Nicki Minaj has revealed that she’s not a fan of the venerated music magazine, Billboard, for their seemingly arbitrary enforcement of rules regarding a fan contest for her new album, Pink Friday 2.
Taking to Twitter on Thursday (December 14), the head Barb launched into a multi-tweet tirade about the music magazine. According to Minaj, Billboard allegedly threatened to “take sales away” from her for asking her fanbase for proof that they’d purchased her new album as part of a promotional effort.
“been discussing my 100 barbz contest for months. they said billboard reached out to say they gon take away sales for me telling y’all about the 100 barbz thing,” she began. “Can’t wait until these next 6 hours are up so I can tell y’all some shit. You can give out millions in cashapp money tho. Lol.
“So barbz, me asking you to show PROOF of something that was already DELIVERED OR PURCHASED IS AGAINST THE RULES. SO pls disregard. Apologies.”
Minaj then implied that Billboard was one of her “enemies”: “Threatening me…like what? Huh? You don’t scare me. Take away all the sales y’all want. I’ve never not ended up feeling sorry for my enemies. Read that line again. God is in control.
“They so mad,” she continued. “They said 170-190 knowing it was 200K alrdy. Then they said 199 just so that 2 wouldn’t leave they mouf chi. It’s at 300 but once they filter out 100K, you’ll be none the fkng wiser. I’m being punished for: Not signing a 360, Making great music, Having great fans, And for not leaving the game so that their new Nicki’s (who signed 360 deals) can be propped up to look as tho they are a lot more successful than they rlly are. Having too much power #PinkFriday2 Where’s my album link guys?”
Nicki Minaj calls out Billboard for interfering with fan contest https://t.co/3Yh0bOWXIA pic.twitter.com/wbT9BwfXmp
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) December 15, 2023
Nicki Minaj has been more than a little punchy lately — though her latest “beef” with Joe Budden seemed to be all in good jest.
On Monday (December 11), the New York MC went live on Instagram to reveal that she was having a sit-down with the rapper-turned-podcaster, while playfully threatening to go off on him.
“This man always deserves a good cussing out from me,” she began. “Was I gonna cancel [the interview]? Sure! Was I gonna show up 10 hours late? Of course! But anything I have to do to cuss this muthafucka out right here…he always gon’ get his lashes from me.”
While the Slaughterhouse rapper laughed in the background, Nicki turned her front-facing smartphone over to him. Sitting across from her on the same couch, the camera captured him saying, “I love you guys” as her thick eyelash filter hilariously transferred over to his face.
The duo have expressed admiration for one another countless times in the past, but they haven’t always seen eye-to-eye. During a 2019 episode of Queen Radio, the platinum-selling rapper sat down with Budden and things didn’t exactly go as planned.
Over the conversation, they went back and forth about lies Budden allegedly told about Minaj over the years. Suddenly, the self-proclaimed Queen of Rap unleashed a verbal barrage on her guest after he insinuated that she took drugs.
“Don’t say you ain’t never popped a pill,” he said, to which she responded with a scream: “I never said that, you dumb fuck! Cut his fucking mic since you wanna be dumb!”
Sure enough, his microphone was ultimately cut off.
