Watch the trailer for Nicki Minaj’s upcoming docuseries ‘Nicki’

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Nicki Minaj has shared the first trailer for her eponymous docuseries Nicki, a six-part event that will chronicle the rapper’s meteoric rise to stardom in the 2010s.The trailer features a litany of notable quotes from Minaj, opening with the declaration that “you don’t get a manual on how to be a famous rapper – you just learn it as you go”.

Reflecting on her roots as an up-and-coming rapper in the mid-2000s, she continues: “I think the woman [I was] back then, she wasn’t afraid to fail.

Female rappers weren’t really charting at the time… I’m fighting for the girls who never thought they could win.”We also learn that Minaj never sought out the spotlight, as she says of her initial ambitions: “I never wanted to be mainstream – mainstream came to be.” But an equally large focus in the six-part Nicki series seems to be the struggles that Minaj has faced as a woman in the hip-hop scene, with the rapper noting that she “simply [doesn’t] get the respect that men do”.“This industry is just not a loving [or] supportive place,” Minaj says later in the trailer. “It pretends sometimes, but it’s just not.” She went on to address her drug use as a coping mechanism, saying that she “could medicate myself and tell myself it’s okay, but when the high comes down, you’re still there”, and noted that after taking a break from music after 2018’s ‘Queen’, she “became the strongest I have ever been in my life”.It also looks as though the series will touch on the making of Minaj’s upcoming fifth album, as the trailer ends with the rapper saying: “I have to make music in order to stay sane”.Check out the first trailer for Nicki below:Coming SOON!!!!