Nicki Minaj has already stolen the world’s attention with her record-breaking video for ‘Anaconda’ – effectively amping up the anticipation for her album The Pinkprint, set to be released next month.

Now, the New York emcee has appeared in a spread for GQ, posing with poodles and participating in an interview where she fell asleep four times. However, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner clarifies:

To be completely accurate, she never fell into actual REM sleep during our interview, but at four separate times she dozed off, her head jerking awake at just the moment it had started to dip. In between, she was what I could call low-key and reserved, because I am generous, but the picture looked like this: those eyelids, falling, falling over eyes that would cross momentarily, closing for a moment but staying too long—a blink that lasted a few blinks longer than a blink.

Read the whole interview here, and check out the pics below: