Nicki Minaj Does Vibe And Discusses The Famous Photo Of Her And Diddy ( Pictorial)

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Nicki Minaj is one of the cover girl’s for Vibe’s June/July Split Issue. The other cover features Erykah Badu…In the cover story (which drops June 15th), Nicki Minaj reveals why she uses Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s rhyming style and female rappers pushing sex in their lyrics:

On her and Diddy
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People don’t get when you’re off, or you’re having a bad day,” she says, obliquely referring to the photograph that bounced around the blogs of her hand- in-hand with Diddy, looking especially miserable. The speculation was inevitable: Had she been crying? Was she just tired? Are they doing it?


On her sexually charged lyrics and why she eventually changed her style

“When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly,” she says. “The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.”

On her tribute to ODB
“I’m not abandoning the funny voices. I just did a crazy tribute to ODB’s ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya,” she says, perfectly impersonating the late Wu-Clansman. “But it’s coming up more with the album. I had a teacher in elementary who would stand on her table and whisper. We’d all turn around like, ‘What is this lunatic doing?’ But she would achieve what she wanted. She wanted us to stop talking and listen. I feel like I need to mellow it down so people can hear what I have to say.”referfix

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