While hitting the press circuit in support of her new album The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj has repeatedly mentioned the lack of respect she gets in the industry as a woman and how she is always having to prove herself despite her success and her status as the queen of mainstream hip-hop. In a new interview with Rap Radar's Elliott Wilson for is CRWN interview series, Minaj brought up the fact that no one took her crazy voices seriously, but they respect it when Kendrick Lamar does them.
"You said that you didn't get the voices before, but liked them on here: why? Because you listened. Because you listened. Because people you respected were on the track, and that's fine, I understand that," she said, according to a partial transcript of the interview. "I got a call from Mister Cee after he heard 'Bottoms Up,' and he said he had to give me my props. 'Bottoms Up' was very animated, but he took the time to listen, you know what I'm saying? It takes skill. And then I see people doing it now. Sometimes, when I hear the animated things that Kendrick Lamar does...I respect and like him, but when I paid attention to certain things he does, I think to myself: 'I did that.'"
It doesn't appear that she is trying to start any beef with the Compton rapper or saying that he stole her style, but rather that she wants to be given equal respect as an artist.
Twitter would have you thinking differently, though. Check out what people were saying after her she made those comments.
The Pinkprint is out now on YMCMB. Lamar's new album is expected to drop soon.
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