There is a void right now in hop-hop for female artists and I am hoping that Nicki Minaj will be the one to fill it.   Nicki speaks on some joints from her mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty…

“I Get Crazy” (featuring Lil Wayne). “A real dope record,” she said. “I did it and I let Wayne hear it. He played his guitar on it and put his whole rock sound on it. I switched up my verses after he did that, I have to admit. That’s kinda taboo in hip-hop to switch up your verses after [they are laid down], but he kinda bodied me and he stepped the energy up on it — so I stepped my energy up on it. The new version of ‘I Get Crazy’ is like a rock feel, ’cause we’re just all rocked out. Being a lunatic and not caring.”

» “Kill the DJ.” “A dope, fun record that all my girls like,” Nicki said. “It’s saying that if the DJ doesn’t spin my record again, I’m gonna kill him. But DJs like being killed by me — they like being straddled and choked, you know.”

» “Envy.” ” ‘Envy’ is a song that I wrote, like, a year ago. Being a female and trying to get into hip-hop, you’re damned if you do/ [damned] if you don’t type of thing. Other girls don’t wanna see you shine. I said on the record, ‘Still I rise.’ These girls are like crabs in a bucket — I feel if you allow one girl to get in the door, she’s gonna hold the door open so everybody else can come in. I look at it like it’s about us. Female rappers are dead. Where are we? ‘Envy’ is a very personal record for me because it’s real.”