. “Everything would be white and soft pink. I hate red!”

She continues: “I’d be wearing a strapless dress, gripping around the waist, with a never-ending train. No shoes, just my feet in the sand.”

As for guests, there’s room for little Barbies and a special performer not in Lil Wayne’s crew.

“[I’d] have five little flower girls dressed in Hawaiian straw skirts,” Minaj says. “Then Beyoncé would sing ‘Smash Into You’ and I’d cry like, ‘Oh God.'”

For now though, those plans are in the distant future. In her June/July VIBE cover story, she said “I don’t date women and I don’t have sex with women,” adding in her current Out magazine cover story, “but I don’t date men either.” —John Kennedy with additional reporting by Tracy Garraud

Source: VIBE

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sean kingston talks nicki minaj with rap up tv

Sean Kingston always shows Rap-Up TV love when we catch up with him. At Sunday’s VMAs, the “Letting Go (Dutty Love)” singer stopped by to chat about Nicki Minaj’s reaction to the comments he made about her in our previous interview (“She BBM’d me about it”), the guests on his upcoming album, and why he’s looking forward to Kanye West’s project.

Source: Rap-Up.com

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