Nicki Minaj's latest promotional push behind her just-released "The Pinkprint" album is a 16-minute film paired with three of the album's most revealing songs, "The Crying Game," "I Lied," and "Grand Piano." The rapper's "The Pinkprint Movie" comes in the wake of her breakup with her boyfriend of 15 years, Safaree Samuels.
Minaj is no stranger to autobiographical raps. She's previously gotten introspective on songs like 2010's "Moment 4 Life," but the star indicates "The Pinkprint" may be her most personal work to date.
"You know, I hate giving away too much before it comes out," Minaj told MTV News about the album. "It's just a very truthful story. And it just feels right. It feels like love. It feels like lessons learned."
The reigning rap queen is ready to pass on her feeling of elation to her fans. "I'm excited to make them feel a sense of love and a sense of growing up, musically and just as a woman," she continued, "and lyrically to remind n-as that I' m still the motherf-in' queen, n-a."
Just last week, Minaj acknowledged her longtime relationship with Samuels - and its recent implosion - in a way that strongly suggested that the heartbreak ballads on "The Pinkprint" aren't fictional.
"I don't think people realize it's not just a relationship or breakup," Minaj told Angie Martinez of New York station Power 105.1 on Wednesday (Dec. 17). "That was a humongous part of my life. It is something that I am dealing with publicly and it's not easy. I'm also not gonna joke about it or try to disrespect him and try to act like he didn't mean the world to me and still doesn't mean the world to me. I'm just figuring it out."
"I don't even know how I'm gonna function without that person in my life. I've never lived my life as a famous person without him."
Minaj told Hot 97's Ebro something similar days later: "It feels like a death." She admitted to Martinez that she doesn't really know if she's single right now - a point echoed this weekend in an ugly Twitter rant seemingly directed at Samuels, who has been promoting his own rap career on Instagram and YouTube with newfound vigor in recent months. It's hard not to be reminded of "Bed of Lies," where Minaj tells her ex that everything he has in life is because of her.
