Nicki Minaj recalls her unreleased Kanye West collaboration “New Body”.
Nicki Minaj made her return to the music scene with the new single called “Do We Have A Problem?” with hitmaker Lil Baby. She had been on the promo throughout this week, and recently made an appearance on The Hot Morning Show for an interview with Bekah and Mike D.
On the show, she was asked about her unreleased Kanye West collaboration “New Body”, which was supposed to appear on the scrapped album “Yandhi”. Kanye West then wanted the song to appear on the “Jesus Is King” album as a gospel record, and made her rewrite her verse four times. “Let me tell you something about that… I respect everybody and where they are in life, where they are spiritually,” she said at around the 15:30 minute mark. “The public adored ‘New Body.’ Like, ‘New Body’ is the biggest hit record that never came out. So what I thought was interesting was that 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 go on the internet a few months later to see him on Drink Champs.”
“I missed it by a year, I guess,” she continued. “Had ‘New Body’ been out when he was not in his gospel era, then it would’ve seen the light of day. But, it didn’t, so it wasn’t meant to be. Everybody knows that was the hit that got away.”
The hosts then asked her if she gets a call for Ye’s upcoming album “Donda 2“. “I think the ship has sailed for ‘New Body’ because everybody has come to love the original way they heard it so I’ll just let everybody have that in their hearts,” she said. “It is what it is. Sometimes stuff happens like that in our world. You can’t predict how things are going to be presented to the world.”
She also disclosed that she has already “signed on the dotted line” to perform more of her Queen Radio programme, and that an official announcement would be made in the coming weeks. She also discussed keeping a competitive mentality with Drake and Lil Wayne, who are part of her Young Money family.
“I think we are always competing,” she said at the 7:00 point of the chat. “I think Drake and Wayne and myself, I think we are very freaking competitive. I think that’s what makes it fun,” she said. “I remember one time when I was kind of losing my way a few years back…and Lil Wayne was like, ‘Yo, you need to be in the studio, you need to be around rappers!’” His advice was right, she added, because being around Drizzy and Weezy in the studio inspires her to remain competitive and “go super duper hard.”
Watch the interview below.
