![]() “When I was younger I didn’t have much financially, like we couldn’t afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls’ rooms on TV and they’d all be pink. “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.”Ģ0. “When you’re a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to-it’s like, I can’t be all of those things at once. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.”ġ8. “You wanna know what scares people? Success. They have to listen to clean versions of music. I’m very strict on my nieces and my little brother. “You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.”ĩ. “My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. “Your victory is right around the corner. “I vowed that I’d never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don’t want my children seeing that.”Ħ. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who’s not embarrassed to have fun.”ĥ. “When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.”Ĥ. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. To me, I’m not Nicki Minaj when I’m with them.”ģ. “My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now because I don’t like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. You’ve got to have something else to go with that.”Ģ. “I want people-especially young girls-to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. This situation had all the right ingredients to be highly controversial, yet they chose to frame the story in a way that appeared to be totally harmless.1. Perhaps Minaj and her PR people recognized the delicate nature of what was going on with this young girl performing such a raunchy song. So why did she play it safe by advising this hugely talented young girl to put her dreams second? ![]() She took a chance, and it paid off tremendously. She harnessed and nurtured her talent, while believing in herself and her capabilities the entire time while ignoring any and all doubters. ![]() After all, kids admire pop stars and athletes because they followed their dreams – not because they played it safe. That’s the kind of advice you’d hear from a distant relative who has no idea what you’re capable of, who has no idea of who you are uniquely, and knows nothing of what dreams you'd like to accomplish. I don’t know about the rest of you readers, but that’s not the kind of advice I’d want to hear from one of my idols. Put your books first and singing second.” “Music is beautiful, but I want you to stay in school. Towards the end of the segment, Minaj offers the young diva a bit of career advice: However, that certainly seems to be the case in this particular instance. It's hard to imagine that a high cute-factor is enough to excuse the performance of such raunchy and explicit lyrics on national television. However, during the show Minaj requests Sophia to sing the bridge section of "Super Bass" because “people need to hear the bridge”. What Minaj (and her PR folks) are actually doing is directing us towards the least offensive parts of the entire song – which talks about how her “heartbeat is running away” and has all those catchy “boom, boom, boom” parts. The 8-year-old told Ellen that she did not know what the song's lyrics meant.
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