I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldnโt bow down.
Nicki MinajWhen you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.
Nicki MinajThese broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.
Nicki MinajMan I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off.
Nicki MinajI'm very proud of my team, and the way they stood behind me - and I'm very happy to show my female fans in that audience, and even my gay fans in that audience.
Nicki MinajI've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.
Nicki MinajI've had my highs and had my lows but you can't tell me that I am not the baddest chick.
Nicki MinajReal big pretty titty, shut down every city. If you want the kit kitty, gotta get the key from me, all new everything, plus pay the rent for me. If we in the woods then these niggas pitch a tent for me.
Nicki MinajIt's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
Nicki MinajI look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
Nicki MinajAll rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.
Nicki MinajHow could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably
Nicki MinajWhen I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.
Nicki MinajRegister my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.
Nicki MinajJust when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.
Nicki MinajI experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. Iโm a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances.
Nicki MinajI've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
Nicki MinajYou wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
Nicki MinajHalf a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal
Nicki MinajOh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
Nicki MinajI feel like when I reach my 500-million-dollar goal, then no other woman in rap will ever feel like they can't do what these men have done
Nicki MinajI 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.
Nicki MinajI vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.
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