Nicki Slams Kanye's "Gold Digger" Lyrics
In a new interview with Marie Claire, cover girl Nicki Minaj gets candid about what it’s like to compete with male rappers, why young women should aspire to become entrepreneurs instead of marrying rich, and why she has an issue with Kanye West and “Gold Digger.” Nicki says she’s “so tired” of black women’s fears that their men will leave them for women of a different race once they get rich. “It wasn’t funny when Kanye said, ‘When he get on, he’ll leave your ass for a white girl,’ and Kanye happens to be with a white girl now,” she says, referring to Kim Kardashian. “It wasn’t funny when it said it; it was the fucking truth.”
Nicki also points to the double standard that women of color face in the media, recalling the time that Sharon Osbourne criticized her “Anaconda” single cover art. (Refresher: In 2014, Osbourne said on The Talk that the cover looked like “a cheap porno cover of a DVD… I love women’s bodies. I love nudity. But that is cheap.”) Nicki says that Osbourne actually praised Kim during her nude photo controversy earlier this year. “So it wasn’t trashy and raunchy when a white woman did it, but it was when a black woman did it?” Nicki says in Marie Claire. “It’s quite pathetic and sad, but that is my reality, and I’ve gotten accustomed to just shutting it down.”
In related Nicki news, the Queen of Barbz took to Twitter on Sunday to clarify that she wasn’t “dragging” Melania Trump during the Tidal X 1015 concert in Brooklyn, even though, as this clip shows, she preached about how “Barack needed a Michelle,” “Bill needed a motherfucking Hillary,” and “You better pray to God you don’t get stuck with a motherfucking Melania.”
October 15, 2016, the day Nicki Minaj dragged Trump's wife & himself for filth!! #TIDALX1015 pic.twitter.com/kIU7PT73CU
- v na$ty 👅 (@thvgshxt__) October 16, 2016
According to Nicki, Melania “seems nice” and all she was trying to point out was that if Donald Trump had the smarts, he would know that a certain “kind” of woman was required for a presidential bid.
Wasn't "dragging". She seems nice. But a smart man knows he needs a certain "kind" of woman when running for President/attempting greatness https://t.co/S2PTIcOXuo
- NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) October 16, 2016
Read excerpts from Nicki’s Marie Claire interview here. The November 2016 issue hits newsstands on Wednesday.
Update 10/17 at 3:32 p.m.: Nicki tweeted the following about her Kanye comments:
"Slams" a man/genius who gave me one of the biggest looks of my career? I said he wasn't kidding, he was speaking the TRUTH about d industry https://t.co/Q0Tqt25B5H
- NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) October 17, 2016
I was saying he's the one who said it first. He doesn't apologize for his choices. He tells the truth about stuff ppl don't wanna hear! https://t.co/V4RU5Rcolv
- NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) October 17, 2016
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