{"id":284991,"date":"2019-12-12T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1102375"},"modified":"2019-12-12T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:17:22","slug":"heres-what-nicki-minaj-really-thinks-about-retiring-from-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/heres-what-nicki-minaj-really-thinks-about-retiring-from-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What Nicki Minaj Really Thinks About Retiring From Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.931677018634\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019930\/rs_634x1024-191030124543-634x1024-nickiminaj-gj-10-30-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Nicki Minaj\" alt=\"Nicki Minaj\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Dia Dipasupil\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14.658064516129\">\n<p>Is she or is she not done with making music?!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nicki_minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a><\/strong> fans have been asking ever since the rapper announced on Twitter back in September that she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1070767\/nicki-minaj-says-she-s-retiring-from-music-to-have-my-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was retiring from music <\/a>to &#8220;focus on her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But as die-hard fans know, the artist ultimately released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/ap\/news\/1077303\/nicki-minaj-has-already-come-out-of-retirement-with-new-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new music <\/a>later in the same month.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s really going on?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love music and interacting with fans, so I can&#8217;t really see taking myself completely away,&#8221; she shared with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8545934\/nicki-minaj-game-changer-billboard-women-in-music-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billboard <\/a><\/em>in a new interview posted today. &#8220;But I want to be open to other possibilities in my life. I do believe it is important to become a woman outside of the magnifying glass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Nicki added, &#8220;I have to make sure that I&#8217;m well-rounded as a human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>For now, Nicki is focused on expanding her business empire that includes <em>Queen Radio<\/em>, a Fendi partnership and a liquor company.<\/p>\n<p>According to the businesswoman, it may just be the beginning of an unforgettable 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I plan on venturing out a million times more than I am now. That was always my goal: to become a big businesswoman. I don&#8217;t want to be in such a lucrative industry and not capitalize on it\u2014everyone else does it,&#8221; she shared with the publication. &#8220;[With Fendi], they ended up reaching out to my team to work on the collaboration after I put out [Queen single] \u2018Chun Li.&#8217; I was blown away and honored. I went to Milan and met with everyone there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.684931506849\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.89497716895\">\n<p>Nicki continued, &#8220;They allowed me to play with fabrics and look at what they were planning for their next line. I didn&#8217;t expect it to be this massive\u2014I&#8217;m really proud of it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And even if you were to put businesses aside, there&#8217;s a special someone making Nicki extra happy these days. Yes, it&#8217;s husband <strong>Kenneth Petty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very close as friends, &#8217;cause we&#8217;ve known each other since we were kids, but also, we&#8217;re so sexually attracted to each other,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1083639\/nicki-minaj-drops-a-major-hint-about-her-marriage-to-kenneth-petty?query=nicki%20minaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously shared <\/a>with E! News&#8217; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_sylvester\">Justin Sylvester<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;People can say all they want, &#8216;Love is not about looks,&#8217; or &#8216;Physical attraction&#8217;. Yeah right, if you&#8217;re not physically attracted to that person, bye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1102375\/here-s-what-nicki-minaj-really-thinks-about-retiring-from-music?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dia Dipasupil\/FilmMagic Is she or is she not done with making music?! That&#8217;s what Nicki Minaj fans have been asking ever since the rapper announced on Twitter back in September that she was retiring from music to &#8220;focus on her family.&#8221; But as die-hard fans know, the artist ultimately released new music later in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-09 04:20:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}