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Young Money'southward first lady Nicki Minaj recently step forward to address past rumors of she and Hip Hop mogul Diddy were an item and how out of identify the gossip was in the new issue of BlackBook magazine.

The "Roman's Revenge" rapper said Diddy represents someone she looks upwards to, not a homo for having intimate relations with.

"God, no! It was so icky to me that people would fifty-fifty link me and him. I grew up watching him. I look at him like a Russell Simmons figure, definitely not as someone I'd exist getting information technology poppin' with."

Last year Nicki Minaj was forced to articulate the air on the alleged romance after photos of she and Diddy walking hand in hand landed online.

"[Dating Diddy?] That is, wait, can I just say, I hold everybody's hands! I concur my bodyguard'due south easily! Noooo [I'm not dating Diddy!] Listen, sometimes I think they know these things are false. But when people ask me, I think, 'I didn't fifty-fifty know I was gonna accept to even address that.' — when I'm set [to denote new direction], you'll know."

Earlier this week, the Immature Coin star talked well-nigh not pursuing love at this point in her career.

"I take no romance in my life at all, and information technology's not of import to me correct now. I have love for people who are on my team that I see every 24-hour interval and for my family unit, that's what makes me do what I do. I too have honey for people that I interact with. If I have too much of the romantic love, I experience like it volition distract me. Right now I feel similar a robot."

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