This is clearly Nicki Minaj’s year.
With “Anaconda” slithering on the charts, Nicki Minaj just scored her 56th hit on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with “Only,” her Lil Wayne/Drake/Chris Brown collabo.
Now in a little over a month (Dec 15), she is set to drop her third studio album The Pinkprint and she is out here beating the path every day.
Ahead of its release, she is gracing the cover of Billboard magazine this week (Nov 7).
On her work ethic.
“I’m on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them,” Minaj tells Billboard. “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.”
On her “Anaconda” video.
“Everything we see that’s labeled as beautiful is very skinny,” she 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.” Famed fashion designer Roberto Cavalli calls her an “ambassador” for the growing acceptance of a shapelier female silhouette: “She inspires women to embrace their curves, and to be more confident.”
On being a judge on American Idol.
“Once I did Idol, a lot of people would come up to me and say, ‘Oh, you’re smarter than I thought. “What does that mean? Was I making weird faces [that made you think] I was stupid?”
Read the full interview HERE.
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