Nicki Minaj has flashed two engagement-sized rings from boyfriend Meek Mill, but the couple is not engaged, yet. The engagement will become official when Mill slips a promised third ring on Minaj's finger and not a moment sooner.
"I'm not engaged yet," Minaj said. "He said that my third ring would be my engagement ring. But sometimes he calls me his fiancée, and I'm always trying to stop him, like, 'Nope! I ain't got that third ring yet!'"
The couple's relationship has persevered through a lot since the couple got serious in 2014, when he went to jail on a conviction for drug and gun charges. The 23-year-old rap artist defended him in a Philadelphia court room late last year, telling the judge that the 28-year-old rapper isn't "perfect, but I can't believe how much he's changed."
If and when Mill proposes, the Trinidad-born singer is ready to start a family.
"We're just taking it one step at a time. And, you know, if that happens, if I get married, then I'll have a child, and that'll be fun, because I can't wait to hold my baby," she said.
Minaj also respects Mill for seeing her as an equal in their relationship and tougher than most women, just like his own mother.
"When he and I were just friends, he would always say, 'You remind me of my mother, and I like that because you're like a dude. You're tough like a guy and you talk like a dude.' So I always got the sense that me being tough and bossy was a turn-on for him. And it's important for me to keep my voice," she said. "Being in a relationship shouldn't mean that you lose your voice. Being in a relationship should mean that you've met a secure-enough man to allow you, in a sense, to remain a queen."
The "Anaconda" singer has not started work on her follow up to her 2014 album, "Pinkprint," taking time to live her life and have some fun. She's also starring in "Barbershop: The Next Cut," out next month, and working as an executive producer on the Freeform TV show inspired by her life as a young girl, born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, N.Y., whose dream was to become a star.
