The first time I saw Nicki Minaj was when I'd just returned from Japan and saw her music video Check It Out on MTV. This was in the early 2010s and I'd been out of the loop for a while with living abroad and didn't know anything about her. The song was set to the melody of The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star", which immediately reminded me of my childhood playing the 80s themed GTA Vice City, and Nicki was dressed up in some colorful futuristic suit and singing some goofy lyrics. I just thought that she was some unique eccentric artist with a certain quality of flamboyance that I found endearing.
Anyway, I saw Nicki for the first time in the above music video and found her phenotype fascinating -- a short-statured (5'2"), mixed Black girl (Trinidadian, half-Black half-Indian), with a cute face with a certain unique quality, and more importantly, big round titties, wide hips and a large phat booty*. Add to that her bubbly personality and charisma and I was mesmerized!
*I'm a high-test male; I see phat booty and it just drives me crazy!
However, watching more of Nicki's music videos and looking through her photos for fap material, I soon discovered that Nicki's big phat budonkadonk was fake (enhanced with butt implants -- this is obvious when you see her ass from the side protruding massively above her skinny little legs).
Not only that, her music was actually not just quirky innocent fun like I'd previously assumed but rather full of vulgarity and, as we can see in retrospect, even pioneered a new phase of the degeneration of modern music with trashy lyrics and even the promotion of drug use corrupting the youth. Now I'm not a prude but I'd rather that stuff not become mainstream.
Some Nicki Minaj music videos showing off her bootylicious hotness:
As for her music, I find some of it quite interesting and with a good flow (she's definitely a talented lyricist and has charisma) but a lot of her more well-known stuff is undeniably trashy and vulgar.
Here is a less well-known Nicki song that I think is really good and showcases her talent:
However, enough of the eulogy, in the late 2010s I stumbled across a video asserting that Nicki is actually not a real woman but in fact a deep-stealth transformer!!!
I can't find the video today (I think it was pulled from the internet) but it was made by a Caribbean dude who showed various images of Nicki and argued that she was a "built-up man" (read in a Jamaican accent) and "a transformer". In fact, @WanderingProtagonist, that's where I first got the word "transformer" from and it's stuck with me since. LMAO!
I'd love to be able to find the original video again (which was fcukin' hilarious, btw) but it's completely disappeared. However, I did find another more recent one arguing the same point:
In the following photo, the one on the left is supposed to be Nicki back when she was still a little gayboy and before she got on the p***y pill hoe-moans and had her various Tgurl surgeries:
I'm shocked!!!
Anyway, regardless of whether or not Nicki really is a transformer, there is quite an interesting teachable moment here -- perception is deception, and we ourselves often play along in deceiving ourselves.
In my own mind I had constructed the idea that Nicki was the perfect woman from an aesthetic standpoint, yet everything about her is based on false perception and a carefully crafted illusion. That's the case whether it be her fake ass, her fake titties, her bleached skin, or even possibly her falsified gender (according to some).
But if Nicki were real -- a real ass built with nothing more than excellent booty genetics and heavy squats (and thick legs too), real light skin, etc. -- she'd come close to being my aesthetic ideal for a light-skinned Black booty girl.
But alas I'm deceived by perception. 
