From engaging in an X pat with Lil Nas X to calling out Drake, Baby Storme has been making waves all week and has recently labeled herself as an ex-best friend to Ice Spice. In her recent series of tweets, she took shots at Nicki Minaj after leaking an alleged exchange between her and Spice.
The alleged texts from Spice branded Minaj as ungrateful and delusional, claiming that she invited Minaj to collaborate on the title track for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. But according to the producers of the Barbie album, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Nicki Minaj Was the First Artist Approached by Greta Gerwig
In the alleged exchange, the New York artist claimed that Nicki Minaj attempted to take hold of most of Spice’s publishing rights over the song. Furthermore, the texts claimed that the Barbie producers initially wanted the Princess Diana rapper alone to perform Barbie World, stressing that it was Ice Spice who invited Minaj to collaborate on the title track.
But Kevin Weaver, one of the producers of the Barbie album, stated otherwise. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver recalled they wanted to incorporate Minaj from the get-go for their spin on Barbie Girl. This prompted him and his collaborators on the album to urge Greta Gerwig to write a letter to the Bang Bang rapper, leading to the filmmaker writing a beautiful note to Nicki.
He recalled:
“We went to Greta and asked Greta if she would write a letter to Nicki, and Greta wrote this beautiful note to Nicki and basically said like, ‘You are Queen Barb and when I set out to make this film, as I was thinking of artists, you were the first artist that really came to me as somebody that I felt was going to be an important collaborator and contributor to this,’”
The very next morning, after the letter made its way to the Trinidadian rapper, she hit them back, stating “she was 100 percent in,” and Barbie World ended up debuting at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Barbie World Was a Full-Circle Moment for Nicki Minaj
Appearing at Barbie‘s premiere, Nicki Minaj expressed that she was grateful to be a part of the film, which went on to become the biggest release of 2023. Furthermore, considering the Pink Friday Girls singer has channeled the doll throughout her career and refers to her fans as “Barbz,” working on the Gerwig-led project film was a “very full circle moment”.
She told Entertainment Tonight:
“I’ve been saying Barbie my whole career. So it’s a very full circle moment.”
But Barbie World was the lone hit to come out from the film, as both Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For and Ryan Gosling‘s universally acclaimed I’m Just Ken made headlines upon their release.
Barbie is available to stream on Max.
