Nicki Minaj reportedly "dozed off" four times during an interview with GQ's Taffy Brodesser-Akner, in which the rapper refused to discuss the themes in her "Anaconda" music video or her famous — and controversial — butt, saying to do so would be "degrading."
"To be completely accurate, she never fell into actual REM sleep during our interview," Brodesser-Akner wrote in her story, "but at four separate times she dozed off, her head jerking awake at just the moment it had started to dip."
"In between, she was what I could call low-key and reserved, because I am generous," Brodesser-Akner continued, "but the picture looked like this: those eyelids, falling, falling over eyes that would cross momentarily, closing for a moment but staying too long — a blink that lasted a few blinks longer than a blink."
Brodesser-Akner does give Minaj the benefit of the doubt, however, informing readers that the interview was given in the middle of New York Fashion Week, where "every few hours it was a new event with a new dress, new hair, new makeup," and was surprised that the 31-year-old rapper "was upright at all."
While she was awake, however, Minaj is reluctant to discuss her now-infamous music video for her hit single "Anaconda," insisting that it has nothing to do with sex, or even her butt, despite what everything about it may suggest.
"I just see the video as being a normal video," Minaj claimed. "I think the video is about what girls do. Girls love being with other girls ... we would have slumber parties and we'd be dancing with our friends."
Brodesser-Akner explains later in the story that she was warned to not ask Minaj "about her ass, that she finds it degrading," which may explain why she was denying any sexual undertones in the song or video.
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