Just after she covered L'Uomo Vogue’s October 2014 issue, Nicki Minaj is back with a new hot feature in GQ magazine. While she was looking like a rap diva in L’Uomo, playing up her inner male, Nicki’s all women this time around, sporting a white cow girl-inspired bra and form-fitting skirts.
Inside the Mag:
Nicki reveals how she carefully chooses the brands that she collaborates with in terms of endorsements and product placements in her videos. Without forgetting her infamous "Anaconda" video. While some may have thought the s3xy video was a little explicit, Nicki claims it was just a music video about power and control, hence why she was in the kitchen chopping a baa before grinding up on Drake.
On product placement in her videos:
"My management team has a division that has a guy that his main focus is to go out there and find new brands for me to do business with or to find brands that would like to be in our videos and contribute to our budget."
On the “Anaconda” video controversy and its message:
"I don’t know what there is to really talk about… I’m being serious. I just see the video as being a normal 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."
"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."
"[In the video] I’m chopping up the baa. Did you realize that? At first I’m being s3xual with the baa, and then it’s like, ‘Ha-ha, no.’? Yeah, that was important for us to show in the kitchen scene [before the Drake 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."