Nicki Minaj does Complex

Nicki Minaj strips herself of the crazy hair and make up for these nice pics. Nicki Minaj is still a human cartoon but she looks nice. Peep the interview below:

Complex: Everyone has this image of you as a cartoon character with outlandish
wigs, but at our shoot today you were much more low-key.
Nicki Minaj:
[Laughs.] Every woman is a character—but people need to see I'm a regular human.
It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden. You're a
thing. Like today [the photographer] was like, "Where is that Nicki Minaj
smile?" But this shoot doesn't call for the Nicki Minaj smile. You guys wanted
me subdued, so I'm gonna give you a different side. I'm not gonna pull a string
and be like, "It's Barbie, bitch!"

There's been a lot of speculation
about your sexuality in the press. Your verse on Usher's "Lil' Freak" adds to
the buzz that you're bisexual.
Nicki Minaj: When I rap, it's just an
extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't
listen. I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap.
Take what you want from it. [In the press] I didn't say [I don't like women]. I
said I don't have sex with women. I don't have sex with men right now either. If
[bisexual is] what they wanna call me, then fine.

So right now Nicki
Minaj is celibate?
NM: Yes, and I encourage all my young Barbies to do the
same. I just don't have time.

You've said in recent interviews that you
want to tone down the sexual content in your music. What prompted that?
NM:
On "My Chick Bad," I had to show people that I can spit a verse without sex or
talking about how good I look. I'm actually timid when it comes to being overtly
sexy, which is weird because in the beginning people thought of me like some
freakin' porn star. Guys reference sex all the time in their raps—I can't even
think of a record where Wayne doesn't talk about sex—but when a female does it,
people start tuning out. Then this gay dude the other day told me, "I say to
dudes, ‘Maybe it's time to put this pussy on your sideburns.'" I was crying
laughing and I was like, "I can't take this shit out of my act." People live for
that shit. [Laughs.] I just have to balance it a little bit.

Where do
all your different voices come from?
NM: I have no idea. I think Wayne kind
of influenced that. He has always been really carefree when he raps and I was
like, "I don't have to stay in one cadence or stay in one tone when I rap—I can
just do what I want."

But you've been saying in recent interviews that
you might tone down the voices.
NM: Sometimes the shit I say is over
people's heads and I feel like I need to dumb it down a bit so people can
understand it. I think if I had said a lot of raps in a particular voice, people
would go, "Yo, that shit was hard"—but when you change up your voice a little
bit, they can't see past that. And they're lookin' at me like, "This bitch is
stupid"—and I'm lookin' at them like, "No, bitch, you're stupid." [Laughs.]

So on your album and going forward, you're going to mellow out on the
voices?
NM: I definitely made a conscious effort to tone the voices down a
little bit.

Did the label or management talk to you about it at all?
NM: Again, I run my empire. Does that answer your question? No one tells me
anything unless I ask their opinion. No one can make a decision for you. Not if
you're the boss.

How hard has it been not to respond when people take
shots?
NM: It's not hard when you're making a lot of money and everything
you do is sold out, and people adore you and little kids are crying just to take
a picture with you. I'm laughing all the way to the bank, just like Wayne said.
Young Money is good.

Speaking of Young Money, did your labelmate Drake
tell you he'd be mentioning wanting to marry you on his verse for "Miss Me"
before you heard it?
NM: He told me he said something about me on a verse,
but I didn't think it would be anything like that. He let me hear it for the
first time when we did Jay's show at Madison Square Garden, the day before Wayne
had to go to jail—that night he let me hear it on the headphones. But you know
what else he told me he wrote for me? The Alicia Keys song "I'm Ready." I happen
to love the song. I never told anyone that, I hope he won't get mad that I said
that. (theybf)