UPDATE
Nicki Minaj called up The Breakfast Club to speak about her absence at this year’s Summer Jam and the special guests she intended on bringing out.
“We had an amazing, amazing show and that was the only disappointing thing. You want to know what the funny thing is? After all this has been said and done, I wasn’t going to [perform] “Starships” and I think people know that. I mean, I’m way smarter than that and I know what people wanted to see. I think it was just someone trying to be sarcastic but like you said, like I said, like everyone else, every other artist said, the timing was in bad taste and everybody makes mistakes but you got to own your mistake and that’s the problem. When you don’t own it, then people feel like, Ooo ok, well you feel like you can do this in the future and get away with it, that’s a problem.”
Listen to the rest of Nicki’s interview below.
Nicki Minaj’s beef with Hot 97 continued this morning as she hit up rival station Power 105.1fm to speak to Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne of The Breakfast Club about the weekend incident. During the brief call to the station, she addressed rumors that she was planning to have a funeral for Lil Kim during her stage show as well as Lil Kim’s claims of her only snagging Foxy Brown for her show after Lil Kim reunited with Missy Elliott and Eve for a show the week prior. She also revealed she wasn’t expecting nor did she care to receive an apology from Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg and that the issue went far beyond her being disrespected as the only female on the bill.
Check out excerpts from the interview below:
On whether she really planned on performing ‘Starships’ that nightListen to the interview below:
After all was said in done, I wasn’t going to do ‘Starships” and I think people know that, I mean I’m way smarter than that. I know what people wanted to see and I think it was just someone trying to be sarcastic, but like you said, it was horrible timing, it was in bad taste and everybody makes mistakes but you’ve got to own your mistake.
On other celebrities who have been supportive ever since the incident
We all salute Lauryn [Hill]! She gave an amazing statement about this whole thing and no one has said anything. Nas retweeted that and no one has said anything, [Fabolous] tweeted last night and you know him and [Foxy Brown] showed me so much love.
On linking up with Foxy Brown
I reached out to her a few months ago […] [Foxy Brown] has always been a part of my line up and I’ve known I was doing summer Jam for maybe a year now, so people are very crazy to think that this is something that I just decided to do. I’ve just always really loved her. I’ve always made it known how much I loved her and Lauryn Hill, and so when she found out about the drama, I thought she was going to be disappointed but instead she called me and was like ‘Yo Nick, I am riding with you, we are all here and were not leaving this hotel, we support your decision”, and that was how we all went out. Everyone came out to dinner with me that night and everyone supported the decision. Everyone was like. ‘Yo, Wayne was completely right and we made the right move.’
On whether she was really going to have a staged funeral for Lil Kim at the Summer Jam
[DJ Envy], I don’t even want you to finish that sentence because that’s not in my character and that’s ridiculous. Lets stop with all the rumors that are giving people false hope that they are relevant please. I’m not about to bring death on my stage, my stage is about life and love and that’s it, PERIOD. It was about us bigging up each other, myself and Foxy. No one, who is irrelevant was going to be made relevant on my stage.
On pulling the female card
I’m not using the female card. I am a female. Like, it is what it is, and like I said last night, you should think before you pass the only woman on the bill, something should have kicked in and said ‘You know what? Wow! This girl I may not like one or two of her songs but she is holding it down for every woman in Hip Hop right now at this moment’ and if you don’t understand that or respect that you are freaking stupid.
On whether she’s wants an apology from Peter Rosenberg
No, no, no, I don’t want an apology, I don’t care about an apology. the only thing I cared about was handling my business last night because Flex is right, I do handle my own I don’t ask anyone to speak for me and I typically go at things like a boss and what people don’t understand is that, me having loyalty to Wayne and Young Money and Cash Money that is a boss move and if you don’t have loyalty to your family, you will never understand what is to be a boss.
No one has the right to treat you like this. I don’t care who you are, and if you are working at a freaking top company and it doesn’t have anything to do with music and if you are walking into the boardroom and you are the only female in there and you hear men making fun of you and insulting you, you’re not going to walk into that room. You’re going to say, ‘you know what! check yourself and get your sh-t together because I’ve put my work in at this company just like every man here and until you can respect me, I’m not even sitting in that room’.
People were saying well you should have still walked on that stage and showed them, I don’t have to show them anyone sh-t, I don’t have to show sh-t, that’s one thing and its not happening anymore. I’m going to show you by what I don’t do. And what I don’t do is perform at a place where people don’t respect me. If the fans say one thing then let the fans say it but you don’t interject that thought into peoples minds before I come on stage.
Bonus Track: Charlamagne makes ‘Funkmaster Flex’ The Donkey Of The Day
**UPDATE** Lauryn Hill Speaks Out On Nicki Minaj vs. Hot 97 Summer Jam Drama
It’s not often that we get to hear from Lauryn Hill, however, the chain of events that happened over the weekend between Hot 97 and Nicki Minaj at Summer Jam definitely didn’t sit too well with her. Lauryn Hill hopped on twitter today, to clear up rumors that she was initially suppose to come out on stage as part of Nicki Minaj’s set, as well as to state her two cents on everything that transpired. She wrote:
No disrespect to Nicki, but I need to clear up an inaccuracy. I was not scheduled to be a special guest on her set at Summer Jam, I was invited by Nas to perform with him. I don’t have details on exactly what transpired between the station and the artists, but I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. We can do better than this, there is a better way, or else ‘we’ (the proverbial we) find ourselves in danger of being hypocrites!!!
Ms. Lauryn Hill
So eloquently said.
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