Rapper Nicki Minaj Playing Down Her Sexuality

Raptress Nicki Minaj has been making a concerted effort to play down her sexuality as apart of her image. Minaj revealed in a recent interview with Fader Magazine about her efforts to keep her image fluid.

"That's the craziest once I've written yet," Nicki Minaj told Fader Magazine writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. "I sound like a Martian. I just really didn't give a d*mn, just being crazy as I could possibly be...I don't know where I fit in the spercturum of rap yet, I think now I'm kind of proving myself, but before, people thought I was more of a sex symbol or wannabe sex symbol. Now they're seeing. That's why I make the goofiest faces, I don't want people to think I'm up here trying to be cute. I'm trying to entertain, and entertaining is more than exuding sex appeal. I don't think that's fun. I don't find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. It's wack. I'm trying to just show my true personality, and I think that means more than anything else. I think when personality is at the forefront, its not about male or female, its just about, who is this weird character?"