Nicki Minaj has expressed her gratitude to Nick Cannon for his recent remarks about her impact on Hip Hop, and noted she’s a G.O.A.T., regardless of gender.
On Monday (April 24), a Nicki Minaj fan account posted a clip from Cannon’s recent interview with The Bootleg Kev Podcast, where he declared that Nicki deserves to be considered among the great rap artists.
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“First off all, let’s not disrespect Nicki. Nicki is the G.O.A.T. whatever he gender is,” Cannon told Kev. “She is one of the coldest artists in the last decade. Like we can’t sleep on her skill, her pen. [I mean] sonically, she changed the game.”
After catching wind of the tweet, Nicki quote tweeted the post with a heart-shaped hand emoji.
The conversation started after Bootleg Kev asked Cannon who he would choose over Nicki Minaj and Latto, and Cannon opted for the Pinkprint rapper. He did mention that he loved Latto as well, and that when it comes to his ranking, it’s just a hierarchy in his view, just as if he was to compare Nicki with Kim, he would choose Kim.
Cannon praised Minaj’s appearance on Kanye West’s “Monster” which featured her along with Rick Ross and JAY-Z on his 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. “The track became hers once she jumped on it,” he said. “Gender aside, sex aside, she is dope.”
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Cannon noted that the only two musicians who could compare the Queens-bred rapper are Missy Elliot or Lauryn Hill. As for Cannon’s overall Top 5 (plus one), he included 2Pac, JAY-Z, Ice Cube, but couldn’t decide where to put Kendrick, Drake, and Eminem.
Elsewhere, Nick Cannon has revealed he was offered the leading role in the 2006 film ATL before T.I. ultimately landed it.
Speaking to HipHopDX, the talented multi-hyphenate and business mogul was asked about Tip’s recent revelation that he had actually auditioned for Cannon’s role in the 2002 film Drumline.
“Yeah, I know about that,” he told DX. “I’ve interviewed T.I. and he’s interviewed me a couple times and we always talk about that story … he gets mad at me like, ‘Why you always got to bring that up?’”
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But while the King of the South’s near-miss is now public knowledge thanks to his interview with Shannon Sharpe in January, some might not be aware that Nick Cannon was actually offered T.I.’s role in the 2006 film ATL, which ended up being the Atlanta rapper’s feature-film debut.
