It appears as if Nicki Minaj’s friendship with Kanye West has fizzled out, as the latter has seemingly unfollowed the “Hard White” rapper on Instagram. Fans noticed Kanye was no longer following Nicki on Monday, which many fans on social media believe is linked to her recent performance at the Essence Festival of Culture.
During Nicki’s headlining set, her DJ began playing “Monster,” lifted off Kanye’s 2010 album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” on which Nicki is featured on. Before the track could even get to her verse, she cut the performance short as she told the crowd, “I’m ‘Monster’-ed out, and we don’t f–k with clowns,” before changing the topic to “give a shout-out to New Orleans.” It was just in February when Nicki opened up on how she felt upon finding out her previous collaboration with Kanye on the song “New Body” had been shelved — a track she called “the hit that got away.” She explained that “New Body” was not officially released as Kanye had turned his attention to creating gospel music at the time.
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“So what I thought was interesting was that Kanye made me write my ‘New Body’ verse four times over in order to fit into where he was creatively and spiritually in his life,” she told Hot 106. “Only then do I go on the internet a few months later to see him on Drink Champs, rolling a blunt and smoking or whatever he was doing.”
“The public adored ‘New Body.’ Like, ‘New Body’ was the biggest hit record that never came out. 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 was the hit that got away.”
Some fans have speculated whether Nicki’s comments seemingly aimed at Kanye had anything to do with the release of Cardi B’s latest singe “Hot S***,” which features Kanye and Lil Durk. Of course, this is nothing more than fan speculation on social media, but the timeline of recent incidents and remarks would strongly suggest the “clown” remark may have been in response to Kanye working with the “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker.
Meanwhile, a judge ruled Nicki’s husband Kenneth Petty face one year of house arrest after failing to register as a sex offender when they relocated to Los Angeles. His guilty plea landed him the aforementioned sentence, after having faced up to 10 years in prison for what Kenneth claims to have been a mishap in his filed court docs.
Regardless of whether Kenneth had forgotten to register as a sex offender in California, the judge also ordered him to pay a fine of $55,000 along with three years of probation, according to the US Attorney’s Office via CBS Los Angeles.