By K.B. Tindal
Hip Hop Vibe Staff Writer
To hear her tell the story, Nicki Minaj is a diva. When she first gained mainstream attention and talked to Barbara Walters, Nicki Minaj talked about her personalities. Nicki Minaj gained a huge fan base and her alter egos come out on her records, but those who have worked with her have not all had positive things to say.
Last year, Nicki Minaj signed on as a judge for “American Idol,” working alongside fellow urban entertainment vixen, Mariah Carey. Within weeks, footage surfaced of Nicki Minaj cursing out the legendary songstress. The two ended up feuding for months and have apparently agreed to disagree with Nicki Minaj not returning to “American Idol.”
Another person who had a difficult time working with Nicki Minaj is Paper Magazine’s editorial director, Mickey Boardman. He said everything with Nicki Minaj worked out in the end, but the two weeks were “torture,” as a whole. In a feature with Buzzfeed, Mickey Boardman recounted the Nicki Minaj experience.
Read Mickey Boardman’s comments on Nicki Minaj below:
“Nicki Minaj was not fun. The Nicki thing turned out fine in the end, but it was two weeks of hideous torture and [her] walking off shoots. We had hired a photographer who’d shot her before. She liked the pictures, so we got him to shoot her again for the cover a year or two later.
The first day of the shoot, she was locked in a room with her hair and makeup team, people whom she picked — she made them put [all her hair/makeup] on, then take it off. She would not let anyone from our team, stylists or photographers, talk to her. She came out and it was a mess. The photographer took some shots and she said, “Let me see.” He [showed her] five frames and she walked off — it was insanity. I had to sign up for AOL Instant Messenger so I could talk to her later, and she hung up on me on AIM. It was a super headache. We were going to do another shoot and then she had to cancel the day before.
In the end everything was set up, but she wouldn’t use the stylist that we had. [Eventually] we got it, and the pictures looked great.”
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