Nicki Minaj is a little bit kooky, and when we say a little bit, we mean a lot. Talking to Marie Claire USA in their current issue, she says that it has taken her a while to feel how big an achievement she has made.
“For the first time I allowed myself to be proud of where my music had gotten me, and I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude. You feel the need to pay it forward, which starts with analyzing yourself with a true desire to grow,” she explains.
The singer has also decided that she wants to become a mother in the not too distant future. “I was praying every day, ‘You know what, Lord? I want to be a mom one day, and I want to start becoming the woman who I want to parent my child.’ I wanted all of the feelings of entitlement to leave me, because some people have this life for a year or five or 10 - and a lot of them lose it.”
Speaking about being a judge on American Idol, she says: “The perception that people had of me completely changed because there are no cue cards, there’s no script, it wasn’t me performing a song. It was, ‘Let’s see your real personality. My core is a genuine human being who roots for other people. I didn’t want to blow smoke up their ass. I wanted every contestant to leave with something that they could remember.”
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Posted by Amy Power.