It’s safe to say that Nicki Minaj has had it with racial double standards.
In the November issue of Marie Claire magazine, the “Super Bass” rapper gets candid about the way Black women are treated in Hollywood, both in hip-hop and the media. In true Onika style, the Trinidadian-born artist didn’t hold back, zeroing in on concrete cases, for example, Kanye West’s 2005 hit track, “Gold Digger.”
“I’m so tired of Black women feeling that when our men get rich, they’re going to leave them for a woman of a different race,” the 33-year-old shared with the publication. “It wasn’t funny when Kanye said [in his 2005 hit ‘Gold Digger’], ‘When he get on, he’ll leave your a– for a White girl’ — and Kanye happens to be with a White girl now. It wasn’t funny when he said it; it was the f—— truth.”
But she didn’t stop there. The rapper, 33, went on to take aim at West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, to highlight the double standard women of color face in the media. “When Kim Kardashian’s naked picture came out, [Sharon Osbourne] praised it, and my fans attacked her for being such a hypocrite. So it wasn’t trashy and raunchy when a White woman did it, but it was when a Black woman did it?”
@kimkardashian you inspired me! #liberated #thetalk pic.twitter.com/R02CdqiCqO
— Sharon Osbourne (@MrsSOsbourne) March 9, 2016
As you may recall, after Minaj’s now infamous “Anaconda” cover art dropped featuring her voluptuous curves in a bubble-gum pink sports bra and G-string — Osbourne famously went on “The Talk” and likened the photo to a “cheap porno cover of a DVD.” A stark comparison to Osbourne’s commentary regarding Kardashian-West’s “inspiring” and “liberating” snap — which she attempted to emulate on social media, herself. “It’s quite pathetic and sad, but that is my reality, and I’ve gotten accustomed to just shutting it down,” Nicki reflected.
The rapper also touched on her opinion, that all women, not just Black women, need to end the growing trend of marrying into money, and instead creating their own. “Nowadays, I feel like [young women] see marrying into money — I think that’s a big thing now. I don’t want that to be a woman’s goal in life,” Barbs explained, before offering some sound advice for those struggling with setting personal goals. “I want your goal in life to be to become an entrepreneur, a rich woman, a career-driven woman. You have to be able to know that you need no man on this planet at all, period, and he should feel that, because when a man feels that you need him, he acts differently.”
What are your thoughts on Minaj’s frank comments about racial double standards in entertainment — more importantly how West and his reality star wife have contributed to the double standards? Sound off in the comment section below.
