Last night, August Alsina’s video for “No Love (Remix)” featuring Nicki Minaj dropped. To promote the video, Nicki shared a bunch of photos of her video wardrobe, including this cutout vest and skirt.
The vest appears to be made of straight-up metal, which, considering Nicki’s affinity for chain mail, isn’t that surprising, but that skirt? That’s an entirely new approach to cutouts.
The skirt is made up of two panels of white fabric joined together by some pretty sparse netting. It is remarkably high-waisted considering how barely existent it is—there is, like, one inch of skin between the top of the skirt and the bottom of her white crop top.
But(t), of course, in typical Nicki fashion, there is more to this outfit than immediately meets the eye. Much like her tiny turtleneck from over the weekend, this skirt reveals an entirely unexpected element from certain angles.
See? Were you expecting that? I wasn’t, TBH. Does this really count as a skirt anymore? To me, this feels like there’s more of an absence of fabric. When does a skirt lose its identity, y’know?
You can watch Nicki and her cage skirt in all their glory below!
Beyoncé invited Nicki Minaj to join her on stage in Paris last week to perform their “Flawless (remix)” live for the first time, and fans weren’t the only ones freaking out when the Young Money rapper stepped onto the stage.
It was the final stop on Jay Z and Beyonce’s On the Run Tour, and the gravity of that wasn’t lost on Nicki.
“It was very emotional for me to be there because it was a big show, the last big Beyonce and Jay Z [show] so I was very honored to be a part of it,” she said during an interview with Paris radio station SkyRock FM.
“To me, they represent drive and passion and they represent everything that I would like to be, in terms of being an artist and a businesswoman at the same time,” Nicki added.
The “Anaconda” rapper said she was so surprised by the crowd’s warm reaction when she walked out on stage, that now she’s really looking forward to performing in Paris when her tour starts up early next year.
“They were so loud and I really wasn’t expecting that. I couldn’t hear the music, I couldn’t hear myself when I first came out,” she said. “It made me feel great, it made me want to come back with my own tour, which we’re doing at the top of the year. I can’t wait to give fans a full show of my own.”
Paris, hope you’re ready for this.
