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Nicki Minaj has a message for the Recording Academy after they moved her track “Tremendous Freaky Woman” from a rap class to a pop class for award consideration.
“I’ve no prob being moved out the RAP class so long as we r ALL being handled FAIRLY. If SFG (‘Tremendous Freaky Woman’) has 2B moved out RAP then so does Massive Vitality!” Minaj wrote in a collection of tweets, referring to the Latto track. “ANY1 who says diff is solely a Nicki hater or a troll.”
“When you can’t inform by now that there’s a concerted effort to offer newer artists issues that they actually don’t deserve over individuals who have been deserving for a few years, then you definately’re not paying consideration. And by the best way, this isn’t to say any track is unhealthy or any feminine rapper is unhealthy,” Minaj wrote on Instagram. “I at all times say this: Any rapper, feminine or male, that wins a Grammy, you ought to be f–king happy with your self. However why is the goalpost solely ever moved when it’s Nicki? Properly, I’ll let you know why. They don’t need the those that they’ve within the trade to go up in opposition to me.”
Minaj continued her argument in a video publish.
“If ‘Tremendous Freaky Woman’ is pop, then so is ‘Massive Vitality.’ When you transfer ‘Tremendous Freaky Woman’ out of rap and put it in pop, do the identical with ‘Massive Vitality.’ Proper? Similar producers on each songs, by the best way, if you wish to speak about it. So let’s preserve s— truthful.”
The class swap was seen when the first-round poll went out to Recording Academy voters this week.
Minaj had religion she would win within the rap class, however says now she doesn’t really feel she stands a good likelihood, since she’s at the moment up in opposition to Harry Types and Adele.
The Recording Academy has not publicly acknowledged the reasoning for putting “Tremendous Freaky Woman,” which samples “Tremendous Freak” by Rick James, within the pop class.