Harajuku Barbie Nicki Minaj got to play dress-up in ‘W’ magazine. Generally known for paying homage to her rap predecessors, this time she took ‘taking a leaf out of the history books’ to a new level in her ever-regal, Francesco Vezzoli snapshots.
The images, which surface just days after the rapstress learned of her American Music Award nominations and revealed plans on album #2, can be found in the famed magazine’s November issue.
See more of Miss Minaj below (thanks to C.G.):
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first!!!!!!!
Lil Kim could never do a shoot like this without her c****** hanging out. Very elegant nicki. Lol.
I def agree with you ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^..
Im not a fan of the shoot, but I get it.
@I’ma have to send her to her maker
WOW hahaha.
Nicki should wear that long wig, and that type of make up A LOT more often. she looks
B E A UTIFUL
!!!!
F***! that looks awesome!
Jesus…I’m just drooling looking at what W did….godamnnnnn Miss. Minaj.
I see you killing em softly, loudly, and every which way with your career!
….wow….she looks stunning!
Goodness, I’m so impressed by the work that artist did. I love the shoot. He had a real vision for Nicki as well as the ‘powerful women’ idea and he really did a beautiful job. She looks gorge.
Like I said, I’m waiting for that Vogue shoot because I saw Ms. Wintour chatting her up during NYFW.
GIMMICK, Fake just like her big sloppy ass 😕
“Rapper Nicki Minaj was transformed into into an 18th-century courtesan for W’s sixth annual Art Issue, Photographer/artist Francesco Vezzoli, whose work consistently taps into fashion and celebrity culture, refashioned Minaj into the Marquise de Montespan and some of her contemporaries. ”
“Just to set the record straight, according to History Undressed, courtesans were actually glorified prostitutes, far more educated and refined than street walkers or call girls, but nevertheless paid sexual partners and escorts for the royal, noble and wealthy men of society.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/nicki-minaj-refashioned-18th-century-248781
Wow…and the fact that the writer pointed it out by basically saying just so that we are clear…this image is nothing more than a glorified prostitute. It never ceases to annoy me how much mainstream media will go out of their way to hyper sexualize and demean the image of a Black woman. I know these woman are willing and consenting…but the media is still the one pushing the agenda. SMH.
@YVES She’s a puppet. Poor thang. If that wasn’t shade Idk what is..
@Nemo
It’s photoshop. And I’m sure that lacefront in real life would be so tragic just like the one in her Right Thru Me video.
Good pics nonetheless!!
slayyyy
If she don’t stop wit them eyes! She ruined the pictures.
life lock your a-ss up it sticks.
knowing nicki we might be seeing her in some of these hair styles.
Back during this time all women were considered nothing more than maids, comfort women, or tending to their men and caring for children. There were never any women back then that were higher than men so in a sense a prostitute could have had a positive or negative connotation since women were not of worth back then except to be used. The royal ones with dresses like these were a little higher value though.
and you think this is glorified? The women of TODAY would be hung and or executed back then for dressing the way they dress which is bikinis and underwear!
@ Yves I agree it was major shade to choose mistress’s who only power laid in the men that “Kept” them instead of independent powerful woman of Europe. But I would not call Marquise de Montespan a prostitute. I’m a history buff so I easily recognized the portrait where her dress has the green hue. Why not used the regalia portrait of the Empress’s Catherine The Great of Russia or Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Emplre. Instead they choose mistress’s of the French KIngs and her peers? Empress Elizabeth of Austria has some of the most beautiful portraits I have ever seen.
@Ima….
you HAVE to bring up lil kim.
WOW! Dang! These r great shots. I love these shots.
I dont usually click in to a Nicki post but these shots stopped me in my tracks.
I will buy W just b/c of these images. She looks absolutely amazing.
call her gimick or whatever you want but you cant call her ugly… i wish nicki started wearing that long wig she looks so beautifoooo!
Lil’ Kim already did the Medieval Barbie theme on her La Bella Mafia album and YOU CANNOT THROW SHADE TO LIL KIM without shading nicki at the same time. so quit that.
anyways. nicki minaj looks like a clown as usual , it looks like sum1 just photoshopped her head and pasted it onto a white womans body… epic fail. atleast TRY to model Nicki. dont just stand there and look into the sky .
OMG she looks one of those women from the 1700s !
ok
Ummm, this look is not from medieval. Goes to show you don’t know about your history.
F***. My account and pic not comin up. Btw, people back then didn’t “MODEL” like you would see today. They just posed in stiff positions for pictures or painted portraits in this case. Not in a s*** or provocative way either. This was the 17th or 18th century.
@Malibu barbie #FAIL
@ Malibu Barbie
…where you see medieval at?
Oh right…cause you ignorant and uninformed and don’t know s***. Course son….go back to what u was doin
Like your Kim said,
“IMMA tHROW SAHDE IF I CAN’t GEt PAID!”
@Malibu Barbie……okay yeah,how old is that album???only somebody pressed on lil kim’s return will find any & everything to compare nicki to her…now who looks better tho!! && i bet kim had her damn orangatang(back then), now hot air ballon tities showin huh???Get a fuckkin d*** & choke on it my nigg!!!
Queen of what? Queens is a borough and Trinidad is a republic. LEMME STOP. I KNOW DAMN WELL I LOVE ME SOME NICKI MINAJ a.k.a. Nicki Lewinsky, a.k.a. Nicki the Ninja a.k.a. Nicki the Harajuku Barbibe a.k.a. Roman Zolanski a.k.a. Grandma Martha.
SHES DUMB, BUT I LOVE THESE PHOTO’S
These or beautiful to me, nicki looks beautiful, shes a beautiful woman to me .
She reminds me so much of cha ka their facial features
kim did this already back in 2003 wtf
These are the best shots i’ve seen from her. Very different.
the best shots I have ever seen of her.
I think I will have to deal with the fact she is not the typical female rapper , she is just nicki !!
Go nicki ! I think now I am a SEMI-fan ! How I am gonna hate on someone who try to do her thing ?!
She is cool 🙂
Yay. Pop royalty speaks out language now!
@imma :
I am really not that bad , when someone do something great I say it ! I just took a lot of time to figure out what she is doing !
and I started to understand what she is doing , I regret what I said before about her 😳
Consider me a fan. 🙂
” plays FLY” 😉
She looks like a fool.
@pop royalty I wish KIM STANS were this open about their feelings instead of being bias. I see u tho!
She looks like she has Cherokee blood running thru her veins, or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, I also thiink that she looks like Melanie Fiona on the first pic.
@I’MA HAVE TO SEND HER BACK TO HER MAKER Bytch Nicki fans are the most biased of them all.Y’all talk about Lil kim rapping about s** but when Nicki does it it’s cool.Then y’all talk about Kim dressing proactively but when Nicki does it it’s cool.Then y’all don’t like when Kim makes a diss but when Nicki doesn’t it’s cool.Kim did everything Nicki did starting with the wigs to the barbie thing.If you a Nicki fan your a Kim fan.You don’t have to hate Kim considering that’s who Nicki idolizes.I know your familiar with Kim’s music and you cant tell me the “Naked Truth” album didn’t slay Pink Friday with lyrics.It’s ok to say you like both.
I think she looks great in the stunning clothes she is rocking.
She looks lovely and it is very different!
@I’ma :
CO-sign !
I wish nicki stans and LK STANS get along !
anyway I’m enjoying NM in David guetta’s song : TURN ME ON ! 😉
I believe nick is more than just a rapper , that’s why I started to like her ! Hope her new album will do great ! whether anyone will admit it or not , NM put the female rappers on the map again , ppl like LIL mama are a living proof !
How about Queen Cleopatra instead of a glorified ho!!! These white people are going to mop the floor with Nicki when they are through using her a$$. How many black girls or women you see on the home page of MyPinkFriday? It was cool to meet the “girls” on Ellen and congratulate them for covering Super Bass. But a shopping spree? Would Nicki do that for “black” girls? Don’t think so.
I listen to Nicki music but I will never BUY her music anymore.
I’m a Kimberly D. Jones STAN and a Nicki fan (sometimes) But I MUST admit Nicki looks BEAUTIFUL here.
Anyone who say’s otherwise is really just HATIING!
And P.S
LIL KIMS SINGLE DROPS TODAY!!! 🙂
Nicki is more than a hip hop rapper she is something else !
@IMA
B**** BYE!! YOU were the first to bring up lil kim in this post, and none of her stans were here!!! If YOU want f****** peace, stop being pressed!!!!!!!
umm..is there something wrong with Nicki’s eyes? Like for real?