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"Nicki Minaj has described her role in Ice Age: Continental Drift as a &amp;quot;blessing and an honour&amp;quot;. The &amp;#039;Starships&amp;#039; singer said that joining Queen Latifah, Drake, Ray Romano and Denis Leary in the animated movie&amp;#039;s all-star cast was one of the great moments of her career.   &amp;quot;I just think it&amp;#039;s a blessing and an honour. And seriously, I can&amp;#039;t believe I&amp;#039;m in an Ice Age movie,&amp;quot; she said according to Flicks and Bits. &amp;quot;My nieces and my little brothers, they&amp;#039;re freaking out. They think I&amp;#039;m making it up. They won&amp;#039;t believe it until the movie comes out that I&amp;#039;m doing a voice in Ice Age 4.&amp;quot; Minaj added of the film&amp;#039;s cast: &amp;quot;Of course, Queen Latifah, I&amp;#039;ve looked up to her for so many years, she embodies everything that I&amp;#039;d like to do, you know? She went from acting, she does acting, animation voices - she&amp;#039;s everything to me.  &amp;quot;To be a part of something she&amp;#039;s a part of makes me very proud. Just working in that environment, the people on the movie were dope people. Everyone was so encouraging. When I was working on it I was like, &amp;#039;This is the best job in the world!&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Minaj also quipped that she could not pass up the chance to play a vain wooly mammoth. &amp;quot;Well, [my character] Steffie, she&amp;#039;s a cutesy little ladybug, and of course I call everyone ladybugs if I really love them. But of course she&amp;#039;s not a ladybug, she&amp;#039;s huge, but she&amp;#039;s so beautiful,&amp;quot; the star said.  &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a mammoth, she has blonde hair and she does really cute stuff with her hair. She does her lashes, she does stuff with mascara. And, you know, she&amp;#039;s cutesy! I think she&amp;#039;s great.&amp;quot; Ice Age: Continental Drift opens in the US and UK on July 13. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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