Nicki Minaj, who posed on the cover of Marie Claire for their latest November issue, touched on women’s goals and competing with big-time male rappers by explaining that she can most definitely create a career and empire for herself, just like any of the big boys.
According to her “I don’t need to read a book about [business]. I can look at someone’s career and just pinpoint the dos and the don’t s, and the one person I’ve done that with for my entire career was Jay Z“.
“He did such a great job being an authentic street guy and a businessman, and I was like, Why aren’t there women doing that, taking the success from rap and channeling it into their empire? I felt like anything he could do, I could do.”
According to E! Online, Minaj touched on the fact that many women seem to marry into money these days instead of creating a fortune for themselves, which she finds worrisome.
“Nowadays, I feel like [young women] see marrying into money—I think that’s a big thing now. I don’t want that to be a woman’s goal in life,” she states.
“I want your goal in life to be to become an entrepreneur, a rich woman, a career-driven woman. You have to be able to know that you need no man on this planet at all, period, and he should feel that, because when a man feels that you need him, he acts differently.”