Nicki Minaj offers career advice to young Americans, delivers blunt response to Trump critics

Rapper Nicki Minaj shared her career advice to young Americans entering the workforce and fiercely defended her support of President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with "The Ingraham Angle" on Friday.The music mogul opened up about her journey to the top, explaining how she hustled her way from serving biscuits at Red Lobster to dominating music charts around the world and collaborating with some of the biggest names in Hollywood."I did customer service for telephone companies.I was a telemarketer.

I sold fire extinguishers.I did everything," Minaj shared with Fox News.NICKI MINAJ, ANNA NICOLE SMITH AND MORE STARS WHO GOT THEIR START WAITING TABLES AT RED LOBSTERMinaj has supported the Trump administration's efforts to stop Christian persecution in Nigeria.

(Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images via Getty Images)MARY J BLIGE CREDITS FAITH, PASTORS WITH CONFRONTING HER PRIDE AS SHE TOOK CONTROL OF HER CAREER"What I would tell young people is: This is not the best part of your life, but it is probably one of the most important parts of your life," she said.Minaj said the lessons she learned, as well as the values she developed while doing "nitty-gritty" work, before money and international success, remain central to how she conducts business today."The things that I learned during that time in my life, it still helps me today," the rapper explained."All the people skills, and the communication skills, and all the problem-solving that I learned then, it still applies now when I'm around superstars or rich people.""All of those skills, they carry over into the rest of your life.

So don't look at that part of your life as something that you can't wait to fly by because… you might not be making the biggest money, but you're doing the real nitty-gritty work that is going to help you for the rest of your life," Minaj added.Trinidadian-US rapper Nicki Minaj speaks during the panel discussion "Combatting Religious Violence and the Killing of Christians in Nigeria" a...