Nicki Minaj talks 'Anaconda' music video controversy: 'It's just cheeky, like a funny story'

Nicki Minaj got "cheeky" with GQ magazine about her "Anaconda" video.

"I don't know what there is to really talk about," she said, referring to the controversy that the bootylicious music video caused.

"I'm being serious. I just see the video as being a normal video," the Queens, N.Y.-born rapper insisted, adding how there's no hidden meaning involved in the video's booty-poppin', banana-eating, lap dance-giving antics.

"I think the video is about what girls do," Minaj continued. "Girls love being with other girls, and when you go back to us being younger, we would have slumber parties and we'd be dancing with our friends."

up the banana," she said in the November issue of the mag that hits newsstands Oct. 28. "Did you realize that? At first I'm being sexual with the banana, and then it's like, 'Ha-ha, no.'

"That was important for us to show in the kitchen scene, because it's always about the female taking back the power," the "Bang Bang" rapper explained. "If you want to be flirty and funny that's fine, but always keeping the power and the control in everything."

Minaj hasn't always had control over everything in her life. Prior to her rise to fame, she was a waitress at Red Lobster and that didn't finish well.

"(She) followed a couple who had taken her pen into the parking lot and then flipped them the bird," GQ writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner detailed about why the "Super Bass" rapper was fired from that gig.

The platinum-selling artist knew early on that customer service wasn't her calling.

"I like dealing with people, but I don't really like a lot of bulls-t," she said about briefly working as a customer service representative for a New York City company. "So maybe customer service wasn't the best job for me."

These days she sticks to what she does best -- keeping folks on their toes.

"I always thought that by the time I put out a third album, I would want to come back to natural hair and natural makeup," she said about her previously outlandish, often cartoonish looks.

"I thought, I will shock the world again and just be more toned down. I thought that would be more shocking than to keep on doing exactly what they had already seen."