“I went back to the old game plan”- Nicki Minaj as she details Pink Friday 2 creative process

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Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj’s latest music album reflects the rapper’s original game plan according to her.

The US-based Trinidadian-born rapper, singer and songwriter disclosed this during an interview with Vogue as she narrated the creative process of her latest project.

According to her, she went back to her proverbial roots while creating the new album as she said that she sometimes cannot find her true self in some of the music she creates.

Nicki said, “When I look back at a lot of my music, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, where was the me in it? So for this album, I went back to the old game plan.”

“The idea that saying something like that, I’m fighting for the girls who never thought they could win, from I’m The Best on Pink Friday 2 could give hope to people — that optimistic outlook is something I think I got away from.”

In the same interview, the 40-year-old rapper narrated how she was prescribed Percocet for menstrual pain and quickly became hooked while comparing her situation to other high profile figures who have had drug issues.

While Nicki is said to have previously discussed rumors of her drug use in 2021 and denied ever using cocaine, she, in her Vogue interview also addressed her family’s history of substance abuse, with her father suffering from crack cocaine addiction while she was a child.

She said, “No one told me that this was a narcotic and this was addictive,” Minaj said. “Luckily I was able to ground myself. But — once an addict, always an addict. I feel like if you’ve ever experienced addiction to anything, which I have, you always have to think twice and three times about the choices that you make.”

She continued, “Look at some of our biggest celebrities. They eventually either get laughed out of wanting to go outside anymore, like Michael Jackson, or criticized, like Whitney Houston, or they fight silent battles, like Prince.

“These are some of the greatest of all time. And one day they decided, ‘You know what? I’d rather self-medicate and be in my own world.’”

Recalling her prior discussion on drugs, he was quoted as saying: “I have never, ever in my life, with my hand to Jesus Christ…Never in my life, ever, not even once, sniffed coke — ever! That’s just never been my drug of choice,” she said on Instagram Live. “You would know, if you’re a fan of mine, that all you gotta do if you wanna know my drug of choice or my drugs of choice, just listen to my music, chile, ’cause it’s all right there.”

“I think about watching my father go back and forth, and I just wish that at the time I understood that he wasn’t doing it because he wanted to,” she said. “I thought that he was making a conscious effort to be addicted to a drug that would have him steal his children’s video games and sell them for money.

“Think about that — who would make a conscious effort to do that? Now I realize, those people weren’t making those choices because they wanted to hurt their family. Addiction took over their bodies and their lives. They were victims too.”