Nicki x V Magazine

Safe to say that Nicki is taking over by storm. Here is once again another cover she's blessed with her beauty. The upcoming spring '11 issue on the cover of V Magazine.

You just shot the music video for your next single “Moment 4 Life,” featuring Drake. What are you working on next?

We’re shooting the video with Rihanna for “Fly” this weekend. We’re going to save the world in more ways than one with the video and that’s all I can say about that… I love Ri-Ri! I mean, when she’s not grabbing my ass she’s a sweet girl.

Who are some of your favorite artists outside of hip hop?

I like everyone. I don’t listen to music based on genre. Like, I’ll hear a song and then I’ll live for that song for like months and I’ll be like, “Who the hell is that?” I listen to Taylor Swift. I like Coldplay. I listen to gospel a lot. I listen to anything that’s just beautiful music.

Would you do a song with Taylor?

Of course!

Personally, I think you should do a song with Lady Gaga, who you’ve been compared to in the past.

A lot of people say that to me! I’d definitely be open to it, yeah… I mean, Gaga is badass. Being compared to greats can never bother me.

What does all your success mean to you?

I’m proud that women, female rappers that come in this game after Nicki Minaj can see that, you know what? There is a chance for you to sell just as much as the boys and to be recognized. And you don’t have to feel like, because you’re a female rapper, you going to not be recognized. And so for that alone, I’m proud. I’m happy.

Lastly, are you single?

Yes. I’m single and ready to mingle [laughs].

Make sure you look out for it on the newsstands.

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Nicki Minaj x Black Men Mag

Nicki does another "WOW" issue of Black Men's Magazine for their special SSX tribute issue that will be released later on this month.

High Class meets White Trash

Who would have think these two great but different rappers Nicki Minaj and Eminem would have come together and birth this POPPIN' song . . ROMAN'S REVENGE produce by Swizz Beatz. Nicki clearly goes of on Lil'Kim in a pretty straight forward way . .

"So fuck I look like gettin’ back to a has been?

Yeah, I said it, has-been"

"Is this the thanks that I get for puttin’ you bit*hes on?

Is it my fault that all of you bit*hes gone?

Shoulda sent a thank-you note, you little ho

Now I’ma wrap your coffin with a bow

(Ni-ni-ni) “Nicki, she’s just mad ’cause you took the spot”

Word, that bit*h mad ’cause I took the spot?

Well, bit*h, if you ain’t shittin’, then get off the pot

Got some niggas out in Brooklyn that’ll off your top"

Listen here . .

PINK FRIDAY!!

IT'S PINK FRIDAY HOE !!!!

Ok, sorry for the random outburst. . But I'm somewhat excited for the release of Nicki Minaj's DEBUT album at the end of November! Rumor has it that she will be dropping her album the same day as Kanye's & also Jay-Z's "The Hits Collection Vol.1" Album.
That'll be big if the rumor is true! Whatever she decides to do we wish you the best of luck Nicki!! You deserve it barb because you defenitely have been doing your thing !!

:-* ♥

Miss Minaj covers Complex !

Where do all your different voices come from?

Nicki Minaj: I have no idea. I think Wayne kind of influenced that. He has always been really carefree when he raps and I was like, "I don't have to stay in one cadence or stay in one tone when I rap—I can just do what I want."
But you've been saying in recent interviews that you might tone down the voices.

Nicki Minaj: Sometimes the shit I say is over people's heads and I feel like I need to dumb it down a bit so people can understand it. I think if I had said a lot of raps in a particular voice, people would go, "Yo, that shit was hard"—but when you change up your voice a little bit, they can't see past that. And they're lookin' at me like, "This bitch is stupid"—and I'm lookin' at them like, "No, bitch, you're stupid." [Laughs.]

So on your album and going forward, you're going to mellow out on the voices?

Nicki Minaj: I definitely made a conscious effort to tone the voices down a little bit.

The successful female rappers that have come before you each had a strong male counterpart. How do you make sure people don't say Lil Wayne is pulling the strings on your career?

Nicki Minaj: I always keep Nicki Minaj separate from Young Money. I allow Wayne to call the shots when we do group albums, but when I do other things and have other choices, I don't necessarily need everyone's go-ahead. I write my own raps, I go in the studio by myself. There are some female rappers who can't go in the studio unless they have a ghostwriter sitting right next to them. I'm the complete opposite—I'll go in and ghostwrite for someone.

It seems like Young Money as a whole doesn't get caught up in beef. Has Wayne sat you or Drake down and advised you to avoid that route?

Nicki Minaj: He's definitely told me, "Yo, leave that bullshit alone. That's for people who ain't got shit else to do." I've watched Wayne handle himself so well. I've seen people take shot after shot after shot at him and if it fazed him, I never saw it. People take shots because they're hoping for a little bit of your energy. They need fuel.


There's been a lot of speculation about your sexuality in the press. Your verse on Usher's "Lil' Freak" adds to the buzz that you're bisexual.

Nicki Minaj: When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen. I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. [In the press] I didn't say [I don't like women]. I said I don't have sex with women. I don't have sex with men right now either. If [bisexual is] what they wanna call me, then fine.

So right now Nicki Minaj is celibate?

Nicki Minaj: Yes, and I encourage all my young Barbies to do the same. I just don't have time.

Nicki Minaj x Out Mag!

'Out' magazine caught up with Nicki Minaj for a cover story calling her a 'Curious Case' and really wanting to know if she has what it takes to change the game ! Check out the behind the scenes video, pics and excerpts from the interview !

"Three years ago, Minaj was an unknown from 50 Cent’s neighborhood trying to get noticed on MySpace. Her mom had filled her childhood home with music (“I knew the whole Diana Ross collection before I was 8,” she says), but her father introduced her to violence. On the 2008 track “Autobiography,” she raps about how her drug-addicted dad tried to burn down the family’s house with her mom still inside. Despite the turmoil -- or perhaps because of it -- young Nicki was passionately creative. She wrote her first rhyme before she turned 12 (“Cookie’s the name, chocolate chip is the flavor / Suck up my style like a cherry Life Saver”) and attended LaGuardia High School, the arts academy immortalized in Fame, where she studied drama and generated plenty of it."

“I was definitely one of those girls where you heard me before you saw me,” Minaj recalls, kicking off a pair of velvety platform heels in a tidy Los Angeles hotel suite and stretching out her calves, which are tightly wrapped in black leather leggings. She pondered careers as a bus driver or lawyer and worked a day job at Red Lobster saving up money for studio time. When she started to get serious about music, her then-manager recommended she change her name to Minaj (she was born Onika Maraj). Though she now admits she hated it, she obliged, tarting up her image for her first mix tape, 2007’s Playtime Is Over, which opens with a sex line call to 1-900-MS-MINAJ. After she skillfully remade the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Warning” for the DVD documentary The Come Up, she got a call from Lil Wayne. Over the course of two more mix tapes under his supervision, 2008’s Sucka Free and 2009’s Beam Me Up Scotty, she developed ferocious new identities, penned jaw-dropping explicit raps, and emerged as the first lady of Wayne’s Young Money crew. She also started to fend off pervy guys stalking her online by playing to her female fans. "

"As for her increasingly elaborate looks, Minaj insists, “No one would even have had the balls before to suggest things like my hair.” She appears in Ludacris’s “My Chick Bad” video with a pin stuck in her pink do, jet-black lipstick, and spikes on her shoulders. She sports a half-pink, half-blonde wig in the clip for Young Money’s “Roger That” because her stylist “hadn’t dyed one half of the wig yet, and I really wanted to wear it.” Though she didn’t realize it, these bold choices paired with her frank sex talk were making Minaj an underground gay heroine. She first learned of her gay male following when she spied fans’ spot-on renditions of her verses on the Web. She was blown away by the replications of her voices and mannerisms. “If a gay guy impersonates you, you are a bad bitch. Period,” she says, waving her bright-orange nails in the air. “There are no ifs, ands, or buts, because they only impersonate the best.”

MOB video of the week

I've been waiting for this video since the song came out. ENJOY =)

Nicki Minaj: 'Your Love'

The highly anticipated video for Nicki Minaj's 'Ypur Love' video dropped this morning a 6am on every MTV channel, and we have it here too :) ! This song is off of her upcoming album that's dropping on Nov. 23rd ! Surprisingly she didn't do too much in this video, she looks cute though while it was something different for her. Check it out !

Nicki Minaj - New Music - More Music Videos

All I Do Is Win: Behind the Scenes..

(B O S S)

This weekend in Miami (where it all happens) Diddy, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Loso, DJ Khaled and friends were on the set shooting the "All I Do Is Win" remix video. Shoutout to DJ Khaled for always doing the biggest callbo's !

(She's plotting on how she can take Cassie away from Diddy :-P)

P.S. doesnt Nicki look GREAT!

XXL x Nicki Minaj

Remember the previous post on XXL x Nicki Minaj and Drake well this is part two of the post(and stay tune for part three). Nicki Minaj pulls off a Marlyin Monroe photo shoot with a little of her touch/edge to it.

Your buzz has been growing more and more each month. How has that felt for you?
Yeah, I guess it has been growing, thank God. I dunno, it’s been an exciting whirlwind. I never really know what to expect. But the buzz has definitely been heightening, so I’m happy.

When did you first start to feel that things were coming together for you?
I definitely think that, when I shot the [“Up Out My Face”] video with Mariah Carey, I started feeling like, Wait a minute, this is not something I really ever envisioned for my life just nine months before that

Bad B%&$H Award Goes To

“The song is called ‘Massive Attack,’ ” she explained. “I’m excited for people to hear me … doing more than one verse. It’s really creative. Shout-out to [songwriter] Sean Garrett. I’ve always loved his style. He really kinda had a great idea of what I wanted to do. I wanted to be theatrical, but I am very serous about what I do. He was able to mesh that together and have a really fun but direct record, if that makes sense. … This video, it’s just, like, monsta. The video is a monsta."

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Barbie of Many Styles

I don't know about you but I love Nicki Minaj! She's actually "killing em" , with her many collaborations, spreads in magazine, and now the host of RIP The Runway co host with Pooch! Well keep it up Nick your doing a great job !

"They say my shoe came crazy,

The mental Asylum looking for me,

You a rookie to me "

The Barbie blesses us with a spread in " Right On " magazine with her pink-ness.