I Wanted To Like Nicki Minaj's Sit Down With Joe Budden But I Didn't...Welp

I Failed Nicki's Intelligent Black Woman Test

OVERALL THOUGHTS OF THE INTERVIEW

Nicki Minaj's sit-down "interview" with Joe Budden further exposed how closed off of a person Nicki Minaj has truly become. The fun-loving, cocky female rapper from Queens, who once said in an interview that her most valuable asset is her tongue, came across as tongue-tied when it came to opening up and offering any honest insight into who she is as an artist and woman today.

Instead, we got a boring PR-driven show with Nicki Minaj looking like a shell of herself and utterly

Nicki Minaj Bored With This Interview Too

defeated, as Joe Budden was relegated to being a prop on his own show. Nicki, who fully controlled that interview, stayed in her comfort zone of offering long-winded commentary on other rappers, lecturing us on what is wrong with the culture and Hip Hop, and reminding us all how much she had been wronged. Oh, and we can't forget how she fed the blogs a headline by complimenting Lil Kim.

While this sit-down may have been good enough for those who STAN Nicki Minaj, to someone more familiar with Nicki Minaj and her industry issues, this was a bait and switch interview.

While Nicki Minaj offered insight into Yesterday's Nicki (body insecurities) and the olive branch to yesterday's beef (Lil Kim), we really got nothing about today's Nicki Minaj.

What about today's beefs? What about the blackballing? What about the lawsuit? What about anything that is actually affecting her career currently? I did not want to hear her whine about not being able to wear a pink wig on a magazine cover for which seemed like an hour with that Fran Drescher-ish voice. I did not want to watch her kissing Joe's ass just cause he said she deserves a Grammy. Joe has admitted he is a Grammy voter, who does not vote. So, he wants people to do for Nicki what he is not willing to do for her; which is vote🥴

I WISH NICKI WOULD STOP NEEDING THE APPROVAL OF MEN!

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NEVERENDING BEEFS

While Nicki's olive branch to Lil Kim will play well with the Essence Fest crowd, there are a group of people who don't give a damn if she and Kim ever made up, me included.

Nicki should have taken time to squash any rumors that she has beef with Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat. I don't care if Nicki really doesn't like them. She does not have to follow them or do a song with them. But, just start the new era where the focus is not on who she doesn't like or could be diss'n. That is Queen-era shit and that did not work out in her favor.

Also, we all remember how Joe quickly rushed out to tell everyone that Nicki did not like Megan, so it was the perfect platform to show you only got beef with being broke.

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MOGUL BARBIE

I have long said that Nicki Minaj should avoid doing the label thing and just do the ROC Nation management thing. So, when I heard she was going in that direction, I was intrigued. However, one thing I noticed about Nicki is she is not a good saleswoman. She did not seem excited to talk about it. She acted as if she was just over listening to professional managers and also wanted to save money, so she decided to start a management company, LOL.

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Video Courtesy of Joe Budden Network

THE WORD IS "BLACKBALLING"

This is one of the reasons why I refuse to talk about Nicki Minaj and the blackballing. Not only is it OVER, but she won't even say the word. I don't know if it is because she is sitting and making money with one of the MEN who participated in taking her out, but this is pitiful. When talking about the release of her Queen album, she said, "I don't think I even presented myself correctly in terms of what I was saying and how I am saying it."

You can't constantly go around and try downing the girls with talks of payola and dick sucking, but when it comes to exposing the industry, you get amnesia. This is why I suspect Nicki took a deal to leave the men alone, but she can go at the girls cause female rap beef makes money.

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