- My dad beat my ass because I kissed a black kid at school.
And it didn't matter that he was a boy.
It mattered of the color of his skin,
you know what I'm saying? - Wow, wow, wow.
- That's the way some people in our world are raised,
and it's not fair.
(upbeat pop music)
- Well, hey, everybody!
This is Ginger Minj, and I am so excited to be here
with all of my sisters for Billboard Pride,
and we're gonna be spillin' the tea today!
But first, can we play a little game?
- Yes, ma'am. - What is it?
- Whoo! - I'm excited,
it's called Name that Queen!
- OK! - All right!
- [Ginger] You've got a secret card,
that holds the name of a queen on your lap.
When it's your turn, hold it up to your head,
don't look at it, we're gonna give you the clue,
you're gonna guess that queen.
I'll start.
(clears throat)
- Oh! - Season two!
- Eyebrows.
- Tammie was talking about getting arrested with her.
- Oh, Raven! - Raven!
(bell ringing)
- Yay, what do I win?
Oh, she looks good.
- Ginger Minj, You did well in this challenge,
but the judges weren't ravin'.
(laughing)
- You got to do this.
- You gotta move your head.
(laughing)
You next, you next.
- Alright.
- She would!
- She's mean, she's real mean.
- Number two and one, season two and she won.
- No, is that who you think it is?
- Oh, girl, I can't see.
- So there are two of them,
there was one of them on your season.
- Trinity.
- [Ginger] Yeah, but the first one.
- K. Bonet.
- [All] Yes!
(bell ringing)
- Woo!
- She look like Tyra!
So you wanna take me to the pyramid?
- I'm like, "Oh, she won too!"
(laughing)
- [Ginger] Hurry now, go girl!
- She says she's gonna blow dry it.
- Oh!
- She did, she did.
- Trigger, trigger.
- Oh, my turn, oh!
I kinda saw it!
I think I saw it.
- [Jasmine] You did?
- I saw it.
- Derrick Barry looks amazing.
- Aww!
- The only one to ever be disqualified.
- Oh, Willam.
Willam, Willam.
(bell ringing)
- [Shea] Yes!
(laughing)
- That bitch was gonna get his dress ripped off of 'em.
- She sure was, Reddit was all a-Twitter.
See, I put two social media platforms.
- Good job, Reddit was all a-Twitter.
- Who you have, baby Cracker?
- Alright, here we go.
- [All] Oh!
- We've been talking about her the whole time.
- So, um. - Literally.
- She's a very controversial winner.
- One or two bombs over Baghdad.
- Very controversial winner.
- Children--
- Shut up, are you serious?
Has a little tyke she takes to the shows.
- Two, she won.
- Oh, I don't know.
- Three, won.
- Dragging on social media, FBI knocked on her door.
- Really? Why would you put her?
- She's the one.
- Is it Ms. Sanchez?
- [All] Yes!
(bell ringing)
- Why would you do that?
(laughing)
She scares me.
- Problematic!
- Why?
- Just don't fuck with her.
- [Jasmine] Think about this.
That girl has been getting bullied since season two.
On social media, everywhere she go.
- True. - Really?
- A person's only gonna take
so fucking much before they snap,
now no matter what she posts on that social media,
don't say nothing to her.
If you don't like her, don't follow her.
- Okay.
- Right.
- [Jasmine] Then don't talk about her kids,
and don't talk about her.
- A click follow, lick my follow.
- And when a person snap 'cause they getting bullied,
you don't know what the next step is,
'cause they don't have no other avenue.
- Right.
- That's why it's not cool to bully
on social media or in person.
- Tell us about it.
- I hope she's okay though.
- She's okay, just quit fucking with her.
- I don't--
- Neither one of them is right.
She ain't right, and the girls that was picking
on her aren't right,
and the people that's chiming in are not right.
It's two sides to every story.
- Yeah.
- One person cannot just go waking up, popping off.
Why is that person popping off?
- But I hope she's okay.
- She's okay, just quit fucking with her.
- [Ginger] I'm just waiting
for her new music video to release
the weekend of DragCon.
(all agreeing)
- Right. - You know, Beyonce drop off.
- Girl! - Y'know that's the countdown.
- Okay, this game is so much fun.
Jasmine, your turn.
- [All] Oh!
- We can't even, we can't even--
- [Tammie] She's a ten, girl.
- Iconic exit.
- She walked out backwards, went home.
- Oh! Vanessa.
- Yes ma'am.
(bell ringing)
♪ Miss Vanjie, ♪
♪ Miss Vaaaan-jie ♪ - Yeah! Vanjie.
(laughing)
- That picture look good.
♪ Miss Vaaan-jie ♪
- Right, that look nice.
- Right.
- Alright, bring us all home.
- Here we go.
- (all) Oh!
- She's from our season,
she just won All Stars 3. - Is is Miss Violet?
- Barbie doll.
- She's been on two TV shows,
and only one she's judged on.
- You guys look like you would be in a folk band together.
- Def hard.
- Oh really?
- [Ginger] Winner winner, chicken dinner?
- Big blond hair, very uh...
- Oh, you mean Trixie Mattel?
(bell ringing)
- Okay, Trixie.
Awesome.
- Y'all from the same era, the 60's bitch.
(laughing)
- Yeah, the 60's!
- Yes, from the 60's!
- Oh my goodness, shit.
- The 60's, I love them!
- I'm thinking of all the swirly fabric, you know.
- Oh, absolutely.
(laughing)
- Alright ladies, now.
That was fun.
- Was it?
- But you know, RuPaul's Drag Race started filming
while Bush was in office.
- Uh huh.
- You know?
(all) Wow.
- Really?
- Ten years. A decade later, it is one of the biggest
shows on television.
And, what are some of the most iconic moments been to you?
Tammie?
- See you in the magazines.
(laughing)
- See you in the magazines, absolutely.
- I think definitely, obviously, Lady Gaga
being in the first episode
of Season 9 was an iconic moment, you know?
- It's kind of a coup, really. - Yeah.
It kind of elevated the guest judges to a different level.
- Yeah, I mean it literally was like,
"Oh yeah, we're on VH1 now."
- Yeah.
(all agreeing)
- And the rest of us from before Season 1.
- Season 1 was on VH1,
Monday night was on Logo,
Tuesday night was on VH1.
Shock-a-boom!
- Wow!
- Good to know!
- Season 7 and All Stars 2 were both on VH1.
- Were we on VH1 or Logo?
- We were on Logo but it aired on VH1 as well,
but it made the full transformation--
- I guess so, yeah. - In season 9.
- I would say, probably, one of the most memorable moments
in Drag Race history, I think was the season 9 finale.
That was definitely like a game-changer.
- Oh, the lip sync to the crowd.
- The lip sync against myself and Sasha Velour,
obviously not a glorious moment for me,
but still so iconic and so just like,
game-changing to the brand so definitely that.
- Well, you now know have flower petals
just cascading down your dress.
- They follow me wherever I go.
(laughing)
- My favorite had to be when Patti LaBelle
sent me a message.
(all gasping)
That was my all-time,
hands down, favorite moment,
I don't know about other seasons but that was--
- In the same vein, John Waters,
getting his stamp of approval.
John Waters and Divine are,
they were my everything.
They saved me as a child,
it was my drag race.
It's all I had to look forward to,
and the only thing that let me know that it's okay
to be a little, fat gay boy from a little country town.
- See, that was Patti for me.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- [Ginger] But, I think for me, if we're talking about like,
the moments that are iconic to us personally,
it was getting the message from my father
on the finale of Season 7.
- Wow, yeah.
- He and I and both of my brothers had been estranged
for over 10 years.
- Wow.
- And I won't say that it mended that bridge,
but it certainly started to put it back together.
- To bring some, yeah.
- Put the pieces there, you know?
- Congratulations.
- Does anybody have any favorite lip syncs?
- Lip syncs!
- Any favorite lip syncs, well how 'bout you?
- [Miz] I just love Bob versus Derrick Barry because,
Bob is so comfortable.
- Yeah.
- Doin' her thing,
and that's just like,
usually when you see someone in a lip sync,
they've got that look on their face
even if it's a happy song, they're like "I'm doin' this,"
Bob's just like, "Boop-boop-bap, boop-boop-bap,"
she's just like,
"Well, I was born to do this anyways, so here we go."
- I'm gonna have to watch it.
- I think it's iconic.
- Shout-out to my Season 9 sister Valentina,
cause that was a pretty memorable lip sync.
(all agreeing)
That was iconic!
(laughing)
- That one, everyone was quoting that lip sync.
- What about--
- How about Alyssa Edwards, Tatianna, All Stars 2?
- Yes, that was definitely--
- That was great.
- And Dita Ritz against the Princess--
- Dita Ritz, The Princess, ah!
- In season 4, to Natalie Cole's This Will Be,
shoutout to Natalie Cole, may she rest in peace.
- [Ginger] The one that really like,
changed the game for me when I was
watching the show as a fan,
was Raja and Carmen.
- Oh!
- When they were crawling all over each other.
- They were naked.
- Bitch, I need to go back and watch this shit.
- I grew up having a certain set of feelings down below,
and I was like "I'm feeling--"
- You gettin' hard.
- Spidey senses tingling and I don't know why!
- She was getting hard.
- This season, Monet X Change against Dusty Ray Bottoms,
Monet, that was the fake-out death drop,
heard around the world.
That was great.
- [Eureka] Iconic.
- Girl, this is what you do not want
to hear when you wake up.
"Today, you will be lip syncing Nicki Minaj
"against Monet X Change."
Just don't wanna hear that.
(comical yelp)
Nobody wants that.
- I wake up every morning, that's my alarm.
- It's like "Ginger,"
you're like (screams)
(laughing)
- Another icon lip sync,
Latrice Royale, "I'm Every Woman."
- (gasps) Yes.
- But who else gets to say that they've uh,
given themselves a double mastectomy on-stage,
other than Sasha Belle and myself?
- You were the Kiki.
You were so little, and she was way up here.
- The most fun I've had on all of Season 7.
- I know, it was the cutest.
- You looked like you were just having fun.
- [Ginger] That was such a bad day for me,
just mentally,
and she and I went "You know what?
"It doesn't matter, it's time to have fun."
- Right.
- And we went out there and we had the best time.
- Fuck it up.
- You even had a better time, bitch, when they said,
"Ginger Minj, go to the back, you're safe."
- Yes ma'am! Thank you.
(laughing)
- Well, what about the best entrances?
Everybody knows, that's your first impression to the world.
You have to make a splash, so what do you think
are some of the splashiest entrances?
- Huh.
- Tootsie Lou.
- Yes!
- That was you?
I gotta go back and watch this shit.
- [Ginger] Jasmine's like,
I've just been watching Cops on repeat, girl.
- I don't even watch Cops girl,
they just say, "Yeah, I'm gonna arrest this bitch."
(laughing)
- The Bold and Beautiful.
- Mine was when I walked in, cause I had a six pack.
(laughing)
- I walked in with a keg.
- I wasn't even thinking about that part,
I just wanted to go in there you know, woo!
- Feeling your shit.
- And they got my jush.
But it was the best for me,
because I finally made it.
- Absolutely.
- To this point--
- I lowkey feel like for all of us it's all our own,
cause I just feel like mine was--
- I hated my season 7 entrance.
- Oh, you did?
- But I loved my All Stars 2 entrance.
That's just all the redemption I need.
(laughing)
- I loved Bob's "UNT" with the C-armed.
- That was everything, yes.
- One of the awkward ones that I'll always remember,
I think it was Tempest DuJour that dropped a baby?
- Yeah, the little baby.
- I was like, ah!
- What, no, the most awkward I've ever seen,
and I was there in person, and I love her so much,
but Jaymes Mansfield was probably,
the most awkward thing to watch.
- Oh, iconic.
- Physically, it was even more uncomfortable.
It was something else.
- Or Naysha.
- Vivacious.
- Or Naysha!
- Poor Naysha. - Vivacious!
- Vivacious, vivacious.
- Oh, that little thing on her head.
- That thing was super down.
- And one entrance you can't forget,
of course Laganja coming in and slamming, right?
"Come on, let's get sickening!"
- Damn, baby them hoes--
- That was probably the most iconic.
- Them hoes gonna have bad backs and knees
from doing them shablams and layouts.
- That's right, that's right.
You're not supposed to hear your body hit the floor.
You're supposed to lay out so we can say, ah!
And they go (claps)
Bitch, your back and shit gonna be fucked up.
- "So we could say, ah!"
- I go to the bars, ah!
We're hearin' smack, smack, smack.
- We know that entrances are important.
- Yes, they are.
- But everybody looks forward,
every season, to the Snatch Game.
- [Jasmine] Yes, they do.
- Ah, snatch honey, snatch snatch.
- What do you think are the most iconic snatch games?
- I mean, Bianca as Judge Judy of course,
is like the one that you think about right away, I think.
- [Eureka] Yeah, me too.
Eureka's Honey Boo Boo, I'm just saying.
(laughing)
- [Jasmine] You were a good one, bitch!
- Very good!
- I think the first truly iconic one to me,
was Jinkx as Little Edie.
- [Shea] Of course.
- [Ginger] Very much a game-changer.
- I also really loved Bob as Uzo Adu-
- [Eureka] Aduba, yes.
- [Shea] Uzo Aduba.
Uzo Aduba, it is such a tongue twister for me.
Uzo Aduba and uh, Carol...
- [Eureka] Channing.
- [Shea] Channing, thank you. I almost said Burnett.
- [Eureka] No, you're fine.
- However...
I would like to say that like,
Uzo was a character that she was playing,
not a real person, and that is cheating,
and same with BenDeLaCreme, and uh...
She was playing the character from Downtown Abbey,
and not the actress and I was like,
"That is cheating!"
- I think that's clever.
I like her little pole, I like Uzo.
- I love holes.
(laughs)
- Hole is the goal.
- A hole is a goal.
I loved both of Alaska's, Lady Bunny and Mae West.
Those were both iconic.
- [Shea] Absolutely.
- [Eureka] She knows how to play Snatch Game.
- [Miz] Snatch game, girl.
- [Ginger] I had to share the win with her,
but I thought Kennedy's Little Richard?
- Oh, god!
- Another game-changer.
- [Eureka] The only person that's ever done
a male character, that's iconic in its own.
- Yeah, I mean up to that point, yeah.
- Thorgy did Michael Jackson.
- [Eureka] Oh, yeah, I guess so.
- Did she? I can't see that.
- She was the first one, she was the first.
And I had to sit right next to her, and we're like,
"Damn it, all I wanted was to win the Snatch Game,
"that's the only challenge I wanted to win
"and she's killing it."
Actually, I think Season 7 had a real strong--
[Eureka sings a high note]
- Yeah, it was, cause Pearl as Big Ang,
bitch I was only one with Pearl.
It was, (deep voice) "Let me see what I'm trying to do."
(laughing)
- So then to like, look--
- I cannot!
- The double-win with Kennedy, I was like,
"Oh, this means even more because I know how
"funny they were."
Yeah, it was so fun.
- [Jasmine] You, yeah.
- Well, we all have our favorite parts of Drag Race,
of course, and I'm sure everybody out there does as well.
We have run out of time, so why don't y'all guys
just reminisce amongst yourselves about--
- Tweet about it!
- Your favorite pieces?
And we're gonna go and spill a little more tea later,
thank you guys so much for joining us,
and we can't wait to see you next time.
- [Jasmine] Get your jush!
- Get your jush!
(laughter)
- You guys, thank you for a lovely afternoon.
- [Tammie] Oh, y'all are leaving us?
- I have to go, she has an out that's harder
than this goddamn bunion.
- Right, well, good luck with it.
- I love you.
- I love you too, it's so nice to meet you.
- This is the only day I've prepared,
'cause I have press tomorrow.
- Get your life right baby.
- Alright baby sis, nice meeting you.
- Mwah.
- Nice meeting you, baby.