Nicki Minaj may have pushed the release of her third album The Pinkprint back to Dec. 15, but that isn’t slowing up YMCMB’s First Lady, one bit.
The Head Barbz In Charge strikes a flawless pose while on the cover of Billboard magazine, wearing a gold-plated body suit with minimal jewlery, she tones down the make up bearing a natural face accented by jet black pronounced bangs to showcase her striking features.
In the magazine, Nicki–who has now scored her 56th hit on The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with her Lil Wayne and Drake assisted single “Only”–discusses what it takes to be a woman at the top of her game.
Check out some of the highlights below:
She’s Just As Smart As She Is Beautiful:
“I’m on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them,” Minaj tells Billboard. “Sometimes as women in the industry — if you’re sexy or like doing sexy things — some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you’re stupid.”
She Makes Her Dreams A Reality
“I was just a little kid in Southside Jamaica, Queens, hoping one day I would have my own perfume,” Minaj tells Billboard of those days when fame was a very distant possibility. “And now I have three.”
Don’t Think You Can Play Her
“Once I did American Idol, a lot of people would come up to me and say, ‘Oh, you’re smarter than I thought,’ ” she says. “What does that mean?!”