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Nicki Minaj has just promised the world a free mixtape. Six years after her last mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty, the Trinidadian-American rapper hopes to give inspiration for her future female competition.
Within an interview via Billboard, Minaj states the importance and impact of a mixtape on a career, and is looking to commit to her next one. "I’ll definitely drop a mixtape," she said. "I have to."
Although the rapper has yet to confirmany specific information such as featuring artists or tracks, she does explain the concept behind the mixtape. "I want to touch a couple of beats that I wasn’t on. I could have bodied a lot of the records that came out in the last year. But the main thing is, I have to set an example for female rappers. I’m at the top of that food chain, and it’s important to lead by example."
Minaj adds: "I want to make sure women do not forget the importance of that grind, that walk up to the top. You can’t get there with a song. Because once that song is no longer hot, you’re no longer hot. It’s important that you are bigger than your music. Some fans are going to f*ck with me for the rest of my life because they know where I came from. Fans know my struggle. How hungry I was. That I was not settling, I was not giving up. I was on everybody’s beat. I was ruthless."
The songwriter, who was also in the limelight earlier this year for her vocal bouts with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, has mentioned her boyfriend and fellow rapper Meek Mill is set to return with his brand new mixtape.
"Meek doesn’t let me hear his music. Right now, he’s about to put out a mixtape, and I haven’t heard it. We laugh about this all the time. Just yesterday I was like, 'Oh, am I going to get to come in and hear the secret music or not?' And he was like, 'Not yet. It’s not done.' But I respect it because I’m an artist. I’m like that too."
