Nicki Minaj Explains What She Felt About Music Industry 'Double Standards'

Nicki Minaj has been in the music industry for over a decade.

Her humble beginnings in her mixtape era led to the birth of her debut album, "Pink Friday," and the eventual mammoth success of "Super Bass," which skyrocketed her to one of pop and hip-hop music's greatest artists of all time.

Minaj, 39, and now a mother to Papa Bear, has sat down with JT of City Girls and i-D Magazine to talk about her recent endeavors and upcoming projects as she ushers into a new era of her music.

Characterized popularly as a very outspoken artist, Nicki Minaj has gained quite a reputation for her controversial statements on social media. However, in the recent chat with ID, she explained the reason why she does such a thing.

"Well, there's a huge misconception with people who come across as outspoken. The misconception is that we're so strong. Just because a person fights back doesn't mean they're not afraid," she pointed out. "I have suppressed years' worth of things that I've wanted to say. People have lied about me, and I didn't respond. There's always been a level of fear there because this is a business."

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For Minaj, like any 9-5 office job out there, she treats her music as her job too. She succinctly elaborated how without speaking up, she could lose her job too, where she could not pay the bills like any other American worker.

But one thing she pointed out is the certain double standard that the public has placed her statements into.

"I see the hip-hop community praise so many other people for speaking up for themselves, but for some reason, they seem to have an issue when I do it. Once I realised that there's that double standard, I decided I don't give a shi-t anymore," Minaj admitted.

Very recently, Minaj received quite the flak online after reports of her record-breaking single "Super Freaky Girl," which is classified as a rap song, was removed by the rap committee of the Recording Academy from the rap categories to the pop ones.

Minaj, the outspoken gal she is, took to social media and voiced out her concerns, noting that if "SFG" was to be recategorized to pop, Latto's sonically similar song "Big Energy" should be moved too (BE remains on rap as per reports), prompting a fiery back and forth between the two rappers on social media.

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