“Just as a black woman and being a part of Hip-Hop, I always feel like I’m at the bottom of the totem pole — at the bottom of every totem pole really– in terms of proving yourself, in terms of showing that you’re intelligent and you can carry on a conversation and you can speak about many different topics. So I felt like I was representing for rap and then black women and then women in general.”

Nicki Minaj to Queen Latifah on The Queen Latifah Show about being a judge on American Idol