Now that all the backlash of her "controversial" performance at the GRAMMYs is almost over, it is time for Nicki Minaj to get back on track and start promoting herself to get the crowd ready for the release of her sophomore album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" on April 3rd (that's if it doesn't get pushed back... AGAIN!).
That's why Nicki Minaj is the lady on the cover of "Vibe" magazine for their March issue, and this time, the rapper had a lot of honest thoughts about her current status in the industry, the fashion world and her thoughts on the critics.
"It’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. I really don’t have a lot of small talk with people I work with. It’s pretty much let’s get the job done."About her fashion persona:
"Yeah, I realized more recently that even if it’s for a fashion magazine, I’m not gonna change who I am. When I was doing photo shoots last year, I kept on being told, ‘This is what we want your hair to look like and this is what we want you to look like,’ and it really, really stifled my creativity … But I’ve made up my mind that when you see a Nicki Minaj magazine cover from now on, it’s really going to reflect me and it’s going to be something that I creatively had a hand in, because I don’t have to do it anymore. I don’t have to do things just to please people.”Related to her experiences while making her debut album "Pink Friday":
"I felt like I had something to prove to everyone who said a female rapper could not make an album unless she was talking about her p—-. And so I went above and beyond to prove that I could not talk about sex and not talk about my genitalia and still have a successful album. And I proved that. Now my time for proving things to my critics is over. I don’t really need to prove anything to anyone else anymore."And her mantra for this new phase of her career:
"The fashion world will have to come to Nicki Minaj, as opposed to Nicki Minaj trying to go to the fashion world."
