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Nicki Minaj has reportedly demanded that influential US radio station Hot 97 stop playing her music after a series of falling outs over her role as a rap or pop artist.
The 'Pound The Alarm' star has long been a feature of the urban station's playlists, but after releasing singles such as 'Starships' in 2012, comments were made earlier in 2012 by DJ Pete Rosenberg about her new pop sound. Now, the station's program director, 'Ebro', has revealed she has demanded the station stop playing her music completely after her recent album re-release Pink Friday Roman Reloaded The Re-Up flopped.
"I said, 'Rosenberg ruined Nicki Minaj's career' - evidence suggests based on this Re-Up release, the things [Rosenberg] said about her being pop and selling out and making that pop music came back to haunt her," said Ebro on the station, saying that the recent re-release was a failed attempt to reconnect with her hip-hop audience.
"Now, she puts six rap records on this album and it didn't sell... I get the phone call, the international number pops up, I answer the call, it's my friend Nicki Minaj, who then starts to proclaim how I'm fake. She used every woman's stab she could - 'I thought you were a man, you're a cornball, I thought we were friends, you're fake, everyone told me you were fake'
"I said, 'Nicki, I'm helping you. I'm keeping you in the Hip Hop conversation. This Hip Hop thing's a competition; you're either ringing, or you're not, and just like I said yesterday, i love you, boo and I'll dust you off and make sure this thing is popping off again.' And she goes, 'Don't ever play my music again'... of course we are [still playing Nicki Minaj], I love Nicki Minaj."
The Re-Up reportedly sold just 36,000 copies one release
Minaj previously blamed US stores for poor sales of the album, saying that the lack of physical copies on shelves was why The Re Up had reportedly sold just 36,000 copies on release.
Speaking to Power 105.1, Nicki said, "It's hard to get the album because the stores basically said that the last few re-releases they had put out did not do well and they didn't want to take a chance.
"So Target and Walmart [are] not selling the album. And Target is actually my biggest retailer.
"They've sold the most Nicki Minaj albums ever; thank you Target, but I wish you could have sold this one... it kind of sets you up to fail."
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