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Nicki Minaj shocked the world by toning down her look

HOW do you keep shocking audiences if you’re someone like Nicki Minaj? Going back to basics but keeping the girls out for show.

Nicki Minaj poses in the press room at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, 12 Sep 2010 in Los Angeles, USA. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

HOW do you keep shocking audiences if you’re someone like Nicki Minaj? Going back to basics.

“I always thought that by the time I put out a third album, I would want to come back to natural hair and natural makeup,” the Anaconda rapper, 31, said in an interview in the November issue of GQ. “I thought, I will shock the world again and just be more toned down. I thought that would be more shocking than to keep on doing exactly what they had already seen.”

During the months-long lead-up to Minaj’s third album, The Pinkprint (due out in late November), the rapper has gone back to her natural hair colour and mainly been seen in sleek and sophisticated outfits. While pushing her previous two albums, Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, she paired her storeyed rapping ability with a cartoonish aesthetic that saw her donning colourful wigs and outrageous fashion.

Before ... Famous for flamboyant outfits, Nicki Minaj arrives at 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images.
Before … Famous for flamboyant outfits, Nicki Minaj arrives at 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images.

Toned down ... Nicki Minaj dials back her outrageous style for a more subtle look as she attends the 2014 Billboard Music Awards Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.
Toned down … Nicki Minaj dials back her outrageous style for a more subtle look as she attends the 2014 Billboard Music Awards Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.
Last month, the MC said that the decision to simplify her look was a result of growing confidence.

“I kind of feel now that I look more like my regular old self, like what I look like when I’m at home,” she told the Associated Press. “I think there’s just a little bit more confidence and so I’m like, ‘It is what it is. I am who I am. I look like what I look like.’ I don’t really have to change much of it anymore.”

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