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Nicki Minaj Channels Her Inner Adele in Carpool Karaoke with James Corden

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Nicki Minaj Channels Her Inner Adele in Carpool Karaoke with James Corden

After a two-year long gap, James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke video series is back with Nicki Minaj. She was riding with The Late Late Show host in the passenger seat, Minaj began her 17-minute long carpool karaoke session by rapping “Anaconda” alongside host. “You see how meaningful the words are,” Minaj said after the song, in a Roman’s Revenge-era British accent. James Corden called her out on it, telling her that her British accent sounds like British singer Adele. He then asked her to do an Adele impression.

“I go viral for basically anything,” joked Minaj in her best Adele voice, before recreating the viral meme of Adele ignoring the camera while sitting front row at a Lakers game. Adele loomed large over Minaj’s carpool karaoke experience: Minaj and Corden dove into Minaj’s iconic “Monster” verse, which Adele famously also rapped during her edition of Carpool Karaoke, and Minaj and Corden even sang a bit of Adele’s “Someone Like You” a cappella.

After explaining to Corden what the term “opp” meant—it’s slang for “opposition”—and determining that Corden’s neighbor’s dog would not be considered one of his “opps,” Minaj and Corden broke into a rousing rendition of her pop hit “Super Bass.” Corden then challenged Minaj to freestyle about their carpool ride as he beat-boxed along, to hilarious results. “I thought we were done. We were doing it for fun. I just pushed out my son. James don’t be dumb,” rapped Minaj over Corden’s mediocre beatboxing. “I never felt that white in my life,” Corden admitted after the failed experiment.

Minaj also opened up about her struggles with confidence after sharing with Corden that she chews on ice to manage her anxiety. “I think when I was younger, my more natural state was to be more confident. But when you’re a woman and you’re in the public eye all the time ,if you’re not careful, you can become less confident because you’re being constantly scrutinized,” she said. “I just don’t think it’s natural. It’s not natural for human beings to always feel like everyone’s critiquing them.”