“Queen Radio,” Nicki Minaj’s Beats 1 present, is again with one other episode. During a no-holds-barred airing of grievances, she doubled down on attacking Travis Scott about what she believes have been illegitimate album gross sales. (Her new album, Queen, debuted at quantity 2 on the Billboard chart this week, behind Scott’s album Astroworld.) On Twitter final weekend, Minaj called out Travis Scott for promoting merch and tickets for his upcoming Astroworld tour with album downloads and having these rely as album gross sales.
On “Queen Radio,” Minaj mentioned, “What we’re not gonna do is have that Auto-Tune man selling fucking sweaters telling you he sold half a million albums, because he fucking didn’t. You stupid fuck. You got your fucking homeboy talking for you and you got your girlfriend selling tour passes. Stop it. Knock it the fuck off.”
“When [Travis] comes along and sells a tour pass that has nothing to do with his fucking music and says he’s sold more than Kanye West and Nas—no you fucking didn’t, keep it the fuck real. I know I’m that bitch, I know I’m Number 1.”
Nicki then continued, “Having said that, none of this is some serious anger shit. No—we are in a time right now where black music is prospering. And I am one of the people who, I’m so excited to see where rap has come from and where we are. But right is right and wrong is wrong.”
Nicki additionally touted her past fights for changes in Billboard and RIAA certification requirements for streaming, and lamented not being acknowledged for serving to out artists who benefited. “Some of y’all favorite artists need them streaming points,” she mentioned. “Shout out to Chance the Rapper. Let it be known Onika was one of those people fighting.”
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