By papa keith Nicki Minaj's “Anaconda” surpassed one billion YouTube views! Nicki is the first female rapper to have a solo song accomplish this, as she joins Katy Perry and Rihanna as the only other female artist to have six music videos with more than a billion views. “Anaconda” premiered with 19.6 million views in less than 24 hours. “I wanted to reinstate something,” she said. “Because of the shift in pop culture, even Hip Hop men are really glorifying the less curvy body. I wanted to say, ‘Hey ladies, you’re beautiful. Hopefully, this changes things and maybe it won’t change things, but I love it.”