Cover Trends: Nicki Minaj’s Stripes It Up For Complex

29-year-old rapper Nicki Minaj has never been one to shy away from stepping outside the norm or being outlandish just for the fun of it.

Her delightfully controversial performance at this year’s Grammy’s coupled with her penchant for producing music videos that even BET can’t mess with, has put in a league of her own and made her the kind of artist that pop icon Madonna does want to mess with. And that speaks volumes about how far Minaj has come in so short a time.

She talks all about her trek from the land of mixtapes to platinum territory in the new issue of Complex Magazine, which is coincidently celebrating its 10^th Anniversary.

What better way to do it up than feature a stunning pictorial of the hottest female MCs in the business.

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