Nicki Minaj is everywhere these days. Fashion Rocks, New York Fashion Week, Video Music Awards, Summer Jam. This week she’s donning the pages of GQ Mag.
Rocking her new stripped down look, she talks “Anaconda,” branding and empowerment. Read excerpts below:
On her more natural look.
“I always thought that by the time I put out a third album, I would want to come back to natural hair and natural makeup,” she told me. “I thought, I will shock the world again and just be more toned down. I thought that would be more shocking than to keep on doing exactly what they had already seen.”
On the much talked about “Anaconda” cover art.
“I just said I’ll put it out, never thought in a billion years that people would be putting [other] people’s heads on it. It’s the craziest shit.” I tell her that online I’d seen it as a rocket, jet fuel and fire being released from her undercarriage. “What hasn’t it been?” she says. “They’ve made it everything.”
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