Nicki Minaj insists she wasn’t “angry” or “upset” once her album, Queen, debuted at No. 2, behind Travis Scott’s ASTROWORLD. And yet, as she says on The Ellen DeGeneres Show nowadays, the “Chun-Li” rapper felt like she “wanted to punch him in his f–king face” for claiming her spot.
“What square measure those emotions then, if it isn’t anger?” Ellen DeGeneres asks.
“It’s not anger: it’s what is right and what is wrong and what is honest,” says Minaj, who’s been declamation concerning Scott for over every week. “I’ve had a No. a pair of the album and that I ne’er cared. It’s simply that after you have a No. a pair of the album to somebody WHO is commercialism shirts and merch—and commercialism passes for a tour that may not be declared yet—it appears like you are being tricked. It appears like somebody is enjoying a game and beating you at a game hostile simply commercialism music. I need to sell music!”
Bundling album sales with merch has become a standard observe within the music business, adopted by artists like Christina Aguilera, Eminem, Ariana Grande…and even Minaj. Scott “sold plenty of T-shirts and sweaters and trip passes,” she said. “We’re not improving to have that!”
“He does not have the No. 1 album,” Minaj suggested. “Queen was the No. 1 album.”
Grande Sweetener is currently No. 1, followed by Scott ASTROWORLD (No. 2), Minaj’s Queen (No. 3), Drake’s Scorpion (No. 4) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & Bentleys (No. 5). Minaj additionally argued she lost out on “12 hours of sales” in her 1st week since Queen was a “secret” project.
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In essence, the “Bed” rapper feels Scott gamed the system, whereas she vies by the principles. “To even have that a lot of, to try and do such an enormous range, maybe a huge deal,” she said. “I wish to form positive I say this, as a result of generally individuals assume you are ungrateful, and I am the foremost grateful person in the world. Do I like being grateful and memory that things may be worse, OK? I started from nothing. I am one among those folks that…I get it. however, I do not like being afraid and that I don’t love being taken advantage of. generally, individuals use scare techniques against you as a result of they apprehend, particularly as a Negroid, individuals can decide you ‘angry’ or ‘bitter.’ So, currently, it’s virtually like we’re not allowed to defend ourselves or arise for ourselves. and I am not progressing to have that.”