She bursts through the glossy veneer of the celebrity industrial complex, wrests control of the narrative, calls bullshit on the rhetoric and mechanisms that would frame her as unruly, acting out, overly aggressive. Because Minaj is not, in fact, too slutty—or too rude, or too weird, or too manipulative. She simply has something that’s long been inaccessible for female celebrities, and black ones in particular: total control.
