Nicki Minaj is featured in GQ‘s November issue, in which the “cheeky genius” (oh) talks The Pinkprint and addresses the hoopla surrounding her raunchy “Anaconda” music video.
Via GQ:
“I don’t know what there is to really talk about,” Nicki Minaj tells GQ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner of her Anaconda video. “I’m being serious. I just see the video as being a normal video.” Minaj, who refuses to address the female form and message behind her hit, says there’s no hidden meaning, no layer beneath the song or video. “I think the video is about what girls do. Girls love being with other girls, and when you go back to us being younger, we would have slumber parties and we’d be dancing with our friends.” Minaj continues, “She”—Nicki’s character in the video—“is just talking about two guys that she dated in the past and what they’re good at and what they bought her and what they said to her. It’s just cheeky, like a funny story.” But, towards the end of the interview Minaj acknowledges that the video is also about power and control. “I’m chopping up the banana. Did you realize that? At first I’m being sexual with the banana, and then it’s like, ‘Ha-ha, no.’ ” When discussing how the Drake scene immediately follows the kitchen scene, she says, “Yeah, that was important for us to show in the kitchen scene, because it’s always about the female taking back the power, and if you want to be flirty and funny that’s fine, but always keeping the power and the control in everything.”
Ironically, the correspondent who had the pleasure of interviewing Minaj –– Taffy Brodesser-Akner –– was warned prior to the sit-down not to ask about the rapper’s ass, because she finds it “degrading.”
Really?
Read full story HERE. The November issue hits newsstands nationwide on Oct. 28. See more of The Barbz on the following page.
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Photos: Mark Seliger
