#whitleys

20/04

Nicki Minaj- "Stay in school"

I met Nicki Minaj yesterday!!!

I won two wristbands to meet her through a HMV competition that I applied for last week. Me & my friend Courtney decided to both apply and made a deal that if we won we'd take each other as we're both addicted to Roman Reloaded. I also did the same thing for Hackney Weekened- this method works! Try it when applying for shows/ meets/ prems.

I had college from 9-5 but left at 2.30 because I needed to be at the shopping centre for 5 as that's when we needed to collect our wristbands. Once we got our wristbands we had to join a queue to meet her. It didn't really hit us that we were going to meet her because we were tired from college and from queueing for a few hours.

Through the speakers of the shopping centre we heard the beginning of Roman's Holiday and everyone went crazy. The whole album played while we were waiting and we suddenly had so much more energy. It was quite amusing when 500+ people starting rapping the lyrics of Stupid Hoe. The thought of some random person walking past the queue totally oblivious that there's a Nicki Minaj signing with hundreds of fans shouting "you stupid hoe!" is quite funny. 

Nicki arrived but we couldn't really see anything due to how we were standing but the whole room lit up with flashes and screams of fans seeing their idols. We saw that people have started meeting her because we could see them crying as they were walking away but we still couldn't see her...

When there was only 10 people in front of us in the queue to meet her- our excitement builded up and a few minutes later WE WERE NEXT! Before we were allowed to see her the security told us that we weren't allowed phones or cameras so we put them away. I was a little disappointed because I wanted to film myself meeting her but that despair only lasted about a second because the next thing I knew I was walking up to her. 

I gave another security guard my album cover and he passed it on to Nicki. I was just staring at her in shock, I don't remember saying anything but I was just staring at her in amazement. She leant her hand out at me so I held it and she looked right into my eyes with her green contacts and said "stay in school". I literally nodded like a spaz and then noticed a few flashes to my left. I turned over and there were a few paparazzi's taking photo's of me meeting her and on my right theres a filmographer filming the whole meet. Nicki then handed back my album cover and about 3 security guys kept telling me to go so I stepped back while I was waiting for Courtney. If anyone finds the pics/ vids anywhere please message me! 

A few seconds later we met again and we walked away still star struck from meeting such an Iconic person. He then told me that he said "he LOVED her since beam me up scotty". + Nicki said "thank you" while holding his hand. + how he thought he sounded like they had a relationship and they broke up and she broke his heart. "I said I LOVED you to Nicki omggg" hahaha! 

Even though It was a really short meet, It was worth it and the three words she said to me "stay in school" really stuck with me and has motivated me to spend even more time than I already do- to do coursework.