The Life of Nicki Minaj

Barbie. Chun-Li. Onika. Whatever her persona, she's a rap superstar. This is the story of Nicki Minaj.

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00:00It takes balls to be able to lose and to fail and to make mistakes in the public eye

00:30How do you get your life more like Nicki Minaj?

00:39Work hard.

00:40If you want to do what I do, I work very, very hard.

00:43Stay in school.

00:44Don't drop out.

01:00If this is like every little girl's dream come true, I mean, I never imagined that I

01:20would be doing a show in the middle of Times Square and these people would be singing every

01:25My first album I had Eminem, Kanye West, Rihanna, Lil Wayne, Will.i.am, who does that on their

01:39first album?

01:40No one.

01:41People are like expecting me now to get, you know, the Lord's Savior.

01:54I think it's like a billion times better than my first album and it's just because I'm more

01:57confident and you know, I didn't really, I just went for it.

02:01I didn't change stuff, I didn't, you know, go crazy and redo my verses a billion times.

02:06I was just like, you know what, this is who I am right now, take it or leave it.

02:09I want to thank everyone, the people in the world, my fans, for allowing me the opportunity

02:14to make all types of music and be accepted by different radio stations and genres and

02:22colors and everybody across the rainbow because it's kind of like a big deal.

02:26I wanted to create something that my fans can wear and feel like it was a representation

02:40of me even if they couldn't afford super, super high, high fashion and when Kmart came

02:47to me with this idea, I mean, at first I thought, oh, I don't know, you know, it's Kmart and

02:52then I figured, well, you know what, what if I can do something that takes Kmart to

02:56another level in terms of how people view Kmart.

02:59Whatever you do here, keep on doing it, keep on killing it and, you know, thank God, thank

03:28God for health and strength, you guys, we're alive today, we need to just be happy for that.