Nicki Minaj opens up about her violent past

Nicki Minaj got candid like never before in her upcoming documentary, Queen, reports, EOnline.com. The Barbie Tingz rapper shared two clips from the autobiographical project, revealing a tumultuous childhood that eventually impacted her to a point where a past relationship that became “violent” and almost threatened her own identity. 

“Maybe some people would describe me as abrasive or bitchy or whatever because I vowed from that age no man would ever abuse me, call out my name or treat me like that,” she described as tears rolled down her face. “Then all of a sudden, that was my life.”  

The rapper also recalled trying to save her mother from a physically abusive father. 

Nicki revealed that the abuse robbed her of any motivation to make music, explaining, “Who was I going to inspire when I had nothing in me to give? I let one human being make me so low, that I didn’t even remember who I was. I was scared to get in the studio. I didn’t believe in myself.”