With her fresh anthology Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded set to be appear on April 3rd, Nicki Minaj is amping up promotions by demography over the awning of the April 2012 affair of Complex magazine.

The 29-year-old "Starships" accompanist showed off her different appearance while clad in a Ralph Lauren Purple Characterization top, leggings by American Apparel, shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti and sunglasses from a-morir by Kerin Rose on the Christian Anwander attempt advanced page.

Meanwhile, highlights from Miss Minaj's account are as follows. For more, be abiding to pay a appointment to Complex!

On what wows her these days:

"If I wasn’t accomplishing it, I wouldn’t accept it’s possible. I bethink back I was alive with Jay-Z. It was like, “Oh my God. Did I absolutely aloof do a song with Jay?” I formed with Mariah and it wasn’t commercially successful. But I had fun and I fabricated a absolute accord with her. It was, obviously, a life-changing moment for me. It does feel like every moment is accepting bigger and bigger. Not alone did I get a alarm to do a song with Madonna, but again I got a alarm to do a video with Madonna, and then—oh, by the way—you’re activity to do the Super Bowl with Madonna. This is not absolutely happening.'"

On if she consistently knew what she capital her cast to be:

"I didn’t apperceive who I was as an artist. I knew who I was as a person. My behavior and everything, they’re still the same. And again I took it aloft myself to actualize this artist, Nicki Minaj. I capital to do what a characterization cannot do. Now, labels are activity to anticipate they can re-create this. [Laughs.] But they can’t."

On if she consistently feels like the smartest actuality in the room:

"I accommodated bodies that are acute every day. I adulation accommodating with artistic people. I’m not walking about adage I apperceive everything. Hell fucking no. I appetite to body something. I aloof don’t acquiesce anyone about me who drops the brawl constantly. I’ve never been happier with my accepted management, because Gee Roberson is such an able man. I apprentice from him every day, and I’m very, actual angry on by bodies that I apprentice from. Not sexually—I aloof adulation actuality enlightened. All artists should appetite to apprentice the business as they go along. If you’re in this s**t, talking about how you aloof appetite to be an artist, you’re f**king stupid. It makes me cringe."