Nicki Minaj Covers BILLBOARD Mag + Keri Hilson Rates Hip-Hop's Leading Men

Nicki Minaj covers the latest issue of BILLBOARD Magazine and inside she talks about her last job,  her work ethic and her album Pink Friday.  Get the deets inside plus find out how Keri Hilson rates the leading men of Hip-Hop inside...


Nicki recently sat for an interview with BILLBOARD Magazine to promote PINK FRIDAY dropping on November 22.
On her last job:

 "The last job I had was as an office manager in a little, tiny room where I literally wanted to strangle this guy because he was so loud and obnoxious," Minaj recalls. "I would go home with stress pains in my neck and my back. That's when I went to my mother and said, 'Look, I'm not going back to work.' I'd been fired like 15 times because I had a horrible attitude. I worked at Red Lobster before that and I chased a customer out of the restaurant once so I could stick my middle finger up at her and demand that she give me my pen back. I swear to God I was bad."

On being a NY rapper:

"When I started rapping, people were trying to make me like the typical New York rapper, but I'm not that," Minaj says. "No disrespect to New York rappers, but I don't want people to hear me and know exactly where I'm from. I wanted the album to be universal and versatile. It really feels like it speaks for every one of my personalities."

On getting respect in a male-dominated field:

"When I do songs like 'Monster,' when I'm on a record with Jay-Z and Kanye West, when I'm on a record with Wayne and Em -- I definitely think the dudes give me respect," Minaj says. "They haven't come easy but I think people are starting to give me more props."

On "Your Love":

Although first official single "Your Love" reached No. 4 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the track wasn't even meant to be released.

"I didn't like the song and I didn't put it out," she says. "Someone stole it out of the studio and put it on the Internet and I cried because I was mortified. I was humiliated and remember telling Drake, 'This is going to ruin my career.' "

On her work ethic:

"I push people around me but I don't push anyone more than I push myself," she says. "I tell people all the time, 'You want to work for me? You have to give 250,000%,' because when I'm in the booth, I don't half-ass it. I demand perfection from everyone around me and if you can't live up to that, then bye-bye."

During a recent interview with HOT 97 in NYC, Keri Hilson was asked to rate today's leading men of Hip Hop.  Here's what she said:

"Trey [Songz], 1 to 10, I'm thinking, I want to be fair," Hilson told Funkmaster Flex. "I like Trey, he looks good, sex appeal, on point, give him like, a seven. That's a good number for girls...I might give him a seven, eight. I like Trey, he's creeping on up -- J. Cole, he's talented --are all these guys on here high yellow because I like chocolate. He's not my type. He's tall, give him like a five, six. Usher is definitely up there. I would give Usher like a nine. I'm thinking...Kanye [West], the creativity puts him so far up, is he taller than me? I think a lot of girls would rate him pretty high. I would give him a nine.
John Legend, he seems like a man -- I would give John Legend a seven. 50 [Cent], not my type. I'm gonna start off with he's not my type. He's a five. My type is chocolate, tall, some sort of athleticism. Drake, high yellow one. He's very sensitive. It's hard to rate him, I think I might hurt his feelings if I say something about...That's why ladies 'eff' with him so much. He seems very in touch with himself -- one to ten, probably a six. Lil Wayne, I love Wayne, he's very creative. He does have a lot of kids -- I don't know if I could deal with that. It seems like one big happy family, he's such a rock star...Wayne is up there. He's like a seven."

Well those are some interesting ratings....
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