March 10, 2022
Nicki Minaj recently sat down with Joe Budden for an extensive interview as part of his Pull Up series. During the conversation, the self-proclaimed Black Barbie opened up about her career origins and remembered Lil Wayne teasing her about having a small butt. Those seemingly innocent comments had a lasting effect on the then-aspiring rapper, and Nicki eventually decided to butt injections to enhance her figure.
“Social media was just beginning when I started so I was a lot of people’s guinea pigs,” she says.” I was one of the first people to be shitted on on the internet. It wasn’t acceptable to have surgery at all or anything and at that time, I had never had surgery. I had ass shots, which, to this day, I realize even with me not consulting with anyone to do something like that, how insane that was.
“And actually what happened was I kept on being around [Lil] Wayne and them. At that time, you know Wayne, he’s always talking about big booties. Wayne would have a new chick in the studio every session. So they were his muses but I just was around them all the time and I was like the little sister. This is what you’re supposed to look like in the rap culture and I don’t look like that.”
While Nicki initially claimed Wayne never actually said that, she wound up confessing, “No, no. I’m lying. I think Wayne, I think they said stuff sometimes jokingly but to a young girl or up-and-coming rapper or anything like that, when it’s from someone like Lil Wayne, it matters. Even if they’re joking, they don’t know that the person that is there in that room with them is not finding it funny.”