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Nicki Minaj Talks Female Empowerment & Gay-Friendly Hip Hop
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April 19th, 2010www.blackgaygossip.comCelebrities, Entertainment, Nicki Minaj

Regardless of your opinion of her, it’s undeniable rapper Nicki Minaj is one of the most sought after players in this music industry game. The Queens-born rapper recently did an interview with Details wherein she discussed her new found status as a role model, female empowerment and her thoughts on hip-hop becoming gay-friendly.

Check out the excerpts after the jump…

Q: What can women get away with in hip-hop that men can’t?
A: I have a lot of freedom to be crazy. I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper. And I can show my boobs. Guys can’t do that.

Q: You sign your fans’ breasts at shows. Do their boyfriends get jealous?
A: If anything, boys are telling me to sign their girls’ boobs. I’ve gone through 15 markers in a single night—because the girls are usually sweating, and a marker will stop writing if the girls are wet.

Q: As an openly bisexual rapper, do you think hip-hop is getting more gay-friendly?
A: I think the world is getting more gay-friendly, so hip-hop is too. But it’s harder to imagine an openly gay male rapper being embraced. People view gay men as having no street credibility. But I think we’ll see one in my lifetime.

Q: Your father set fire to your home when you were a kid in Queens, New York. What happened?
A: He drank a lot and did drugs, and he would get violent when he did. When he set fire to the house, he was attempting to kill my mother. She got out before it burned all the way down. I’ve always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind—because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn’t be. I thought, “If I’m successful, I can change her life.”

Q: As younger and younger fans come to your shows, do you feel pressure to tone down the racier elements of your persona?
A: I do. I’m a role model now. I didn’t know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I’ve tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don’t want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.

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6 Responses to “Nicki Minaj Talks Female Empowerment & Gay-Friendly Hip Hop”

Peaches April 19th, 2010 at 8:34 pm

She is a character. Pple need to start seeing her as that and get up off her back. It’s just entertainment
D says April 21st, 2010 at 10:03 am

^^^She’s a character…that I see…but I don’t believe she’s gay…or bi or whatever you may call it…
yuriah May 20th, 2010 at 8:30 pm

peopel say you are gay is that ture
yuriah May 20th, 2010 at 8:32 pm

peopel say you are gay is that ture but i dont think so

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yuriah
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