http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...0,710631.story
Whatever the opinions are about Minaj, she made one thing clear to reporters Tuesday morning at the TV press tour for "Idol" in Pasadena: Don’t expect her to push for more rap on the show.
“This is definitely not a rap competition, and when I got involved with ['Idol'], I specifically said I hope they didn’t try to do that because I was on the show,” she said. “America loves that it's an honest singing competition and I’m not here to change that, I’m here to judge.
“I definitely don’t think a rapper should be in this competition. Rap and hip-hop is completely different from ‘American Idol.’ I started off in the streets, selling mixtapes out of my car. It’s a different situation.
“The hip-hop community wants you to be credible. With singing, people don’t really necessarily care what you’ve gone through. If it’s a great song, they are going to love it, 'cause its going to touch them or inspire them. But with rap, it's different. I would never go on a show like this as a rapper. I wouldn’t encourage anyone else as a rapper to come on. I don’t think it's authentic. If you’re really looking for people to see you as an authentic rapper, you wouldn’t do it.”
