Shock! Nicki Minaj dropped the trailer to her upcoming six-part docuseries, which guarantees to function all of the highs and lows of her life – in addition to the love she’s discovered along with her husband, Kenneth Petty.
“You don’t get a handbook on the right way to be a well-known rapper,” Nicki Minaj says at first of the trailer for Nicki, which she shared on Thursday (July 28). “You simply be taught because it goes.” From there, the two-minute clip reveals Nicki, 39, all through her profession, together with some private highs (her sharing an intimate second along with her husband and father of her baby, Kenneth Petty) and lows. “I might medicate myself and inform myself it’s okay. However when the excessive comes down, when you're simply centered on the enterprise, you possibly can lose your self,” she says.
Coming SOON!!!! The #NickiDocumentary you didn’t know you wanted. Love you a lot. 😘🫶🏽🎀💕🦄 pic.twitter.com/KbOY5fPU0s
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) July 28, 2022
After footage of Nicki and Kenneth, 44, seem collectively, she breaks out a notepad to jot down. “I turned the strongest I’ve ever been in my life. After which I simply began rapping. I nonetheless can bear in mind the nice feeling, and the second once I wished the night time to final without end. I've to make music with the intention to keep sane.”
“Popping out SOONER THANK YOU THINK,” Nicki wrote when sharing the trailer to Instagram. “I took a while to good this very intimate, delicate, electrifying, inspiring physique of labor. As I resolve on a house for this undertaking, I can’t assist however replicate on what I’m together with on this doc. Some issues are so private, it’s scary. It’s like NOTHING you’ve seen earlier than & I want it to be dealt with with care. Love you a lot. Thanks for the continued help.”
Initially introduced in November 2020, the six-part half-hour docuseries was initially set for HBO Max (the trailer didn’t state whether or not or not the collection would air on the streaming service.) The intimate look into Nicki’s life is directed by Michael John Warren, per Deadline, who made his directorial debut with 2004’s Jay-Z: Fade To Black. The docuseries is produced by Bron Life, the non-scripted division of Bron Studios, the Canadian firm behind Joker, Queen & Slim, Bombshell, Judas, and the Black Messiah, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Nicki Minaj, Michael John Warren, Aaron L. Gilbert, Brenda Gilbert, Cassandra Butcher, Irving Azoff and Tommy Bruce (in affiliation with Inventive Wealth Media) are the collection’ government producers.
“I really like that this collection not solely gives an all-access glimpse at one of the iconic musicians of our era; it additionally profiles the courageous lady behind the artist, Onika,” Warren stated, per Deadline. “I imagine all of us can be taught an awesome deal from her outstanding skilled and private life. It’s an honor to be entrusted with this dynamic story.”
“Nicki Minaj is among the most necessary and influential recording artists of all time; by no means to be duplicated – and plenty of have tried. We're proud to help this residing icon, as she bravely opens her dwelling to the world,” added Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert and Brenda Gilbert.