Nicki Minaj won’t clear a song for Kanye West, who is still going on antisemitic rants
Ye wants to put "New Body" on his new album Vultures, but Nicki Minaj thinks the moment has passed
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The sky is blue, water is wet, and Ye has pushed back the release of his new album at the last minute. Vultures, the new collaboration between Ty Dolla $ign and the artist formerly known as Kanye West, was due to drop on December 15, but the release never came. Neither artist has offered an update or explanation as to why the release was delayed—and frankly, at this point, it’s pretty typical of a Ye project. But one possible reason has emerged, and it has to do with Nicki Minaj.
On Thursday (mere hours before the album was meant to debut), Ye posted a screenshot to Twitter/X of a text message to Minaj which read: “May I call you about clearing new body on the new album.” The song, which Ty Dolla $ign publicized on Instagram as part of the tracklist a week ago, has been in the works since at least 2018, when it was meant to be part of the scrapped Yandhi, and another version was reportedly recorded for 2019’s Jesus Is King, but didn’t make the final tracklist.
For Minaj, who recently released her own album Pink Friday 2, the window for “New Body” has closed. “Regarding Kanye: that train has left the station, OK?” She said during an Instagram Live after Ye posted the text message (per The Guardian). “No disrespect in any way. I just put out a brand new album. Why would I put out a song that has been out for three years? Come on, guys.”
Minaj seems to have been over this situation for a while. In an interview with The Shade Room in 2019, she shared, “I done wrote three different verses chile, and I don’t know. We ain’t seeing eye to eye on it.” And in 2022, she said (per NME), “The public adored ‘New Body.’ Like, ‘New Body’ is the biggest hit record that never came out. … 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, right, only to then, I go on the internet a few months later to see him on Drink Champs.” The rapper added, “Everybody knows that’s the hit that got away … I think the ship has sailed for ‘New Body,’ everybody has come to love the original way they heard it.”
Meanwhile, as Vultures languishes, Ye is busy promoting Yeezy’s “first product since liberation from Adidas” and making yet more antisemitic comments. According to TMZ, Ye held court in Vegas early Friday morning, spouting conspiracy theories, disavowing Donald Trump, and badmouthing former business partners to a room full of people for nearly ten minutes. His rant included the alarming exclamation, “Jesus Christ, Hitler, Ye! Sponsor that!” The controversial artist was reported to have worn a black “KKK-style” hood to one of the Vultures listening parties; the album reportedly (via NME) includes the lyric “How I’m anti-Semitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch.”
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Lithium and Magic Anti-Asshole Pills. There. There’s your prescription. Take it and please shut the fuck up.
That’ll do for Musk, but West needs some Clozapine. All of it, in fact.
Funny how Ye’s the only celebrity not allowed to be anti-semetic. Guess he just started too soon.
True… Ivy Leaguers on a daily basis
They call mental illness anti semitism and cover it as much as they can. They ignore all the zionists in Hollywood calling for the genocide of Palestinians because it is ok to be bigoted against Palestinians in the USA.
LOL shut up
Oh okay so we’re talking about real, actual antisemitism not you made some students and a billionaire uncomfortable criticizing Israel’s war crimes and colonialism while acknowledging the human rights of Palestinians “antisemitism.”
From what I know of Kanye, a thoughtful critique of Israeli policy in Gaza is not terribly likely any time soon. But if you want to hear some “We all know who’s really pulling the strings” type stuff, he’s got you.
Knowing him and his mental health, it’s probably the one thing he is cool with.
Yeah the dude straight up said “hitler had some good ideas” basically.
There would be no Autobahn without him.
you forgot “and celebrating the decapitation of babies”
“How I’m anti-Semitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch.”Hard to argue with that logic.
Because he did it missionary?
God damn, sir.
I’m assuming yes.
In some ways, yes, almost impossible to argue with.
A bunch of slaveowners who had sex with their slaves are nodding in agreement from their graves.
The worst person you know just did something good.jpg
I’d be happy if both of these people disappeared forever.
I understand why we have to keep talking about Trump and his cronies, but why do we have to keep talking about Ye? Is his music still relevant, or has it been coasting on past success?
He hasn’t done anything worth a damn since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy …
… released in 2010.Yep. Ye can go away any time now, please.
Rappers push boundaries but this is scary, imo. All of this talk about “body counts” points to men’s paranoia about how many partners a woman has had and so they use their own language: a body count isn’t about sex, it’s about killing.
Featuring a 10 year old girl in this video is sick, imo.
I’m not a body shamer but West has serious body image issues so maybe he’s rapping about himself. We know what happened to his mother and how he felt about it. Probably the worst thing that ever happened to him was his involvement with Kardashian. Just my opinion but anyone who considers themselves an “artist” should be cautious about their proximity to people who value money more than anything else. But then I subscribe to the (maybe old fashioned) belief that art has a moral element – a duty beyond mere aesthetics.Everyone has “mental health” issues. I don’t think this guy is some kind of villain, even if it’s starting to look like that. The people we see ‘losing it’ in public and on stages are the canaries in our cages.
I think it’s fairer to say that being connected to West might be the worst thing to happen to the Kardashians than the over way around, since West is an unhinged, anti-Semitic asshole. I don’t see how you pin anything about what West is doing on the Kardashians, and Kim Kardashian at least seems to have tried to tamp down some of Kanye’s most Kanye traits.Please don’t put me in the position of having to defend the Kardashians. I really don’t like it.
Please don’t put me in the position of having to defend the Kardashians.She’s one of the dumbest regulars around here, no surprise that her take on this is trash.
LMAO High school girls use the phrase “body count” more than anyone else. You’re really reaching trying to make it something it’s not.
So he is doing nothing different than Ivy League students? Why would Niki withhold the stuff then?
Kanye sounds like any zionist talking about the people of Palestine.
Oh sweet Bobby. You really think you’re doing something.
Alternate headline: Hateful Person Denies Hateful Person’s RequestSubheading: ideally, both should be ignored.
Wow I get to make fun of Kanye, Klansmen, and orthodox Jews?…so he cut a hole in the KKK sheet?
By the way, BreadnMaters dismissed my comment criticizing her for blaming Kanye West’s behavior on the Kardashians. Nice that this site that given a heckler’s veto to the people who consistently say the dumbest shit.Also, BreadnMaters, you’re a candyass.
You’re both dorks.
I wonder what the circumstances of this verse were. I would think there would be a contract signed that when a guest artist provides a verse, the main artist can then release it when they see fit. Did Nicki already get paid for the verse? You’d think it would be contingent on the song actually being released. I’m not in the industry but I think it’s weird for someone to knowingly contribute a guest verse to a song only to try to stop that song coming out for…reasons.If she had publicly said “I don’t want to be associated with Kanye because he’s anti-Semitic” I would understand that. But her vague statements about the song being old or whatever don’t really make a lot of sense to me.