Nicki was also asked ‘What sound does a Turtle Make’? Continue reading to check out the video!
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Did you miss Nicki’s interview with Billboard.com? We have the transcript of her Q&A questions but we couldn’t include her wit, laughs and funny faces she made during the interview. Check out all 5 parts by continuing this article below.
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“[Who] you know made a million off a mixtape?” Nicki Minaj asks on Drake’s track “Up All Night.” The lyrical question points out just how successful Minaj has become this year even without an album release to her name yet. Her quick-witted rhymes and button-pushing personality have helped her become the most buzzworthy female rapper since Lil’ Kim in a matter of months.

With a million people following her on Twitter, we know there are lots of you out there who have plenty of questions for her, so we’re hosting a live video Q&A on Friday, August 6, 2010 at 6:30pm ET. She’ll be on camera answering whatever you want to know. Tweet your questions to @billboarddotcom using hashtag #bblivechat.

Tune in to this link to watch Nicki Minaj streaming live as she answers your questions!

Source: Billboard.com

NICKI ON HER SOUND
I want to be a balanced artist so its not gimmicky. What people don’t know is that before I was doing that craziness I was doing me, I was just doing regular sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with. But once I started doing all that weird shit—im not mad at it because it got everyone’s attention, but I can sometimes forget that I come from a real authentic place in hip-hop. Im not someone who got signed to a record label who said ‘hey maybe you should do weird voices.’ No. this is all years of me learning me and my style, and decide to do something different that would get everyone’s attention. But I always knew I wanted to come back to my original sound, and the album is going to be a plethora of different sounds. Sometimes people close to me they have their preferences, their favorite Nicki thing, and I have to stand up sometimes and block out the noise.

NICKI ON FRIENDSHIP
Your friends when you don’t speak to them for a long time they do what the rest of the world does: they research you on the internet, and then they ask you questions that make me cringe. You would think your friends know what is a lie and what’s not. But the thing is, they don’t know that person—they know you. They don’t know Nicki Minaj, that’s why they’re questioning things. It’s hurtful sometimes to hear people I consider my friends ask me certain things. My mother would never! Never. People that really know you shouldn’t have to ask if you flew to the moon last night and came back high because they know that’s not you. [Laughs]

HIGH SCHOOL STYLE POINTS
When I first went in there I had baggy clothes but then I met this girl who was older than me by one year, and winded up being my best friend for ten years. And she was dressing like a girly girl and I looked at her and I was like [gasp!]. She was feminine, and wearing makeup. I had never worn makeup and I remember one day after school, and she was like come to my house! And no lie, she lived like five minutes away from me. so I went over and she made my face up and I looked in the mirror and I thought that I looked sooooo beautiful [cackles!]. I was like ‘Oh my God!’ I did not want to take that makeup off! I never wanted to wash my face. She put makeup on me and after that I was going to the pharmacy buying makeup stuff. It wasn’t like MAC it was like going to the pharmacy and getting the $5.99 makeup thing and putting it on your face.
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