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Nicki Minaj Covers Billboard’s No. 1’s Year-End Cover

Posted on December 10th, 2015
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The Queen of rap has found herself back on a Billboard cover, but this one might be her most special yet. Nicki Minaj has graced the front of Billboard’s No. 1’s Year-End cover, and gave a very honest and open interview to go with it.

Nicki reflects on her storied career, why she feels like she owes the fans a mixtape, living in LA despite being from NY, her relationship with Meek Mill (she reveals they live together, though they aren’t engaged yet), the upcoming presidential election, how much she’s changed over her career and much more. Here are some notable quotes:

On Black Lives Matter, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, etc.

“I did research on the Sandra Bland case. That’s why it hit me so hard. I remember speaking to other women at the time. This could have been me. I’m a sassy woman. I may have given a little bit of attitude to a police officer. I could have never come home.”

On relationship, potential engagement with Meek

“He [Meek] and I are not engaged. But he said he would like to give me three rings before we get married. My birthday’s coming up, and he better get the new one, because he got [the first one] for my last birthday. So let’s see what happens.”

On a future acting career

“Absolutely. I want to do something very serious. Meryl Streep is one of my favorite artists of all time. She blows me away in just about everything she does. I love how she can go from The Devil Wears Prada to The Iron Lady — she’s so incredible in that. My dream would be to have that type of acting career, where I can do both things believably.”

On a potential new mixtape

“I’ll definitely drop a mixtape. I have to. I want to touch a couple of beats that I wasn’t on. I could have bodied a lot of the records that came out in the last year. But the main thing is, I have to set an example for female rappers. I’m at the top of that food chain, and it’s important to lead by example.”

Read the full cover story here.

2 responses to “Nicki Minaj Covers Billboard’s No. 1’s Year-End Cover”

  1. Nicki Minaj, “I did research on the Sandra Bland case. That’s why it hit me so hard. I remember speaking to other women at the time. This could have been me. I’m a sassy woman.”

    The only similarity I notice btw Ms. Bland and Ms. Minaj is they both have great smiles. The similarity stop there because if watched Ms. Bland’s videos you know Sandra calls for sanity, peace and respect, while Ms. Minaj lives and thrives alongside others who exploit the rap-gangsta culture for profit.

    A few months before she left us, social activist Sandra Bland recorded a video declaring *”War on the Gang-bangers and Thugs”* who she believes have negatively impacted her quality of life as well as harming peaceful people in her community and many American communities.

    Essentially Sandra was speaking about our expanding and shameful *National Epidemic of Childhood Abuse and Neglect*, *Poverty*, that for more than two generations has deprived untold numbers of American kids from experiencing a fairly happy American kid childhood with Safe Streets to travel and play on.

    *Child Abuse and Neglect* that is primarily responsible for populating our prisons with depressed, angry, frustrated, undisciplined, unpredictable, sometimes suicidal teens and adults full of resentment for irresponsibly being introduced to a life of hardships and struggles.

    *Early Childhood Abuse and Neglect* that often leads depressed, sometimes suicidal (NY Times May 18, 2015 – Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers) children to develop into depressed, angry, frustrated, unpredictable teens and adults lacking empathy and compassion for others, though needing to vent their pent up negative emotions, often causing emotional and physical harm to peaceful people…instead of venting their resentment and pain on the immature single moms and/or dads who introduced them to a life of pain and struggle by irresponsibly building a family before acquiring the practical skills, PATIENCE and means to successfully raise and nurture a developing young child who matures into a fairly happy responsible teen and adult.

    Did anyone hear or seriously consider Sandra’s passionate plea for peace…or listen to Sandra’s other videos calling for peace and unity?

    The question all concerned, compassionate Americans should seriously be asking ourselves, our elected, civil, social, community and religious leaders is, “What real substantial changes in our society’s attitude and laws need to occur to prevent abuse that often causes young kids to mature into depressed, frustrated, angry teens and adults as a result of experiencing the *emotional and/or physical trauma of an abusive childhood?*”

    From “Sandy Speaks Archives – GotNews”
    hXXp://gotnewsXcom/tag/sandy-speaks/

    Video – Ms. Sandra Bland declares “War on Gang-bangers and Thugs.”

    hXXps://www.facebookXcom/sandra.bland.5070/videos/vb.73304051/10100590806905754

    Black *(Children’s)* Lives Matter; Take Pride In Parenting; *End Our National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect*; End Community Violence, Police Fear & Educator’s Frustrations

  2. Hi. I am puzzled by something, perhaps someone can help?

    *When & Why Did Our Moms Become Less Than Human?*

    Reading the Rap lyrics written by Nicki Minaj, Azealia Banks and many other American rappers who preceded them over the past three decades, I am trying to figure out who is responsible for influencing or conditioning many Americans of African descent to characterize our moms, sisters, grandmas, daughters and aunts as *itches, essentially less than human creatures…or *hores, people not deserving of respect?

    Growing up in the 60s, year after year I’d roll out of bed in the morning, crank up my 9v transistor radio listening to contemporary sounds, including a new genre of American music its artists, composers, lyricists and producers called Motown.

    My Motown musician friends wrote and performed music that made me smile, wanting to dance, celebrate life and wanting to experience the love between a man and a woman they were constantly telling me about. Every hour of every day I could tune in my radio and listen to my talented Motown musician friends singing songs praising and loving women

    Listening to these musicians celebrating life and loving women conditioned me to believe they are good, peaceful people deserving of respect, admiration and a large “Thank you!” for sharing their musical talent with me, my friends and neighbors.

    What I am trying to figure out is why today, many of my Motown friend’s children and grandchildren are writing contemporary music performance lyrics that clearly are demeaning and HATING on each other, as well as writing lyrics demeaning women, our moms, sisters, grandmas, daughters and aunts, characterizing women as witches and bhores, essentially less than human not deserving of respect? Which is pretty much how greedy or genuinely ignorant early Euros characterized the African people they abducted and enslaved.

    Dating back to the early-mid 80s, Brooklyn rappers were selling CDs to their growing fan base from car trunks, offering rap performance artistry characterizing *the maternal half of our population* as less than human *itches and *hores unworthy of respect.

    What happened? Why have females fallen out of favor with many young people who write rap hip hop performances?

    Another question.

    Today when ten-year-old American kids wake up, tune into their fav contemporary radio station, listening to lyrics describing anti-social activities and behaviors their parents, community and educators are telling them are harmful to them, their neighbors and community, what opinions, if any, will these 5th grade children form about the music performers writing music lyrics describing anti-social behaviors and activities that often emotionally traumatize and physically harm individual peaceful people and the neighborhoods they live or work in?

    Who is responsible for influencing some or many Americans of African descent to view females, the maternal half of our population, as less than human *itches?

    What subliminal messages are today’s youngsters learning when they hear popular Americans of African descent characterizing women, aka our moms, sisters, grandmas, daughters, aunts and nieces, as *hores, not worthy of respect?

    Thanks.

    #TakePrideInParenting
    #EndChildAbuseNeglect
    #ProtectKidsFromIrresponsibleCaregivers