CNN —While she may be promoting her forthcoming studio album “Pink Friday 2,” Nicki Minaj is on the cover of Vogue in cream — a delicately draped Valentino couture gown, that is. Minaj has previously been featured on the covers of the Arabian and Japanese editions of Vogue (in 2018 and 2019, respectively), but the December issue of US Vogue is marks her stateside debut. Nicki Minaj poses on the cover of US Vogue's December 2023 issue. Norman Jean Roy/Vogue“There’s a freeness that you have around you when you’re at your best, when you’re doing your thing at your peak,” Minaj told the magazine. “That’s the thing that’s changed in me.

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