Rapper Nicki Minaj has revealed that her mother has always been "overprotective" of her when it comes to dating. 

Speaking to GQ magazine recently, the 'Anaconda' beauty, who split from Safaree Samuels in late 2014 after 12 years of dating, explained that her mother was wary of her new boyfriend Meek Mill at first:

"My mother only knows Meek from what she sees in public, in the media. She's met him now, but she just wants to make sure he's a nice guy. She's overprotective of her daughter. Another thing people don't realise is I've only had three boyfriends in my whole life. I've never dated around ... I don't have a whole lot of experience in that department so my mother and my family were very like, 'What?'"

She went onto add that the women in her life were "scared" at the thought of her getting back into the dating scene at first:

"This is a big step, because they've only known one thing for over a decade. Even my pastor, who's like a second mother, was scared. Everybody was just scared. Those women were scared for me because when I love someone I really let them in, and I really let me guard down, and I think it's only natural for a mother to just you know, she just wanted to make sure I wasn't rushing into anything."

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