Rapper Nicki Minaj chatted with THE SUN (Europe) recently about different issues from being a role model to young teens, her troubled childhood and other issues. Excerpts......
“Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn’t want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little.
“I always say, ‘Listen. I don’t want you saying the bad words, put school first’. At the same time, I am like their bigger sister. I’m not like their mum.
“I have to give
them the good with the bad. If I censor them completely and say ‘don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t’ then that’s what they are going to ‘do do do do do’.
“You have to tell kids this is the real world but they don’t have to go down this road. Just pay attention and do your best. When they really connect with me they know how big I am on school and how I always promote independence for women.”
“A lot of people send me direct messages on Twitter telling me what they are going through – their father is on drugs, this and that and the third. They feel like they can deal with all this stuff because I did and survived. They can have the worst hand dealt to them but they can do whatever they set their hearts on.
“A lot of fans say they like me because I don’t give a damn what they say about me. As a teenager you spend so much time worrying about what people say about you. When you have someone to look up to and you feel they don’t care, it makes you more comfortable with yourself.
“Whether you are overweight, whether you feel ugly, whatever it is. You know what? I am a bad bitch. I don’t care. Go f*** yourself. That’s the attitude they have. A lot of people on Twitter trying to be funny will say to me, ‘Damn you for giving these girls so much confidence. Now everybody thinks they look good’.
“That makes me feel good. If these girls walk around thinking they are the baddest thing on the planet, I am happy. That’s my manifesto. That’s my mission statement.”
“Getting used to the attention from paparazzi is something new. When I think of them I think of Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson. I’m a rapper – it’s unusual. It’s a big thing for me to be a spectacle. When I don’t do it, I feel like I am letting people down.
“It’s like they don’t climax. They get to the point waiting to see you and then it’s a disappointment if I’m not dressed up. I felt like I should have been looking more Minaj when at the airport in London. That’s what people want to see, that makes the kids excited.
“They will wear your outfits for Halloween. It makes them feel like you are having fun with them.”
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