Nicki Minaj Covers FADER Magazine (News)

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Nicki Minaj graced the cover of FADER magazine’s fall fashion issue. Inside the mag Nicki opens up about the hardships of being in the public eye, being a role model to young black women, and The Pink Print. She also revealed that wants to get a collabo with Rhianna and Drizzy on her new album.

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On how she’s evolved: “I think early on in my career, I was… just a little bit crazy. I took everything personally. That’s just not good, and it’s not healthy. I think one of my best attributes now, as a businesswoman and an artist and a professional PERSON, is being able to think before I speak. I’ve learned that everything I think doesn’t necessarily need to be stated.”

On her BET Awards speech: “My point of saying what I said was that women need to have a perspective. If we’re out here saying that we’re so confident, and we’re so this and so that, but we don’t even trust ourselves to write down our own thoughts and spit it on a beat?”

On referencing her health scare in her BET speech: “I was making a point to say that the business kills so many people and we don’t even realize it. I can only imagine how many people in this business have died because they may not have wanted to… to be embarrassed publicly. We care so much about what the world thinks that we don’t live, really.”

On moving away from her family: “I don’t want to get emotional. I just miss them. Every time I talk about them, I get emotional.”

On Lil Wayne: “Now we can have conversations and enjoy each other, but I don’t think I’ll ever feel like he’s my peer because of how much he’s done for me. I’ll always think of him like the king.”

On those who question her credibility: “I felt like my pop music made me have to retell my story. My credibility as an MC—I never thought I would have to explain that. I thought it was so evident that I belonged here [in hip-hop].”

On being a role model for young black women: “But every time I do a business venture or something that isn’t the norm for a female rapper, I pat myself on the back. It’s important that corporate America can see a young black woman being able to sell things outside of music.”

Nicki Minaj Speaks On New Album (Video)

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During a recent sit down interview with MTV to promote her new flim The Other Woman, when asked about her new album Nicki said that The Pink Print will return to her Hip-Hop roots.

I went so far to the other side that there’s only one place to go from there. You can either continue doing costumes or you can just say, ‘Hey guess what? This will shock them even more. Doing nothing will shock them even more.’

The tracks on Pink Print are back to my hip-hop roots. And I don’t think it’s something that I’m necessarily trying to do. As soon as I started working on my new album, that’s just the songs that I’ve been writing.