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Nicki Minaj 'offended' by comparisons to Lady Gaga

by theGrio | April 9, 2012 at 6:33 PM
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Nicki Minaj is sick of all the Lady Gaga comparisons and she’s not afraid to say it. Despite her similarly flamboyant oufits and increasingly theatrical stage shows, Minaj says it “irks” her when people put her in the same lane as Gaga. E! Online reports:

Don’t call her Gaga Reloaded.

Nicki Minaj, whose performance at the Grammys this year was meant to shock and get people talking (let’s see, where have we seen that before…), didn’t appear to take kindly during her sit-down with Nightline to questions about the inevitable comparisons made between her and Lady Gaga.

At least, the interviewer certainly seemed to think the comparison was inevitable.

“Offends me, no. Irks me, yes,” Minaj said when ABC’s Juju Chang asked if the Lady Gaga comparisons do, indeed, offend the similarly flamboyant hip-hop star. “We are in completely different lanes.”

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