Nicki Minaj powerfully shut down her 'NYT' interview

Nearly every quote in the New York Times Magazine's new profile of Nicki Minaj is a triumph.

In the magazine's cover story, Nicki addresses everything from the racial undertones of her heated VMAs exchange with Miley Cyrus: "You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important?"

To body image and rap music: ‘‘Back in the day, in hip-hop, the thick girl was glorified. Now the rappers are dating skinny white women. So it’s almost like, ‘Wait a minute, who’s going to tell the thick black girls that they’re sexy and fly, too?’"

To women, money and relationships: ‘‘From early on in my life, I looked at a woman not having her money as the biggest curse...Now that I’m an adult, I realize that women stay whether a man’s rich or poor. It’s just a weakness.’’

But the blockbuster moment in the profile comes after the interviewer asks Nicki about the beef between Meek Mill and Drake. ‘‘I hate it,’’ she says. ‘‘It doesn’t make me feel good. You don’t ever want to choose sides between people you love. It’s ridiculous. I just want it to be over.’’

Then, the interviewer asked Nicki if there's a part of her personality ‘‘that thrives on drama."

"That’s disrespectful,’’ Minaj said, drawing herself up in the chair. "Why would a grown-a** woman thrive off drama?’’

‘What do the four men you just named have to do with me thriving off drama?’’ she asked. ‘‘Why would you even say that? That’s so peculiar. Four grown-a** men are having issues between themselves, and you’re asking me do I thrive off drama?’’

And in a moment that rarely makes it into celebrity profiles, let alone ones in the New York Times, we see Nicki chew the interviewer out for her question.

‘‘That’s the typical thing that women do. What did you putting me down right there do for you?’’ she asked. ‘‘Women blame women for things that have nothing to do with them. I really want to know why — as a matter of fact, I don’t. Can we move on, do you have anything else to ask?’’ she continued. ‘‘To put down a woman for something that men do, as if they’re children and I’m responsible, has nothing to do with you asking stupid questions, because you know that’s not just a stupid question. That’s a premeditated thing you just did.’’

She called me ‘‘rude’’ and ‘‘a troublemaker,’’ said ‘‘Do not speak to me like I’m stupid or beneath you in any way’’ and, at last, declared, ‘‘I don’t care to speak to you anymore.’’

Interview over.

Cheers to Nicki for putting the interviewer—and anyone else who unfairly calls Nicki a drama queen for her non-role in the arguments of the grown men around her—in her place. And cheers to the New York Times for running it all.

Earlier, the interview cites an MTV documentary of Nicki defending her high standards for her work, where she claims she'll walk out of a photo shoot when all she's provided is ‘"a $50 clothes budget and some sliced pickles." What the profile leaves out is her rationale why.

“Is that wrong? For wanting more for myself, wanting people to treat me with respect?” she says in the doc. “But you know what? Next time, they know better. But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.”

(Warning: explicit language)

Nicki not accepting the pickle juice, Exhibit A: this interview.