Nicki Minaj apparently feels she needs to defend her pen game again. On Saturday (December 11), the multi-platinum rapper tweeted a few of the songs she wrote without any help from a ghostwriter.
“Songs I wrote the rap AND the hook to,” Minaj tweeted before listing off four of her biggest singles, including “High School,” “Beez In The Trap” and “Moment 4 Life.” “Probably the whole pink Friday album. Most of my album cuts on my albums. These I’m naming r singles. Other ‘writers’ names’ are added for sampling, adlibs, feature, production, etc.”
While it remains unclear who stirred up the conversation surrounding Nicki Minaj’s work, this isn’t the first time she’s had to defend herself against ghostwriting allegations. She most famously came for Ransom in 2013 after he dissed her pen game on the track “Man Alone.”
“Before Nicki was wearing those crazy wigs/I was doing verses for her just hoping she’d make it big,” he rapped.
Nicki Minaj was quick to bite back at the rapper, telling TMZ, “I’m not even a man and n-ggas got my dick in they mouth. I slaughter these n-ggas. Period. I’m undisputed because I’m the only female rapper that day one, I don’t need no motherfuckin’ ghostwriter. So if you telling that lie, you must be real fuckin’ desperate and you still ain’t gon’ pop. How ‘bout that?”
Ransom later said in an interview with Sway In The Morning she was overreacting, telling Sway Calloway, “I think she verbally attacked me. The line coulda been taken either way. but if you do your research, then you know that I didn’t maliciously say that in any way to come at her credibility.”
I usually believe ghostwriting allegations because when do lyricists ever get accused of ghostwriting ? But with that being said, why is hip hop/rap music the only genre where this is frowned upon ? Dont they have grammys for best song writer of the year ? If hip hop has turned into the WWE, lets not forget the wrestlers dont write the scripts.
It’s because rap is about you, talking about your life. If someone else is writing your life, then you aren’t talented enough for the genre. If you think your personal life is worth taking notice of, then write about it. Don’t have other people telling us why your life is worth listening to.
Because she’s a woman. Period. Women never get respect for their craft in hip hop. Especially if they’re over the top sexual
so she did not write her verse on Monster?… how mofos dare say she killed it then?
she did write monster, along with all of her bars. she was saying she doesn’t write all her *hooks* because producers send what hook they want and she writes all the rapping part.
hmm, I think she doesn’t write shit
Ur MAD slow bro. Shorty CLEARLY said HOOKS. She said sometimes beats are given to her with hooks already on them (if ur a fan of hip hop u know this is regular shit). She said the records where she doesn’t accept hooks and decides to write her own hooks on them instead, are the ones that her fans connect to more. She never said anything about not writing her own verses. EVERYBODY knows Nicki writes her own verses. She prides herself in doing that since she was an underground rapper. Ya just choose to hear what makes u feel better because it’s better to say “she didnt write that” even with all the proof of evidence there is. Like Rick Ross saying in an interview he watched her (WITH HIS OWN 2 EYES) write her Monster verse in a studio in Hawaii, the same verse that Kanye himself said he “he almost took off the album because he was afraid it was gonna overshadow the whole album and being the most talked about verse and it still ended up being that”. Theres videos (go on YouTube) of Nicki sitting in different studio sessions writing her shit with a pen and paper. Drake asked her in an MTV interview with Sway “what’s her thought process when writing because he was so impressed”, Jay-Z is reciting HER lyrics on HIS tour with her mugshot in the back screen. Who does Hov do that for? What other female rapper has Eminem ever worked with? All the vets in the game (Nas, Jadakiss, Fab, Cam, Jay, Wayne, Drake etc etc) they all know she writes her own shit. Shorty brings up a topic about HOOKS and ya turn it into this ghostwriter bs cuz it kills u inside that someone else, especially a female has mastered a skill that none of u bums could ever.
She said “Songs that I wrote the raps and the hooks too”. This implies there’s raps she don’t write you fucking tool.
Fuck her either way her shit is trash
oh naw you just hating now
Nicki is for a certain audience. She’s mainstream, but came from a lyrical background….just let her move whatever way she chooses, it’s her career folks. She maybe trash to some, but some little girls or boys maybe thinking she’s the ish. She’s chasing the bag the way she knows how to….
someone should expose everything that’s questionable about music in nikkei’s case, pop. like the wwe or what ever they have secrets.
She needs to let the dogs out…
Hi Nicki.