Nicki Minaj thinks social media forces “false realities” upon younger folks
Nicki Minaj has shared her considerations about social media’s impact on younger folks and the “false realities” it initiatives.
The Queens rapper has been selling her upcoming fifth album ‘Pink Friday 2’ forward of its launch subsequent month. Masking the December concern of Vogue, she revealed that she desires her to make use of her platform to speak about psychological sickness and drug dependancy – having lately revealed she was hooked on prescribed Percocet treatment.
“It’s gotten really easy to be alone bodily, the place younger folks spend 12, 16 hours a day of their rooms on their telephones, taking a look at these false realities, evaluating themselves. I’ve seen artists gone method too quickly,” she mentioned, referring to her friendships with Juice WRLD, Pop Smoke and others who died of their early 20s. “I ponder if that might have been averted in the event that they’d simply had the prospect to speak about what they have been going via.”
In 2020, the Grammy Award nominee got here below fireplace for sharing her beliefs on the COVID-19 vaccine. She additionally tweeted a voice word from a household good friend describing the unwanted effects they allegedly skilled after receiving the vaccine. The tweet went viral and acquired backlash from former UK Well being Minister Chris Witty, the Philadelphia Well being Division and the Well being Minister of Trinidad & Tobago. Minaj’s X/Twitter account was ultimately suspended for “spreading misinformation on the COVID-19 vaccine.”
“I’m a kind of individuals who doesn’t go along with a crowd,” she mentioned, explaining why she posted what she did. “I wish to make my very own evaluation of all the things with out assist from everybody.”
She continued: “Each time I discuss politics, folks get mad. I’m sorry, however I’m not going to be advised who I ought to get on social media and marketing campaign for. There’s lots we don’t know that’s occurring within the authorities, and I don’t suppose it adjustments whether or not you lean to the left or proper.”
‘Pink Friday 2’ serves because the sequel to Nicki Minaj’s 2010 debut album, ‘Pink Friday’. Within the new interview, she mirrored on her emotions earlier than releasing the album. “There’s nothing extra sophisticated than not understanding when you’re going to be broke, not understanding when you’re going to be a failure,” mentioned Minaj.
Describing her upcoming album, the rapper mentioned: “Think about a Nicki Minaj best hits album, however all of the songs are new. Once I look again at lots of my music, I’m like, Oh, my God, the place was the me in it? So for this album, I went again to the previous sport plan.”
‘Pink Friday 2’ will likely be out on December 8 – Nicki Minaj’s birthday – by way of her personal file label, Heavy On It Information.
Minaj dropped two singles final month; ‘Bahm Bahm’ and ‘FOR ALL THE BARBZ’ – the latter that includes Drake and Chief Keef. In the meantime, she picked up the Finest Hip-Hop award for the music video for ‘Tremendous Freaky Woman’ at this yr’s MTV VMAs.