Nicki Minaj's Massive Attack on the Scene of Hip-Hop [NEW PHOTOS]
Onika Maraj, also known as the infamous Harajuku Barbie/Nicki Minaj, is leaving her 4-inch-heel footprint on the runway of hip-hop. Recently featured in Paper Magazine, she goes on to explain the birth of her style and how she made it thus far. She mentions that her syllabic accents, voices, and characters erupted in an unusual way - by mistake. Minaj says,
"It happened like a lot of things I do - as a mistake. Like the freegin' clip in my hair in the 'My Chick Bad' video with Ludacris. My hairdresser was curling one side and using a clip to hold my hair. I was like, 'Leave it.' They all looked at me like I was insane -- but that's something I do. It's the same thing with my cadences: I'm probably running out of breath or something crazy, and it's like, 'This is not going to work.' But then I'm like, 'Let me listen,' and it winds up being magical and I just keep it and I'm like, 'Yeah, I love it.'"
Her fashion sense is even more out-of-the-box. Not only has she developed her music style, but her choice of clothing as well. The New York Times titled her "the Cindy Sherman of rap," after all. Minaj says, "it's more than a pose though - it's fashion as a pillar of hip-hop. My style is hip-hop meets couture meets crazed lunatic...um yeah." It's pretty self explanatory.
Pink Friday, her upcoming album set to release in November, is her 'heart and soul.' Every relationship that she has ever been in will come through the core of this album, she explains.
"I'm going to be in Tokyo, Paris--I'm going to go everywhere you can imagine. I'm going to own London. I mean, the sky's the limit and you watch what I say. I refuse to lose. I don't know how to lose."
Jacket by Rami Kashou, pants by Andy & Debb, gloves by Gasper and ring by Stephen Webster.
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