Nicki Minaj has been creating a buzz in the music industry all thanks to her powerful voice. The bold rapper has collaborated with many influential personalities over the years to further expand the horizon of her talent. However, this time, she has outwitted Ye, formerly known as Kanye West by blocking his latest album.
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The duo has long collaborated on the song, New Body which won’t be seeing any light according to the former. She seemed to have denied his request to add that song to his new album, Vultures.
Nicki Minaj Denied Kanye West’s Latest Album, Vultures
Kanye West has recently collaborated with Ty Dolla $ign on his new project, Vultures. However, he wished to add another track, New Body in the album which he worked on with Nicki Minaj. On Thursday, he tweeted a screenshot of a text message seemingly asking to give him clearance to include it in the new project.
The message read,
“May I call you about clearing new body on the new album”.
While Minaj did not respond immediately, she addressed the topic during the Instagram live stream stating (via The Guardian),
“Regarding Kanye: that train has left the station, OK? No disrespect in any way. I just put out a brand new album. Why would I put out a song that has been out for three years? Come on, guys.”
The new album was supposed to be out on December 15, 2023 however blocking the release of the track has led to supposed postponement.
New Body Was Set to Release in Kanye West’s Scrapped Album, Yandhi
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Their history with that song dates back to 2018 as Minaj recorded the song with the duo for the rapper’s scrapped album Yandhi. It was then re-recorded for his 2019 gospel record, Jesus Is King with a new verse sung by the Queen of Rap. However, it didn’t sit well with her as she complained back at the time,
“What’s funny is that I did a song with Kanye, that he now wants to transform into a gospel song. I done wrote three different verses chile, and I don’t know. We ain’t seeing eye to eye on it,” she told The Shade Room at the time.
The song was an eventual hit on TikTok after getting leaked however the actress has already made herself clear that the song would not be released. In an interview with the Hot 106 at the time, she stated,
“The public adored ‘New Body.’ Like, ‘New Body’ is the biggest hit record that never came out.” She added, “Had ‘New Body’ been out when he was not in his gospel era, then it would’ve seen the light of day. But, it didn’t, so it wasn’t meant to be. Everybody knows that’s the hit that got away. … I think the ship has sailed for ‘New Body,’ everybody has come to love the original way they heard it.”
Meanwhile, the album is garnering mixed reactions due to West’s past comments about anti-semitism, leading to major controversy.
