Nicki Minaj talks about abortion in the January issue of Rolling Stone. The “Anaconda” singer, who graces the cover, shared a personal story from her days as a teenager. Minaj also talks about her new album The Pinkprint and refers to Kanye West.

Sharing her abortion story, Minaj revealed that she had dated an older guy from Queens while attending Manhattan’s performing arts high school LaGuardia. When she discovered she was pregnant, she admitted, “I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through.”

Nicki Minaj had the abortion. Now 32, she shared it was a decision that has “haunted me all my life.”

The former “American Idol” judge rapped about her experience in a mixtape track called “Autobiography”, which she “didn’t expect anyone to hear.”

Now that she’s famous she realizes it’s a challenge to keep things private.

“Millions of people are gonna hear it. And you gotta watch everything you say — people find an issue with every f*cking thing.”

Nicki Minaj sings about abortion in her new album The Pinkprint. In her new song “All Things Go” she raps, “My child with Aaron would’ve been 16 any minute.”

With The Pinkprint, she said, “One of my goals was to give people a glimpse into my personal life, because it’s something I’ve kept very private.”

It was just in an interview published last month that she said she hoped to be a mom in the near future.

She shared, “If I’m done with my fifth album and I don’t have a child by then, no matter how much money I have, I would be disappointed, as a woman because I feel like I was put here to be a mother.”

In her interview she also mentions Kanye West as an example of a black artist getting shut down after speaking up against injustice. She referred to when West said former President Bush didn’t “care about black people” during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

She said, “I feel like when Public Enemy were doing ‘Fight the Power,’ we as a culture had more power — now it feels hopeless. People say, ‘Why aren’t black celebrities speaking out more?’ But look what happened to Kanye when he spoke out. People told him to apologize to Bush!”

Nicki Minaj telling her abortion story has shown her vulnerable side. She said, “It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.”

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