UK popular music magazine NME presents The Gospel According To Nicki Minaj in their February issue. The magazine listed the 10 commandments of Ms. Maraj, take a look at the list & a few excerpts from the interview below.
1. If thou is born with it, thou is born with it.
2. Thou shalt walk tall.
3. Thou shalt keep it clean.
4. Thou shalt be what thee sayeth.
5. Thou shalt not get caught.
6. Thou shalt remember what thou hast to lose.
7. Thou shalt always graft.
8. Thou shalt have no regrets.
9. Thou shalt not double cross.
10. Thou shalt exercise restraint.
Nicki Minaj on being born with it: I think people are born with star power. I do think that there is something inside of people that when they’re born they’re ambitious. I feel like I was going to win, whatever I have to go through. I’m not gonna let up on it.
Nicki Minaj on empowerment: Girls tell me this all the time: ‘Whenever I feel like a bad bitch I play your music’. I want girls to get confidence listening to me; I want them to feel like they don’t have to play second fiddle to a boy. ‘I am not Jasmine, I’m Aladdin’. That’s the first line of my album. Treat me just like you treat the boys, I’m strong, I’m capable, I’m just like them. I can hold my own, and that’s what I want girls to take away. Someone told that to me the other day, ‘You’re not the underdog anymore, Nicki.’ I had to really soak that in, like, ‘What? I’m not the underdog anymore?’ I have to say, you know what, maybe I’m not the underdog anymore. We have to be able to say that, and own it. Absolutely own it. When girls walk out on the street they need to know that if someone doesn’t like them, or doesn’t like their face or their body or whatever, it doesn’t matter.
Nicki Minaj on toning it down: If you listen to my album, compared to my early mixtapes, a lot has changed. I mean, I really toned down the sexual stuff. There was no need for me to do it, I feel like in the past females have kinda relied on that because they feel like that’s all they have to offer.
Nicki Minaj on being Nicki Minaj: The more people mocked my individualities, the more I wanted to play on them. ‘Oh, you don’t like my weird voice?’ I’m gonna do it more and more and I’m gonna show you that you’ll love this fucking weird-ass voice! And you’re going to learn to love me opening my eyes and pulling my weird-ass faces because I notice, like, ever since I was little, if I know that something annoys you I’m gonna do it more and more. I wanna get a reaction, I was like that when I was little and it wasn’t a great thing because me and my brother, well, my little brother would beat me up all the time because of it!
Nicki Minaj on love: I have no romance in my life at all, and it’s not important to me right now. I have love for people who are on my team that I see every day and for my family, that’s what makes me do what I do. I also have love for people that I interact with. If I have too much of the romantic love, I feel like it will distract me. Right now I feel like a robot.
