Nicki Minaj’s does good work repeating her own lyrics back to herself in “Freedom,” but in the video she’s rocking looks we’ve never seen before.
The clip starts out in black and white, and transitions into color (get it? Freedom from the confines of black and white? Or something? Anyway) as Minaj poses elegantly against Noah’s Arc to mansion banisters to modern sculpture. It’s the rapper-singer through the ages, an eternal beauty proudly hocking her wares from Macy’s.
One repeating motif in this epic is Minaj’s inability to quit touching her hair. Her many wigs are no match for wandering fingertips, but frankly, if I had that many weaves, I’d be poking at ’em too.
Minaj performed a chilly rendition of “Freedom” at last night’s American Music Awards, as it’s one of the new tracks off of her “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up.” It hit stores today (Nov. 19).