As Rap’s reigning Queen and Pop culture’s most exciting debutante, Nicki Minaj and her ‘worth’ as an artist has never been higher.
So high, the likes of MAC, Adidas and Pepsi have all enlisted the MC to front their respective campaigns, hoping to capitalize on her slow but sure ascent to ‘household name’ status.
Now peep behind the scenes footage from her recent ad with Pepsi by way The Insider. Footage, which sees her credit chart rival Beyonce as inspiration behind the deal.
Watch below…
On Knowles, Minaj confessed:
Out of the people that have done something with Pepsi, I think I was probably the most influenced by the Beyonce commercial because I felt like this is a young black girl, early on in her career and she’s doing something so iconic and I never thought in a billion years that Pepsi would reach out to someone like me.
Fans will also be pleased to know that this commercial is one of two projects Minaj has landed with the company.
Later on in the year, she is reportedly set to unveil her very own beverage named ‘Pop‘ under the Pepsi brand.
This, months after releasing her sophomore album ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded‘- set to hit the 1 million copies sold worldwide mark by the first week of July.
Beyonce’s Pepsi commercial was everything, the way she sashayed out that vintage car gave me the life I needed.
It’s no secret Nicki is was one of the biggest Beyonce stans, so I’m not surprised. BTW that picture of Nicki is so fierce.
So no one’s gonna comment on the fact that I made a mistake on my post by forgetting to delete “was” my comment flopped.
I never heard Nicki mention anything about Beyonce until now.She just trying to gain Nicki fan-base.
Girl please *hands you receipts*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wGS7F1mVKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr3-0PQzs9s
The reason behind her inspiration is legit considering Bey was a young black superstar embarking in a campaign that not many black female artists get to accomplish. Love Queen Bey.
that’s the truth Nicki!!!!!! Bey was only 20-21 when she signed with pepsi! that’s huge. goodluck nicki,even though i’m no fan of your image(i like some of your music though) i still think what you’re doing in this business today s pretty remarkable! so kudos mama! get it
Matthew knowles was such a good manager no matter how ungrateful the hive is acting now
Ugh I hate ungrateful niccas 😡
@Kat stop praising yourself all the damn time, the Beyhive appreciates your time, effort, and s****…But damn, Mathew you were shady as helll and we had to cut your ass loose. #theend
Dont credit her too much Nicki, before you know it she’ll be stealing your ideas and parading them about like she created them.
Anyway, I thought id inform you h*** that talk that talk has now outsold 4 worldwide.
*flickshairandsipsmediatraffictea
Your comment was unnecessary & you sound desperate.
Almost as desperate as Bey when she paraded the origami bump at the VMAS.
I’m not even a Bey stan but let’s not talk about desperate when Rihanna decides to make songs with a man who beat her & posts photos of her rolling blunts on people’s heads purposely seeking attention. Let’s not.
At least Rihanna didn’t marry a woman beater.
Can you say JAY Z?
yup,says a R**** stan named “queenofthenavy” LMAO! didn’t u guys say that TTT would sell more than 1 mill copies in the U.S before it’s 6th month of relese so it can best Bey’s 4’s achievement?? well that hasn’t happened and now u’re typing lies again to elevate Rihgoat! SMH,poor stans!
Dont believe me check for yourself oh and RyvitasLipBalm please jump off a cliff. You stan for a chick WITHOUT any stats and i have told you before I have nothing to say to you.
Jay-Z’s a woman beater? B**** please show me the carfax since you want to make invalid claims. Again YOUR fav made a song with the man who beat her, that doesn’t sound like BEYONCE to me. Calling someone’s husband a beater when the world knows it’s not true just shows the level you would stoop to prove a point. You’re reaching for the stars sis.
ain’t nobody got time for dat *in my sweet brown voice* @queen
way a navy stan be trying to start sh!t this is about nicki,showing love to one the Legendary beyonce and making people know that she was inspired by beyonce,but your shady @ss don’t like that you had to try and start sh!t.
In 2 years she’s managed to sign deals, endorsements, & a campaign with MAC, OPI, Adidas, Nokia, & now Pepsi. She’s also launching a clothing brand & fragrance, how can I hate on a girl who is accomplishing so much in such a small period of time? Not really a fan of her music but I love her business mindset. Good job Nicki!
STAN DOWNE NICKI STAN DOWNE!!!
one day we’ll be seeing rita up there too. And hey Queen Of The Navy could you send this to Rihanna please, she’ll know what it’s about………
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation
Girl, you better stan for the bestest.
Zats right beu beu, wership the kwayne!!
What better news could a girl have than to have the girl she loves most in hip hop, heap praises on the girl she loves in pop. I swear I will forever stan for Nicki and King Bey. #TeamMinaj #TeamBeyHive
Pay that homage girl to da real Queen Bee!
So far Nicki is doing the damn thang. I just hope she’s humble and sane enough to know that she won’t have this moment for life, especially with songs like *Stupid H*** cus that s*** cost her alot of fans. hopefully going forward she’ll take her career more seriously. (NO MORE LIL’KIM DISSES)
Nicki will be gone in 3 years.
She extremely honest,it shows how good of a person she is deep inside.That’s why God is blessing her.She is not on some childish competitivty.
Go nicki,you came to fly
Lol I’m waiting for that one delusional LIl Kim stan who will claim for dear life that Beyonce stole Lil Kim’s title. Queen Bey earned it & she has never dubbed herself the Queen. MTV, Rolling Stone, VH1, & Seventeen dubbed Bey as the QUEEN B. Deal!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girl shut the hell up. Clearly its just a play on words and a name.
I missed you bew, the best gravatar in the whole wide world tbh.
@KING Thanks boooo 🙂
@NaturalBeauty Shut yo ass up. You’re the only person that brought up Lil Kim.
I’m obviously not referring to you. But since you commented, are you maddddddd? Do you possess anger? Are you experiencing hardships? Lucky for you I ran out of f**** to give bitchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
No-body even mention Kim.You d*ck-riding f*****.
@LAYLA Girl please I’n not even gay or a dude so try again.
aunt jemima paying tribute to popeye’s chicken biggest fan!!!
This is epic!! Everyone shuckand jive over a nice cold glads of purple drank! Oh lawdy! Lawdy!
@SAM
Since your mag has become a gossip site basically…are you going to report the claim that Fist Brown aka The Angriest Beaver Alive, bought his one and only Grammy?
In the mood to drag #teambrainless tonight.
*site
they still sucking this b**** off? nicki go fly away girl…
keep doing you nicki,you were inspired by beyonce that,s a good look because beyonce is a legend in this game,she did that commercial when she was very young,and for a black woman thats a great look right there by put in work,like i said keep doing you nicki keep putting in work.
As I come back on this site to check for the greatest artist out which is kreayshawn I still see beehives & Rihanna navy still fighting LMAO what are ya fighting for once kreayshawn drops her soon to be classic album beyonce & Rihanna & nicki Minaj will be a nobody ok get that through your dumb heads. Ya make the white girl mob sick
Ya waste your whole life on a blog site smh
I’m embarrass of ya what ya need to be doing is downloading kreayshawn new hit single “BREAKFEST” on iTunes!!!
chile bye
I loved Beyonce’s “Carmen” pepsi commercial…. I think that was her first commercial. But the We Will Rock You was definitely my fav…..
There hadn’t been black women have there….Beyonce, Tina, Janet, Mary…..am I missing one? And of all the black women, I think Bey was the youngest when she did her pepsi ad….
Anyway, congrats to Nicki.
We Will Rock is definitely on the top 5 of best/iconic Pepsi’s commercial.
lets not forget those EPIC pepsi ads around the time..she filmed “Carmen”….or the one wit J.Lo…..or the one wit Britney and Pink
The best Beyonce Pepsi commercial was the one with Pink and Britney and of course the one with the man David Beckham and J.Lo, just take a look to those picture.
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Nicki is just trying to gain Beyonce fans.This girl aint slick.
how is she trying to gain bays fan,nicki always bin showing beyonce love way before she release her first album,so your d-gsh-t comment is void,go to that other blog with that drama sh-t you are trying to start,because the real fans knows whats up.
Good job Nicki. Everyone knows Pepsi only picks the best of the best. And girl, yous is off da chain *z snap*
#WhereTheyPepsiCommercialAt??
Two FLOPS.
Who cares??????
Its to bad that pepsi has 32 teaspoons of sugar in each can..that’s such a great product to endorse..serious side eye~
Damn Beyonce has had 3 pepsi commercials. THREE all at the beginning of her career. KING
This flop b****…#teamkim
Nicki Minaj is only a SINGLES artist just like Rihanna but Rihanna’s singles and albums still sell way more than NIcki. Starships already went platinum x4 but her flop ass album Roman Reloaded still has yet to even go GOLD in the U.S.
Oh Nicki boo. You can lick Beyonce’s kitty Kay all you want. She ain’t f****** with you. Your Pepsi deal is sweet if it would of dropped with Pink Friday. Roman Reloaded flopped dropped and rolled. This commercial did’t even get you album sales. No one thinks of you except your Stans. The only reason Jay-Z did a song with you is b/c it was Kanye’s track. Beyonce has now mastered playing diplomatic but behind closed doors she is laughing at you. Bey is more of a rapper than you. Lol. You wiglet.
Nicki the only reason why Pepsi chose you to do a THIS LAME COMMERCIAL BECAUSE OF YOUR CROSSOVER SUCCESS FROM THEIR IDEA OF HIP HOP TO SINGING CHILDREN SONGS…..LMAO As always, they made her look like a cartoon character in their commercial, it does not give the general public the urge to drink quench their thirst with a Pepsi, it only makes me feel like throwing up on my poodle….BYE GIRL!
Nicki the only reason why Pepsi chose you to do THIS LAME COMMERCIAL BECAUSE OF YOUR CROSSOVER SUCCESS FROM THEIR IDEA OF HIP HOP TO SINGING CHILDREN SONGS…..LMAO As always, they made her look like a cartoon character in their commercial, it does not give the general public the urge to quench their thirst with a Pepsi, it only makes me feel like throwing up on my poodle….BYE GIRL!
Lol Nicki is playing her political cards and doing the tribue/homage game.
She’s only “thanking people where it’s due” NOW because of Kim’s recent allegations. That way, it appears like she IS giving thanks, and they’d be like “Aw, Nicki would never do that (not pay homage)”.