Nicki Minaj once approached Kanye West for a Yeezy Collaboration.
Nicki Minaj’s highly anticipated new interview with Joe Budden is out now, and the two had an in-depth conversation for about 2 hours. While talking about her music return and other things, she also revealed that she once approached Kanye West for a fashion collaboration with Yeezy. Nicki Minaj reveals that she talked to Ye about the collab after her successful clothing partnership with Fendi in 2019.
Joe Budden shared his much-anticipated interview with the rap queen earlier today. Nicki mentioned her successful connection with Fendi, which began after the release of her 2018 single “Chun-Li,” at one point during the almost two-hour chat. “‘Chun-Li’ said ‘Fendi prints on’ and that changed everything,” recalled Nicki “Once ‘Chun-Li’ came out and I said ‘Fendi prints on,’ all the girls started posting and saying ‘Fendi prints on,’ so Fendi gave me a deal.”
“I told Kanye about that. I was like, ‘Hey look, I’m about to do something and I just wanted to make sure I spoke to you first,’ because you know I have so much respect for him,” she said at the 50:00 minute mark. However, the Donda rapper declined her request because of his then-wife Kim Kardashian. “He was like, ‘Well, if I did something with you, I think my wife probably wouldn’t love that idea because I should be giving that to my wife instead, if I was doing a female version of the Yeezys or whatever, it probably should go to my wife.’”
She continues, “Kanye was very vocal about the fashion industry not letting him in at one time. So if a Black female who you know has just shown herself to be sellable in that space… I come to you as a Black man that I look up to, I’m doing that because you inspired me because you said the fashion industry didn’t want to let us in even though we’re so influential.” “That’s how [Kanye] thought she would feel about it and so it is what it is.”
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“We have to be careful that when we put these things out there and when a door is open that we do figure out a way to have another Black face there in that space. That’s why it takes us so long to get into so many things, even though we are the most influential people on the planet.”
Watch her interview below.
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