[And Now I Wonder]

Nicki Minaj: 'I have bigger balls than the boys'

She has a body like Marilyn and a mouth like Eminem. No wonder Nicki Minaj is the hottest female rapper in the world. Interview by Simon Hattenstone

Nicki Minaj is having her photo taken. I've never seen anything quite like it – so incisive, dramatic and bossy. "No close-ups," the rapping pop star growls. Then she kittens up to the camera, pouts, thrusts, threatens, giggles and pleads. Each pose lasts a split second. Blink and you miss it. Miss it, tough luck. The photographer looks shell-shocked. He's got more, and less, than he bargained for. "I think that's enough, thank you," she says. She walks over to him, wiggling her astonishing cartoon bottom like a rudder. "Let me see what it looks like," she says. "OK, that's enough."

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For years, Minaj rapped for the stars – she had bit parts on hits by Ludacris, Lil Wayne, who mentored her, and perhaps most famously Kanye West, for whom she contributed a brilliantly grotesque solo on Monster. In 2010, she featured on seven singles in the US charts – a record. Now she's on the verge of being ridiculously famous in her own right – and in the most unlikely manner. Minaj has just released her second solo album, and it has topped the US and UK charts. She has 11 million Twitter fans. Or rather, she did have before she decided on the spur of the moment to quit Twitter last week because a fan had leaked her songs. Typical Minaj. She says she might return, and presumes her fans will wait for her – she might be back by the time you're reading this.

Astonishingly, Minaj, best known for down and dirty raps that outfilth the boys, has found a new niche audience – little girls who still play with Barbies and wear long pink dresses in homage to her. She even calls her girl fans Barbs. She is now probably best known for a performance of Super Bass on the Ellen show, which she gave with eight-year-old fan Sophia Grace Brownlee, backed by her five-year-old cousin Rosie – it's been viewed on YouTube more than 38m times. In the song, a tribute to "a hell of a guy" who sells coke, and a warning to the ladies who might have their eye on him, Minaj raps: "When he give me that look/Then the panties comin' off, unh." On the Ellen show, the girls sing a cleaned-up version, but it is still disarming: a collision of two very different worlds.

Was she always determined to out-brag and out-curse the boys? "Yes, definitely. That's why I say stuff like, 'Dick in your face', because I don't even wanna refer to female genitalia any more." Why not? "I just feel I have bigger balls than the boys."

Has she always felt like that?

"Yes."

"Is that the persona or you?" I ask.

"No, that's definitely me."

"Is that because you don't think boys have big balls, or because you have huge ones?"

"I just have huge ones."

"Can anybody compete on the balls front?"

"Yeah – Madonna."

"Who'd win in a balls-off with Madonna?"

"Me, definitely."

[Callisto.]

She has a body like Marilyn

[BLaCKPoWeR]

[feuxtography]

She has a body like Marilyn

*Manson

[i spit on haters]

Just

[Haven17]

Originally posted by feuxtography

*Manson

[Abnormal]

Which is why you made generic dance music instead of sticking to rap and actually creating something amazing and revolutionary.

[Calypso]

Originally posted by feuxtography

*Manson

aghjadk

[ALA]

Originally posted by iBeyoncé.

ugh, he's so gorgeous.

Yet another Nicki slaughter fest to come. Ya'll really are getting on her.

[csybeyking]

Originally posted by feuxtography

*Manson

My God! My life! Its...gone!

[Extra Espresso]

Is the delusion supposed to be cool? Like...I don't even remotely stan for Madonna...but...

1) Original AL video clearly depicting Bush, confronting the war head-on during 'freedom fries' hysteria

2) Sex book released while the AIDS crisis was exponentially growing worse

And that's just the tip of the iceberg...

Maybe not now, but at her prime? Not even worth questioning...

All you've got is a beaded red bed-sheet masquerading as a nun's outfit?

Bitch take a whole damn ****ing ROW of seats.

[KMKinCB]

Is she talking literally or ...

[Nicole]

For someone with such big balls she sure likes to take the safe, easy path to success.

[RobynYoBank]

well, she has a bigger ass

[Shaliydah88]

Are her balls as fake as her ass?

[Vin]

If she keeps this up, she's going to talk her way right
out of a career, if she doesn't have another meltdown first.



...Vin

[MonsterNavy]

Originally posted by feuxtography

*Manson

Jesus christ

[zach]

Madonna isnt going to like this Nicki...

[apple]

Originally posted by Shaliydah88

Are her balls as fake as her ass?

[Husky]

They seriously compared Nicki to Marilyn Monroe, someone who was considered the epitome of female beauty, and Eminem, one of the most greatest rap artists of all time?

Pah.