Tue 10 Apr 2012
Nicki Minaj on Lady Gaga Comparisons: “We Are In Completely Different Lanes”
Posted by Mr.North under interview , quotes , television[11] Comments
Nicki Minaj made a recent appearance on ABC’s Nightline for a one-on-one conversation with JuJu Chang. During their talk, Nicki touched on balancing her music content when it comes to her much younger audience, her wardrobe malfunction on Good Morning America last year, and living with an abusive father growing up in Queens, New York. The Queen of Young Money also took the opportunity to speak out on the constant comparisons to Lady Gaga, and the most important lesson she learned while working with Madonna.
Watch Nicki’s full interview on ABC’s Nightline after the jump…..
Thanks to Yardie/MrWorldPremiere
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April 10th, 2012 at 1:10 am
Nicki took from Gaga, who took from Madonna, who took from Marilyn. Why deny it?
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Angry Gillmore Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Lady Gaga = calls her fans Munsters. Nikki=calls her fans barbies . I wont even touch on how she used religious under tones in her music and keep going with the references.
If those are two different lanes I guess it makes imagery theft a intersection?
Agreed@hasim using Madonna as the original prototype
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skye Reply:
April 16th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
thhnkk yu these lil ho’s dumb l o l im sickk of it like hop off nicki and move onnn leave her TF alont she juss wanna be chill man she dnt want any problems just leave her TF alone.. smh #TeamMinaj
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April 15th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Uh, Madonna didn’t take from Mayrlin.
She took from Grace Jones, who Gaga took directly from..
Another media buried truth of black influence on music.
Go head, look up Grace Jones is 100% Gaga then some of Madonna.
SMH
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April 10th, 2012 at 1:11 am
what about the lil kim comparisons ?
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April 10th, 2012 at 1:19 am
I love this interview, she was dearly sincere
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April 10th, 2012 at 1:40 am
more of that McDonalds journalism. ABC News asks a valid question “why are u like Gaga”, Minaj just says “no we aren’t”, and the ABC News is like ‘aight’. lmao. No investigation, no real forethought.
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April 10th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
I agree with nicki they are in differnt lanes. GAGA is on the lane to success Nicki is on the slow lane to terribleness.
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April 10th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Honestly Nicki… Come on. U a black gaga. Gaga definitely took from Madonna and Madonna was a Marilyn. Now Nicki featuring and performing with Madonna and talking about her love for Marilyn and how icon she is and bla bla bla.
Look I am not going to say Marilyn Monroe wasn’t influential or inspirational for a lot of women BUT I gotta say I feel some type of way that she doesn’t speak enough about great black women she looks up to.
Nicki needs to remember she has a major influence now, she has to be careful about whatever or whoever she talks about.
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April 10th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Wait….didn’t she just work with GaGa’s producer on a bunch of songs?
Nicki, can you please have many seats
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April 10th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
she’s pissed because its true and she doesn’t wanna admit she jacked Lady gagas whole marketing style, its so blatant its not funny she jacked lil kim/lady gaga/missy elliot
but as for her music yeh its different hers sucks more
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