In Joe Budden’s podcast interview with Nicki Minaj, she revealed she received illegal butt injections.
Minaj recently sat down with Budden for an extensive interview as part of his Pull Up series. During the conversation, the self-proclaimed Black Barbie opened up about her career and recalled rapper Lil Wayne teasing her about having a tiny butt.
The seemingly innocent comments had a lasting effect on the then-aspiring rapper, and Minaj eventually decided to get illegal butt injections.
“It’s not that you go to a doctor, a professional person. No, it’s some random person,” she told Budden.
Minaj explained she was inspired by the types of butts often celebrated in hip-hop.
“Social media was just beginning when I started, so I was a lot of people’s guinea pigs,” she says.” I was one of the first people to be shi**ed on on the internet. It wasn’t acceptable to have surgery at all or anything. At that time, I had never had surgery. I had ass shots, which, to this day, I realize even with me not consulting with anyone to do something like that, how insane that was.
“And actually what happened was I kept on being around [Lil] Wayne and them. At that time, you know Wayne. He’s always talking about big booties. Wayne would have a new chick in the studio every session. So they were his muses, but I just was around them all the time, and I was like the little sister. This is what you’re supposed to look like in the rap culture, and I don’t look like that.”
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The rapper says that as these jokes about big butts went on and on, she was pushed to enhance her figure.
“I think Wayne, I think they said stuff sometimes jokingly, but to a young girl or up-and-coming rapper or anything like that, when it’s from someone like Lil Wayne, it matters. Even if they’re joking, they don’t know that the person that is there in that room with them is not finding it funny.”
Nicki has admitted that she got butt shots, but in a 2013 interview with Extra, she denied having surgery on her face.
Watch the complete Nicki Minaj and Joe Budden interview below:
