Rapper Nicki Minaj covers one of two covers for VIBE’s June/July issue. Read what she had to say concerning her craft:

“When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly,” she says. “The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.”

via VIBE