Rob Markman: Where were you when you decided to do Barbie Dreams and where you thinking
... did you know like you know you touched this in '07?
Nicki Minaj: Yes.
Rob Markman: And a lot of people didn't know it but when did you decide you know what it's
time I'm going back in on this?
Nicki Minaj: It's been on my mind for a while and then I was dating someone right and I
said I asked him what he thought and I don't think he would of been too fond of it.
So being that we happen to break up I was able to slide that in there and I been putting
the bars together.
But one day, this is a true story but one day I was coming to the ... oh I see black
people moving that means food.
Whenever black people start when you start losing their attention ... but that's okay
Y'all I understand you guys are hungry you guys get food.
I'll be here talking don't worry.
But look so one day I just pulled up to the studio before I had my own little studio.
But I pulled up to the studio and Rob I'm not kidding I don't know but I was in a really
good mood and I just started free styling some stuff like the Uzi line.
And I was just making myself laugh.
And my assistant was in the front seat of the car and she was looking at me like what
is she doing and I was just ... but you guys be quiet a little bit.
Rob Markman: Yeah orderly be orderly.
Nicki Minaj: Because rob is going like this.
That means we got to.
Rob Markman: Because we're about to get to the good part we don't want to miss this.
Nicki Minaj: Yeah so now the thug line the Uzi line and the-
Rob Markman: He's stealing your dresses.
Nicki Minaj: And it was a couple of lines that came to me oh and the designer-
Rob Markman: Nick Nicki Minaj: Really I did not got to the studio
that day I was not going to that studio to do "Barbie Dreams."
I promise you.
I kept on having little lines like I was doing a voice note in my phone and all of a sudden
that day when I pull up to the studio it was a nice day and something just in my head had
a joke about one of the guys and I had the Fetty Wap line and I started crying and so
I said you know what fuck that, it just inspired me I was like no this shit is starting to
be funny.
So I said let me record it and then when I recorded it I did one verse first and when
my managers came in so G came to the studio- Rob Markman: Shout out G.
Nicki Minaj: Shout out to G Roberson.
Now you know G and I are like inseparable like so Gene came with him as well and I didn't
tell them that I did it because I had already told them naw I changed my mind I'm not gonna
do it but I laid it and I told them to come by the studio and I video taped their reaction
to hearing it and it is priceless.
I'm put that on the documentary.
So that you can see when they heard that I was really about to ... because they knew
... we knew it was gonna be game changing I kept on saying you know this is gonna change
the culture because I'm the only one that could do because it's so much history behind
it and it's just is dope that I did it in '07 you know my first mix tape.
And it feels like everything has came full circle with Queen and everything feels good
about it the making of Queen and the way it came out and everything so I wanted to get
people something that would make them excited like how they were when they first started
hearing me.
Rob Markman: And that's dope that AB did the listen to the old one and the new one.
If you compare the rappers that you talk about it really brings you back to a time when like
it was a lot of Dipset talk in the first one but being from New York of course and now
the new version is just so dope.
It's dope to listen to compared to where you were in '07 and where you are now with it.
Nicki Minaj: True story, I have not listened to the old version but because you said that
I want to go and listen to it.
Rob Markman: One question I want to know, two things, it wasn't a diss track it hurt
me when you had to tweet and explain that again I'm a hip hop head so I'm a spread some
knowledge.
Hip hop has a deep history of these type of tracks if you go back to Ice Cube Jacking
for Beats when he's talking about stealing beats from Public Enemy.
Those were his friends it was just a joke.
Biggie with "Just Playing."
50 Cent with "How to Rock."
This is hip hop history.
There is a lineage of these type of tracks and this is just another chapter in it.
But what I want to know is and as a guy you guys have a close relationship "Drake worth
100 milli always buying me shit but I don't know if the pussy wet or I'll be crying and shit."
Did he call you?
He had to have called you and be like, "God damn Nick?"
Nicki Minaj: No.
I did an interview that's gonna be out in a few hours on TRL they asked me the same thing.
No.
Rob Markman: Shout to my man Sway.
See Sway is my big bro.
He's my mentor so he asked the same questions.
Nicki Minaj: He's so dope.
Yeah you guys think alike.
But Drake hasn't called me.
Rob Markman: He might be loading one up though.
All right you want to have fun you want to play-
Nicki Minaj: He bout to have back-to-back?
Rob Markman: Y'all gonna leave Drake alone.
Nicki Minaj: No I thought that was a dope thing.
I thought it was a compliment.
It's funny.
He has a record called "In My Feelings" and so I thought he would like it.
I thought it would be funny to him.
Rob Markman: Nicki do you love me?
Listen, and it was also dope to me that you mentioned Meek. Are you guys cool enough now...
that you can joke about the relationship like were you worried about how people might take
that because what you and Meek had at a point was real.
Is it cool enough now that you we can joke about we cool?
Nicki Minaj: Well did you see anything happen from me saying it?
What?
Rob Markman: You know what I did see.
I wish I had the picture.
There was a meme of a picture of Meek somewhere was like Yo Gotti in the picture like 21 but
a bunch a people looking at him like yo you did what?
It had nothing to do with the lyric but- Nicki Minaj: It was like you still be in her
dms?
Rob Markman: Yeah.
Y'all be doing too much.
Nicki Minaj: I saw that.
I saw that.
That was funny.