Nicki Minaj interview with Vibe Magazine
Jul 7th, 2010 by Bilal Ali
Nicki Minaj talked about why she doesn’t do diss records (and what substitutes for them), why men can’t handle her, and another confusing explanation about whether she likes girls:
DISS HER, YOU’LL NEVER GET A REPLY FOR IT
My diss record is my success rate, and how much I can charge to be somewhere for 30 minutes. That’s my diss record. The fact that I can pay your mortgage for a year in 30 minutes. That’s my diss record. That diss record makes everyone go ooooooh word nicki went in! That’s all I need.
NOT YOUR AVERAGE CHICK
I am way too much for a man. I’m like a boy myself, so all my male friends they like me because I’m like them, and they cant say dumb shit they can say to another regular girl, because I don’t believe it. I don’t buy it. I talk that shit myself just like them. I talk money shit just like them, nothing they can say impresses me. Mainly I think I just call their bluff, and I kind of intimidate them. But I love them nevertheless! They do have something going for themselves.
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]
GIRL TALK
If I say I only stop for pedestrian and a real, real bad lesbian—did that say and then I go home and have sex with that lesbian? I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don’t tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don’t have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I’m gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.