Nicki Minaj Tells MTV Documentary Crew About Her Hardened Life of Crime
In a new documentary,Â Nicki Minaj reveals just how far she had to go to live day-to-dayÂ before she made it to stardom. In MTVâsÂ My Time Again,Â MinajÂ tells how she had to steal everything from bread to panties to survive.âWhen I was a waitress at Red Lobster, I had to steal bread to eat from work,â said Minaj. âIâd stuff some biscuits into my apron, then Iâd hide in a bathroom stall and stuff them into my face as fast as I could.Â They ended up firing me after a while. Not for the bread thing, though. Actually, thatâs a pretty common thing for waitresses at most restaurants to do. They actually fired me because I was a rude bitch to customers. I lost about 15 jobs that way, no shit.âMinaj, who nowÂ has her own line of branded clothing at K-Marts across the country, says the thinks itâs âsuper ironicâ that all these years later her face would be plastered throughout the stores.âItâs funny how my life has turned around. I used to shoplift all my clothesÂ from K-Mart, and now I have my own clothing line there. My face is all over the stores, but this time itâs on posters out front, not just on little Polaroids and blurry camera footage in the security office out back. I tell you, though, I had to swipe them. AÂ girl goes through a hell of a lot of clothes trying to figure out the best way to look like youâre not wearing any clothes.âMinaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj,Â says that although she may have had to resort to a life of crime growing up, she hopes that her fans donât make the same mistakes.âOf course I would never encourage any of my young fans to follow in my footsteps. On the other hand, my older fans can do whatever they want. But if youâre gonna shoplift, make sure you donât get caught!âLater, Minaj explains to the documentary crewÂ about how she turned her life around before it was too late.âI realized I didnât want to be an alcoholic like my dad, wearing cheap lingerie or whatever. I needed to get serious about my career. Thatâs when I got on MySpace. Nothing says âserious about your careerâ like a MySpace Music page. I guess it paid off, though. I got signed, I got off the streets. I didnât have to sell my poon for money like a lot of friends I had growing up. Plus, I got to stop stuffing my face with stolen bread. Life just kind of fell into place after that.âThe documentary premiers on MTV January 18th at 10 PM, andÂ is said to be an extremely intimate look into the superstarâs life.Â Â