TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ 2016 Issue.
TIME Magazine returns with its annual TIME 100 issue, highlighting the 100 most influential people ranging in different fields including entertainment, politics, sports, philanthropy, and more. A select few of the nominees were given their own covers this year: Leonardo DiCaprio, actress Priyanka Chopra, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Priscilla Chan, Christine Lagarde, and Nicki Minaj.
For Nicki Minaj’s cover story it was written by none other than her mentor Lil’ Wayne, the person who discovered her seven years ago. Read Lil’ Wayne’s words and watch Nicki Minaj’s interview with TIME below.
Click here for the full TIME 100 list that also includes Kendrick Lamar, Stephen Curry, and more.
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Cover story by Lil’ Wayne:
“You know, in New York they used to have these street DVDs. It just so happened that I appeared in one, and when I looked at the finished product, Nicki Minaj was on a part of the DVD. I was like, “Woooooow!” She was just being Nicki without the glitz and glamour. When I heard the first two and four bars, it wasn’t even about her rapping better than any female rapper. It was about, man, she’s rapping better than other rappers—period.
I always wanted more for my artists and saw Nicki’s potential from the first moment I laid eyes on her. She’s reached far beyond everything I would have imagined. Man, she’s so influential and doing all the right things. She’s an icon, a boss and a role model to all these young girls out here on how to do it the right way. Her work ethic speaks volumes and has yielded these results. The scary thing is she’s still going. Ha! Nicki Minaj will go down as one of the best to do it in the history of music.”
