I started making it my business to say things that would empower women, like, ‘Where my bad bitches at?’ to let them know, ‘I’m here for you. Then, when I started going to the shows and it was nothing but girls, it was like, ‘Did I go too far with embracing my girls?’ Because now they want to kiss and hug me. … Normally, [upcoming tour partner Lil] Wayne probably wouldn’t have gay guys coming to see his shows much, but they’re definitely a big part of my movement, and I hope they’d still come out and see me. I think that will be really, really interesting, just to start bridging that gap. We’ll see.
—Nicki Minaj, one of the only decent things from this year’s MTV VMAs, on how she ended up bridging gays and the rap world [via]
Rick Brannon
She pretty much rocks.
vitaminE
Love Nicki Minaj. She is so hot right now and come november when her album comes out she is going to be HUGE.
Yet Another
She definitely has gay fans. I don’t count myself one of them tho. But I respect her success. Meanwhile, she hasn’t done anything more profound for gays than some other hip-hop artists. I guess because it’s seen as so homophobic, anyone that doesn’t use fag repeatedly is “bridging a gap.”
Meanwhile, “Bad Bitches” is no more empowering to women than “Real Niggas” is to african-americans.
biguy
Wow she is hot, love that hair
Black Pegasus
Please wake me when this gimmicky bitch’s 15 minutes is up!
Lil Kim will always be the Queen Bee!
lol
t money
poor pegasus, you are stuck in ’96! lil kim has been done and over with for a long time now.
its time to embrace the new face of hip hop. its ok. nikki will do things that no other women has done. lets be happy for her.
PS, color me badd are also over and done with. (gasp!)
Queer Supremacist
@t money: What about Salt N Pepa? Aren’t they still relevant?
jason
Oh, fuck off, Minaj. You’re a product of the sleazy straight guys who run the record companies these days. A black cunt who claimed to be bisexual – just like Lady Gaga – so as to appear “hip” and “trendy”. No such hipness or trendiness is allowed for bisexual guys in the recording industry, which kind of proves my point that this is all a charade.
Both you, Minaj, and Lady Gaga can fuck off.
helen
@jason: you must no nothing about nicki been saying gay stuff since her first mixtapr in 07 way before she was signed by a record commpany if anything she toned down the gayness i rember back in o7 when she had a verse and was like” pussy real good it taste like mango “
helen
@jason: you must no nothing about nicki been saying gay stuff since her first mixtapr in 07 way before she was signed by a record commpany if anything she toned down the gayness i rember back in o7 when she had a verse and was like” pussy real good it taste like mango “,,again i dont know about gaga but nicki was always like that
DMWN
@jason: Why don’t you fuck off first, Jason? No one here likes you — except for your dozen different aliases, and I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them hated you too.
Head case.
jason
Nicki Minaj is a living turd who trades on the sleazy straight guy fantasy for girl-girl action. She is a brain-dead buffoon of the first order whose contribution to music consists of bowel movements, not gay rights movements.
By the way, have you noticed how these media lesbians like to talk of their love for “the gays”. My, my, how quaint. Notice how they never talk about male bisexuals, only “the gays”. Their understanding of male sexuality is limited to exploiting the purchasing power of frazzled club queens whose peripheral vision extends no further than an ecstasy pill.
afrolez
She is so a faker one day she said she is part of the lgbt movement, then the other day she does not want no part . all it is the language of money .
p.s. she sound like a cat being skinned
Mike D
As a Hip Hop head for life – from it’s beginnings in the Boogey Down Bronx and Queensbridge, I can firmly say that Niki Minag is garbage. From her own lips: “Did I go too far with embracing my girls?’ Because now they want to kiss and hug me. …” Does that sound like a ‘gay icon’? Are we as gays so needy of misogynistic ‘street cred’ that we’ll embrace any ‘fierce’ chick that says: ‘Where my bad bitches at?’ Why haven’t you embraced MC Lyte, the Brat, or Missy Elliot? Oh, wait – I know – they aren’t in the spotlight everyday showing their plastically enhanced ‘cakes’ and sprouting nonsense rap that references Scooby Doo (listen to one of her ‘hits’ and you’ll know what I’m talking about…)
To quote Jason and Afrolez simultaneously: ‘Nicki Minaj is a living turd who trades on the sleazy straight guy fantasy for girl-girl action. She is so a faker one day she said she is part of the lgbt movement, then the other day she does not want no part . all it is the language of money .’ Exactly.
There you go again Queerty – baiting the gays to latch on to an accidental ‘icon’
Jacob
Lil Kim is the Queen Of Rap. nicki is just a CLONE