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Nicki addresses "sell-out" comments in new interview
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[Queen Latifah] is someone who I tip my hat to because Queen Latifah looked at it and said, "Okay, wait, hmm, I mean I wanna be 40 years old rapping. I — the hip-hop fans may not want to hear me when I'm 40 years old rapping. So I'm going to shapen and move in a way so that every aspect of who I am can be seen." Queen Latifah does musicals, movies, voice overs for cartoons — is she a sellout or is she winning? So these other bitches that only did rap and now they're washed, and they're living in, you know, low-income housing — is that winning? Just so that a ***** in the street can give me a ****ing dap? The same ***** that didn't buy my album any ****ing way, that downloaded the ****? Get the **** out of here.
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I keep saying this: I went to school for theatre. I took four years of my life and devoted it to theatre. I did that because my passion was acting. When I started rapping, I felt like I couldn't really be myself. When I started winning, I started feeling that I can be myself. I can do my accents, I can do my voices, I can do my faces, I can do costumes. I can now bring me to who, you know, people see as Nicki Minaj. I can now really bring me into it. And I think that's where the confusion lies is that people thought that when I first came out, that that was me in my entirety. But that wasn't. That was a small facet of who I was, you know. But, who you see now is a more multi-faceted mixture of all the different personalities that I have in me. I mean... and I think that if I was to not show that, then I wouldn't be doing justice to all the people who feel like I do. Cause for every person who doesn't understand it is a person who feels like me, who feels like... sometimes I just break out in an English accent, you know, like, what's wrong with that?
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