Nicki Minaj’s acceptance
speech for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist at the 2014 BET Awards on Sunday night
(June 29) was one to remember. She made our collective jaws drop, when she
revealed that she thought she was going to pass away. “The other day,
literally, I didn’t tell anybody this, I really thought I was about to die,”
she said. “Like, I was saying my
prayers to die. And I didn’t even wanna call
the ambulance because I thought, ‘Well, if I call an ambulance, it’s gonna be
on TMZ.’”
The Queens-raised star,
who had performed earlier in the night, then flashed her glowing smile, as the
packed Los Angeles theater laughed, cutting what had been a tense and hopefully
an over-dramtaic moment. “And it made me realize: I don’t care anymore what
anybody gotta say,” she said. “I’mma do me! I’mma do me!”
Nicki came out on top in
a category with Iggy Azalea, Eve, Charli Baltimore and Angela Haze, the Young
Money rapper was escorted to the stage by Lil Wayne to accept the evening’s
final award. When she got there, she gave a nearly four-minute speech that
mixed graciousness, confidence, and some jaw-dropping moments — which, of
course, is why we love Nicki.
For starters, the “Pills
N Potions” rapper stressed that her lyrics — all of them — are all her own,
written by her. Was that a slight to Iggy Azalea? If so, Nicki wouldn’t tell. “My
point is, what I want the world to know about Nicki Minaj, is when you hear
Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it,” she said, before adding. “No shade.”
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