Nicki Minaj speaks on her “Monster” collaboration, envious female rappers & fear of failure in YRB Magazine.

Nicki Minaj speaks on her “Monster” collaboration, envious female rappers & fear of failure in YRB Magazine.  Check out a few excerpts and the full spread below:

On “Monster” Being The Pivotal Moment In Her Career
That has to be the breakout Nicki Minaj moment. That was my moment “People paid attention because of who was on it and because I held my own and I stayed true to my crazy animation, and it’s like I didn’t have to take my fun stuff out. I was able to incorporate Nicki Minaj on a record with Jay-Z and Kanye West. And I think people know that’s a difficult task in itself.”

On Female Rappers Who Don’t Support Her
These girls aren’t mad at me. They’re mad at themselves,” she states, shooting down questions on why she never took Kim’s bait. “[It’s] jealousy, insecurity and being broke. When you haven’t capitalized and you see I’m about to capitalize on this sh*t like it’s never been done before, then you’re mad at yourself.

On being afraid to release her album
I was so afraid to put out an album for fear of failure. I wanted to put my album out on Valentine’s Day of 2011. And my label was like, are you f*cking crazy?”

On Pink Friday
I know that Pink Friday is a classic album. I have never been this proud of anything in my life,” she says. “I just think that it’s such a dynamic body of work. I’m no longer afraid to drop it. Now, I know it’s time.

Check out the full interview over at YRB 

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Nicki Minaj Taking Shots At Lil Kim In New Track “Roman’s Revenge” Featuring Eminem (Hot or Not)

Here it is folks, the highly anticipated collaboration between alter egos Roman Zolanski and Slim Shady.

Nicki Minaj and Eminem trade verses over a Swizz Beats produced track that will appear on Nicki’s ‘Pink Friday’ album that drops November 22.

Nick-elodeon Cannon wants to see Eminem in the ring……are you serious??

Nick Cannon wants to lace up the gloves with your boy Eminem:

They’ve been throwing insults back and forth at each other for awhile now, and Nick Cannon has finally challenged Eminem to a fight.

The “America’s Got Talent” host made an official challenge to the “Love the Way You Lie” rapper to get into the boxing ring- and he’s doing it for charity.

Taking to his website, Cannon wrote, “The time has come! Boys talk the talk, but men walk the walk. Nick has laid down the challenge to meet Eminem in the ring.”

“Nick and the rest of the crew on Rollin’ With Nick Cannon think it’s time for the feud to be over once and for all. And to draw Slim Shady out of hiding, Nick has decided to do it all for charity.”

As of yet, there’s no response from Eminem’s camp, though it will likely escalate from here.

Double Platinum

While most music artist never get to say their album reached platinum status, Eminem’s latest album titled “Recovery” has just went double platinum (2,113,000 records sold) in a little over two months. In this day in age its really hard for artist to even go gold. But big-ups to Eminem congrats on all your success, hard work and dedication does pay off and you definitely proved that on this album.