Big Fendi, the former manager of Nicki Minaj, spoke in-depth about discovering the rapper, their falling out, and more, during a recent interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. Fendi kicked off his interview by informing those listening that he still owns the trademark to Nicki Minaj, NickiMinaj.com, and more.
He also added that he was only offered a finder’s fee of $15,000 for the work he put in with Minaj prior to her deal with Young Money.
“I didn’t get nothing,” Big Fendi said. “Nah, Nicki tried to offer me a finder’s fee of 15,000. I laughed at it. Can’t be serious…Actually, I own the trademark to Nicki Minaj. I own NickiMinaj.com. I actually [own her trade]. So, in a minute you gon’ see a lot of things coming off those shelves.”
According to Fendi, he met Nicki Minaj through MySpace in either 2006 or 2007. He says that he encouraged the Jamaica, Queens lyricist to change her rap name from Nicki Maraj to Nicki Minaj for marketing purposes. He added that changing her name was a move cosigned by both Jadakiss and Busta Rhymes.
Big Fendi also recalled being taken aback by the contract initially offered to Nicki by Young Money. He says the contract didn’t include an advance or royalties.
“Nicki’s a groupie,” he said. “I mean, Nicki jumps from—Nicki started with me in ’06, ’07. I met her on MySpace…Her name was Nicki Maraj when I met her. I changed her name to Nicki Minaj. And I actually got into a big argument with her family because she felt like—Nicki didn’t like the name Minaj. She felt like I was degrading her. Like ‘Oh, you tryna take me to a whole ‘nother situation.’ I was like ‘Nah, they need it for marketing.’ I actually called Jadakiss up. I called Busta up. I was like ‘How y’all feel about Nicki Minaj?’ They was like ‘Oh, that’s hard.’ So, we started off like that. She’s actually still signed to my production company, which is Dirty Money…It took me 70 days to get the Young Money deal. It was the Young Money/Dirty Money deal. So, when I got the contract Nicki started ducking me. Because Wayne gave me one of those Cash Money contracts from the ‘80s. It was no royalties on it. No advance, nothing. So, I told Nicki ‘Yo, I ain’t signing this contract. I ain’t gonna let you do that to yourself.’ She started crying…Nicki might got a better contract now.”
Fendi later detailed the moment Debra Antney, mother to Waka Flocka Flame, came into the picture. He revealed that it was prior to Nicki Minaj signing to Young Money that she began working with Antney, a person he later said “brainwashed” Nicki.
“Debbie called me up two weeks later like ‘Oh, I like your artist,’” Big Fendi said. “Cause I gave her the mixtape. She was like ‘I like your artist. We need to set up a meeting’…Nicki went out there and then Debbie brainwashed her. Debbie got out there—Debbie got her little tactics. Debbie hit her with the ‘Nicki Minaj, I don’t know about that name. He’s trying to take you in the wrong direction.’ So, I’m like ‘Hold on, Debbie. You my homegirl. How you poisoning my artist after I put you on to her’…Meanwhile, my contract with Wayne/Young Money is still moving. So, basically she tried to wait til my contract expired before she signed with Young Money…I still got that contract to this day. That’s what I’m in court with.”
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Brainwashed her for success? Funny ex managers, well forget your name by tomorrow, Small Givenchy, be thankful that your name was popping in one article, DX will post another dozen about Nicki in next few days tho, which kinda sucks too.
you completely missed the whole point of the article. i dont think he cares for his name in the spot light or cares if internet people forget about him. what hes talking about is real shit.
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i know u a corny ass dude now…. fendi made the biggest dvds for the hood and the world wanted in too… gambino and chance wouldn last in that era… u gotta be from the hood to get interviews not in the basement or beverly hills
I hope he use to beat her too, she needs it
How would you fill if someone beat you … hopefully they’ll knock some sense into you !
Sue That Bitch!!!
He should try selling some old vids/pics of Nikki before she got her boob job and ass injections, he will get paid more that way rather from this lawsuit that will prob get tossed out.
niki minaj would kill herself if pics were leaked on the net from when she was a no havin ass basic bitch from queens.
what u talking bout. they already all over the net fam. they been on MTO dozens of times. the bitch is gon continue living in denial telling james franco it’s all natural and gym work when we see pics of it sagging unaturally. i used to think her titties were at least real but they fake too damn!
Nicki gon continue stacking her paper while you continue to hate behind a computer screen and this nigga continues to plot like a little bitch on how to make money off of someone else instead of getting it like a real nigga.
^^ such a hood mentality. you ready to serve the rich massa. if a billionaires kids who never did a damn thing in their lives, who would be working at mcdonalds if they were born in a different family, if they inherited 40 billion dollars you would probably worship them for their genetic line. there’s a lot more to life than money you piece of trash. but money is everything to a broke nigga which you clearly are. when you actually get money it dont mean a damn thing no more.
yo this nikka look like Busta lmao
i saw the interview on wshh, its a lil kim interview where he speaks at the very end for about 10-15 mins. what he talks about is real shit regarding niki minaj, good interview.
good interview,I hope big fendi gets whats his,the bitch just wanted fame,end of story
I hope he receives fair compensation for his work, Nicki made the Forbes list so she is not hurting and can afford to give this man his due…..at the least she can buy her trademark and website from him for a nice sum if he is willing.
No real hip hop fan can support Nicki Minaj. She can’t even succeed with her own swag. She has to copy Lil’ Kim to have any success. She copied Kim’s swag and LYRICS to get ahead. And the bitch ain’t even loyal when it comes to business. She doesn’t mind defrauding the guy who put her on. The bitch is ruthless. People who do business that way succeed for a while, but they never last for the long haul. Karma will come for that bitch Nicki Minaj! She may be winning now, but when karma strikes, it will destroy her in a New York minute. She better get ready, because her downfall is coming. She planted those seeds with her own evil.
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please know what your talkin bout cuz kim uses Nicki’s name to get anywhere so yes ur welcome for nicki giving u the chance to defend ur so called queen Bee
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HE WONT GET A FRUCKIN DIME. GOD HES UGLY. LIKE AN OVER INFLATED FROG. RIBBIT!
Hoe could Nicki sleep with that? He looks like a big black gorrrila in the zoo
cuz she needs a hug from her daddy
funny how she sold out so hard, went from being against the name minaj to posing for single covers with her bare ass out
she has the child abuse to justify acting like a stripper. she’s the worlds most successful stripper.
This can’t be true because u love chinese people too much to have a manager like that.
This is a lie, because when your getting to the top, you have to let go of some people anyway, and I don’t think that she would do this just because she was getting to the top. its a natural progression. I think she would hang on to those she admires or idols she remembers. cause like she talks about her favourite rappers in ‘fly’, so why would she even think about this? It doesnt make any sense watsoever. Put it this way, someone is sticking up for her and it might be her new manager. So she doesnt need him anymore anyway.
Who is Nicki Minaj’s manager anyway? whoever it is is getting her some good gigs. I want to go and see her live.
I dont think she sold out cus that can only happen when someone is buying. why would someone say that, theres lots of carbon copies of her. people do stunts and spoofs about her all the time. Does that make her unique or not? maybe you would need teaching to understand that. The unlearned would keep asking questions about who she is and what she does. Can’t you see shes a vj and rapper now? or presenter? Her management are rolling in it. leave her alone. I liked her best on QVC, like her residual skills allow her to have 5 incomes at once. fabulous.
I think she is signed to Def Jam now, so what are you talking about? I’m sure they manage and promote and everything
No she isnt signed to Def Jam because i’m sure they split to Island Records.
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ny niggas go to sleep in their timbs praying to a passport size photo of papoose.
Y’all some dumbass niggas. Believe King Kong, over the WOMAN who actually managed her career and promoted her, along with Wayne.
Read this. You fags make me sick, LMFAO https://hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.20930/title.mizay-entertainments-deb-antney-calls-nicki-minaj-her-first-born-child-of-being-successful
Him and Gucci basically turned their backs on her, when she decided as a businesswoman to be smart and move on to bigger things. Trap doesn’t save your god damn Rap career, branching out does. Glad she decided in one part to be versatile and do different styles of Rap and R&B.
She’s a joke. She barely has any talent… Snow Tha Product blows this bloated bitch outta the water. The whole fuckin label is a joke and so are the fans… YM is like COD: The same exact thing. Every. Single. Time. and all of these dumbass kids gobble that shit up like some hungry hungry hippos. Baby, Birdman/Wayne’s daddy already admitted that the whole label half-asses music because them just being on a song makes it a hit…? Da Fuck??
she fired deb too
I seen it all from the start she was on all them come up dvds. fendi really did put her on and get her known, no doubt about it
Lil wayne said himself he found out bout nikki thru the come up dvds her freestyle came on after one of his videos and Big Fendi owns makes the come up dvds.
They should just pay him 200 grand or sumthing instead of goin thru the suing bullshit.If they tried anything outside of court Fendi would slap the shit out anyone in young money no problem he always rolling round with jadakiss styles p n them d-block niggas
Fendi said in a video he wants 15 mill. He thinks he’s too big for 200k. In the same vid he said this is worthy of a gun beef.
yall realize nikki been rapping for over 5 years now…he aint getting paid NO time soon…he needs to just get off nikkis dick
nikki must of got tired looking at this ugly mf….ol peanut butter looking ass..hot grease making ass…whole back sweating for no reason ass..mcdonald loving ass nicca
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Someone needs to beat her & her mother
White people be watching like, go team Nicki. Stupid niggas in Paris!
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Big Fendi sit your ass down somewhere man, Why is all these overgrown ass producers in the studios act like messy ass females these days Really????
I thought Full Force started Nicki Minaj’s career.
if u own nicki’s shit y are u talkin about her instead of gettin that bread nigga