With the recently passed holiday still fresh in the public’s consciousness, rapper Nicki Minaj has more than a few things to be thankful for. For starters, the New York-born rapper has been able to create a rabid fan base as a female emcee — an amazing feat in itself, considering the current landscape for female artists.
But even though she’s thankful for her current top-dog position, Minaj still believes in speaking out on the double standards within the industry when it comes to women. She expressed as much in a recent documentary with MTV. Check out some of the highlights.
On being an assertive woman …
“When I am assertive, I’m a b—-. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He bossed up. No negative connotation behind ‘bossed up.’ But lots of negative connotation behind being a bitch. Donald Trump can say, ‘You’re fired.’ Let Martha Stewart run her company the same way and be the same way. [People will say] ‘F—ing old evil b—-!’ But Donald Trump, he gets to hang out with young b—–s and have 50 different wives and just be cool.”
On the expectations society puts on women …
“When you’re a girl, you have to be everything. You have to be dope at what you do but you have to be super sweet and you have to be sexy and you have to be this, you have to be that, and you have to be nice … it’s like, ‘I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human being.’ “
On not settling for less …
“I put quality in what I do. I spend time and I spend energy and I spend effort and I spend everything I have, every fiber of my being, to give people quality … So if I turn up to a photo shoot and you got a $50 clothes budget and some sliced pickles on a mother—-in’ board, you know what? No. I am gonna leave.”
Nicki Minaj is on pace to sell over 400,000 copies of her debut release Pink Friday. –djr
