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Nicki Minaj says music videos are a drag

US rapper Nicki Minaj often feels like "going to bed" instead of shooting her music videos.

The 'Starships' hitmaker is renowned for her glossy promos to accompany her smash hit songs, but admits she doesn't always feel in the mood for filming.

Minaj - who recently released her video for 'High School', featuring Lil Wayne - says spending so long in the make-up chair takes its toll at times.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, Minaj explained: "If I was a guy I'd love shooting a video, you just change your clothes and shoot it, but being a female, you don't. Sometimes I'm shooting a video and standing there for ten hours with my make-up on and it's not the best feeling in the world. Often I just want to wash my face and go to bed."

Minaj's mentor, Lil Wayne, features in her new sultry video, and the star has revealed she felt uneasy about the set-up at times.

However the superstar says the international rapper soon put her mind at ease with his unwavering sense of humour.

She explained: "Oh my goodness I [have] worked like that in every video I've done before, but not with him, not like that. This song is the first time it can be all about us and we have our own chemistry in the video. I asked him to play my love interest he said yes and I was freaking out.

She added: "It's not really raunchy maybe it's sexy, but it's not raunchy, it feels more like a movie. It feels very artsy, like lots of pictures in it and stuff. No, it wasn't a normal video for me, but he's such a jokester, he made me laugh all the time."

 

 

 

 

Watch the full 'High School' video below: