Cyrus Langhorne
Young Money's Nicki Minaj tells all in her new Complex Magazine cover feature including the motivation behind her now-infamous "Anaconda" single's artwork.
According to Nicki, the NSFW cover art came about nearly accidentally.
“The artwork was not premeditated. I was shooting the “Anaconda” video and I had my photographer there taking pictures. When I was about to shoot my next scene, I asked to see the pictures he’d taken. He went through five or six and that one came up, and I was like, “[Gasps.] Oh my God. Yo, that picture is crazy!”” (Complex)
Check out what else Nicki said about the cover art right here…
Nicki also said her confidence as an artist also motivated her decision to press up the artwork.
“What made me excited about it was that people hadn’t seen me do a picture like that in years. The reason why I stopped taking pictures like that was because I needed to prove myself. I needed for people to take me seriously. I needed for people to respect my craft. I’ve proven that I’m an MC. I’m a writer; I’m the real deal, so if I want to take sexy pictures, I can. I’m at the level in my career and in my life now where I can do whatever the hell I want to.” (Complex)
Nicki announced some big news surrounding her upcoming The Pinkprint album this week.
Recently, Nicki revealed just how busy she stayed on a daily basis.
“I’m on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry—if you’re sexy or like doing sexy things—some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you’re stupid.” (Billboard)
wish she wanted to make better music …….. or pr0n ……
Fame kills the brain cells of some of these rappers
Nicki be like ‘Yo SB come here & get on your knees boi!’
she gettn money
Nicki Minaj is one of the first female rappers to write her own material, so she has my respect for that alone!
“one of the first” …… You just started listening to rap in 2008 or something?
Maybe, you should do your homework on albums of the majority of our female rap pioneers. You’d be shocked at how many of them had writers lol.
Maybe you should do your homework. You’d be shocked to know that S.B., her former homosexual band member, is also listed as one of her writers throughout her entire catalogue. lol
LoL well damn.
Homosexual? Why you say that? Coz she put the strapon to him errnight?
Now you’re just making stuff up. Obviously you’re a troll.
Bitch please… You’re just desperate nowadays so you’re doing everything for people’s attention.
Conference calls to come up wit results like anaconda?
Twerking don’t require no conference call