Watch the trailer for Nicki Minaj’s upcoming docuseries ‘Nicki’

Nicki Minaj has shared the primary trailer for her eponymous docuseries Nicki, a six-part occasion that may chronicle the rapper’s meteoric rise to stardom within the 2010s.

The trailer includes a litany of notable quotes from Minaj, opening with the declaration that “you don’t get a handbook on the best way to be a well-known rapper – you simply study it as you go”. Reflecting on her roots as an up-and-coming rapper within the mid-2000s, she continues: “I believe the girl [I was] again then, she wasn’t afraid to fail. Feminine rappers weren’t actually charting on the time… I’m combating for the ladies who by no means thought they might win.”

We additionally study that Minaj by no means sought out the highlight, as she says of her preliminary ambitions: “I by no means needed to be mainstream – mainstream got here to be.” However an equally massive focus within the six-part Nicki collection appears to be the struggles that Minaj has confronted as a lady within the hip-hop scene, with the rapper noting that she “merely [doesn’t] get the respect that males do”.

“This business is simply not a loving [or] supportive place,” Minaj says later within the trailer. “It pretends generally, nevertheless it’s simply not.” She went on to deal with her drug use as a coping mechanism, saying that she “might medicate myself and inform myself it’s okay, however when the excessive comes down, you’re nonetheless there”, and famous that after taking a break from music after 2018’s ‘Queen’, she “turned the strongest I’ve ever been in my life”.

It additionally appears as if the collection will contact on the making of Minaj’s upcoming fifth album, because the trailer ends with the rapper saying: “I’ve to make music to be able to keep sane”.

Try the primary trailer for Nicki under:

Coming SOON!!!! The #NickiDocumentary you didn’t know you wanted. Love you a lot. 😘🫶🏽🎀💕🦄 pic.twitter.com/KbOY5fPU0s

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) July 28, 2022

A premiere date for Nicki is but to be revealed, nonetheless it’s been confirmed that the collection will stream on HBO Max earlier than the top of the yr.

The trailer launch comes forward of Minaj’s subsequent single, ‘Freaky Lady’, which is about to drop on Thursday August 11. That’ll be her fifth launch for the yr, following the Lil Child joints ‘Do We Have A Drawback?’ and ‘Bussin’, ‘Blick Blick’ with Coi Leray and ‘We Go Up’ with Fivio International.

Earlier this month, Minaj tried to host a meet and greet with followers in North London, nonetheless it was promptly cancelled by native police as a consequence of “overcrowding”.

It got here after her look at this yr’s Wi-fi Competition, and noticed lots of of followers collect outdoors Cafe KOKO – connected to the newly refurbished KOKO theatre – within the midst of a heatwave. The rapper was delayed and reportedly didn’t arrive till nearly 6pm, by which era the crowds had been so heavy that Minaj was flanked by police to be able to enter the venue.

This coming Monday (August 1), Minaj will carry out on the third present of Drake‘s ‘October World Weekend’ live performance collection, showing alongside Lil Wayne to ship a “Younger Cash reunion” in Toronto. Shortly after tickets for the present went on sale, followers took to social media to complain about their outlandish costs.

Additionally this month, Minaj responded to rumours that she’s anticipating her second baby, and appeared to diss Kanye West on the Essence Music Competition in New Orleans. Her set on the pageant marked her first reside efficiency in round three years, and featured a medley of her early visitor verses. When her verse from West’s 2010 single ‘Monster’ was queued up, nonetheless, Nicki lower it quick.

In response to West’s ex-girlfriend, Amber Rose, the rapper thought Minaj “killed him” on her ‘Monster’ verse. In a current interview, Rose mentioned: “He didn’t know who Nicki was again then. I had Nicki pull as much as the studio and I put her on ‘Monster.’ She was nonetheless arising and I noticed her within the studio and I used to be like, ‘Oh my god this bitch is fucking gifted as hell.’

Rose claimed West needed Minaj’s verse to be faraway from the tune at one level, as a result of it was too good. She added: “He mentioned, ‘How the fuck did you usher in a bitch that killed me alone tune?’”