Nicki Minaj Covers W Magazine, Poses for Artistic Spread

Bringing her glamorous ways to another publication, Nicki Minaj adorns the cover of the November 2011 issue of W magazine.

The “Super Bass” hitmaker got artsy for her front page treatment, as she posed for a spread of pictures done up by famed artist Francesco Vezzoli.

Inside the magazine’s pages, Vezzoli was asked what perked his interest when it came to working with Miss Minaj, to which he replied, “I wanted to play with the public image of a female hip-hop star. During my entire career, I have always been fascinated by powerful women in history. I have spent a lot of time researching the ways they were represented in art and how their images were used to mold the public imagination-and to convey aesthetic and philosophical ideas about beauty and sexual desire. My main interest has been to link the historical artistic approach to female representation to contemporary icons of the media era.”

Vezzoli added, “In my most recent works, for example, I transformed Princess ­Caroline of Hanover into a Garbo-esque Queen Christina, I asked ­actress Eva Mendes to become three symbols of classical sculpture (Venus, Saint ­Teresa, and Paolina Borghese), and I framed Lady Gaga into a de ­Chirico-inspired robotic extravaganza. For W, I wanted to turn the lovely Nicki Minaj into a powdered 18th-century courtesan.”

Also touching on how exactly he transformed the 28-year-old, Francesco said, “In her performances, Minaj makes very explicit and ­challenging use of her beauty and her body, so I thought of comparing her to some of the most famous courtesans in history: the Marquise de ­Montespan, Comtesse du Barry, Madame de Pompadour, and ­Madame Rimsky-­Korsakov. My idea was to reproduce four iconic portraits of some of the most fascinating females of the past in a series starring an American pop-culture role model. We tried to re-create those original portraits using similar furniture, props, and clothing, à la Visconti. Luckily enough, the result came out as surreal as it could be, just as I wished.”

Earlier this month Miss Minaj also graced the cover of Cosmopolitan, giving a brief-but-candid interview on the inside pages.

Prior to making it big in the music industry, Nicki actually confesses that she fell victim to suicidal thoughts. “It was one dead-end after another. At one point, I was like, ‘What would happen if I just didn’t wake up?’ That’s how I felt – like maybe I should just take my life.”

However the “Pink Friday” rapper pushed forward, in part because she dreamed of providing a better life for herself and her mom. “I would pray to God to make me famous, so I could buy my mother a huge house.”

As for the future, “I’ll have hundreds of millions of dollars. I will have put out five albums and will have an Oscar and Grammys. And I will be getting married and, a couple of years after that, [I] will have a bun in the oven.”

With millions of fans around the globe, an 8-year-old girl recently caught the attention of Nicki Minaj after her rendition of Nicki’s song “Super Bass” made her an overnight sensation on YouTube.

As a result of her performance, Sophia Grace got the surprise of a lifetime on Tuesday (October 11).

While onstage at the ” Ellen DeGeneres Show”, the little girl and her five-year-old cousin Rosie were quizzed about their love for the “Moment 4 Life” songstress before coming face-o-face with their idol herself!

After a long hug and an abundance of ecstatic screams, Nicki dished her thoughts on the Miss Grace, as she explained, “Within five seconds of seeing this video, I was calling everyone I knew and I was also receiving a billion emails. Everyone is like, ‘You have to see this little girl.’ She blew me away!”

While Minaj raved about the little superstar-in-the-making, she did head one piece of important advice to the girls, telling, “Stay in school. Music is beautiful, but stay in school, okay? Put your books first and your singing second!”

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