{"id":307295,"date":"2025-10-16T05:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:47:10","slug":"nicki-minaj-says-shes-cancelling-her-new-album-blames-jay-z-hope-youre-happy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307295\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj says she&#8217;s cancelling her new album, blames Jay-Z: &#8220;Hope you&#8217;re happy now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nicki-minaj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> has claimed that she\u2019s cancelling her new album, and has blamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/jay-z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay-Z<\/a> for it \u2013 see what she had to say below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/live\/nicki-minaj-gag-city-live-in-london-setlist-photos-3760307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicki Minaj live in London: ever-polarising rap iconoclast comes back fighting<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last month, Minaj <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1970699807196127500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced that her sixth studio album will be released in March next year<\/a>. Now, however, the \u2018Starships\u2019 rapper has seemingly cancelled the album and says Jay-Z is to blame.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote yesterday, also potentially hinting that she might be retiring from music altogether: \u201cOk I\u2019m not going to put out the album anymore. no more music. Hope you\u2019re happy now @sc [Jay-Z\u2019s handle]. Bye, Barbz. Love you for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ok I\u2019m not going to put out the album anymore. No more music. Hope you\u2019re happy now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sc<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bye, Barbz. <\/p>\n<p>Love you for life <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LpVEUVVtbT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LpVEUVVtbT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1978403282428088771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a previous tweet hours before her proclamation, she wrote about unspecified parties opposing her: \u201cThey don\u2019t want me to put out music. Me winning makes them feel like they lost. They\u2019re right. However, it didn\u2019t have to be this way. Lots of ppl part ways in business. They know how successful my next album is going to be. Tried to sign [Lil] Wayne, Drake, me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cSo they keep wanting to take or stop my money simply b\/c narcissists believe what you work hard for belongs to them. Fuming b\/c they can\u2019t siphon anymore energy, money, blessings, love, grace, joy, PEACE\u2026 the culture. No successful tours. Just vibes &amp; payola. CasiNO\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They don\u2019t want me to put out music. Me winning makes them feel like they lost. They\u2019re right. However, it didn\u2019t have to be this way. Lots of ppl part ways in business. They know how successful my next album is going to be. Tried to sign Wayne, Drake, me. So they keep wanting to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YH4ePk3NEm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/YH4ePk3NEm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1978343049571791167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She tagged Jay-Z once again in a separate post: \u201cThey came BEGGING the QUEEN for a tour &amp; album &amp; I said NOPE!!!!! LMFAO. Wanted to patch it up. They needed help from the QUEEN &amp; the BARBZ. I called the Barbz on the secret BARB phone &amp; it was a resounding NOOOOOOOO. just like the casinooooooooooooooooooo. @sc\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They came BEGGING the QUEEN for a tour &amp; album &amp; I said NOPE!!!!! LMFAO. Wanted to patch it up. They needed help from the QUEEN &amp; the BARBZ. I called the Barbz on the secret BARB phone &amp; it was a resounding NOOOOOOOO. just like the casinooooooooooooooooooo. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sc<\/a> let me find out\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1978399656255033765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These posts seemingly point at her strained relationship with Jay-Z, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/nicki-minaj-claims-shes-owed-200million-by-jay-z-and-that-democrats-attacked-me-over-my-cousins-balls-3877449\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she claimed earlier this year owes her $200million (\u00a3148m) for her equity in the music streaming platform Tidal<\/a>. She said that she was initially given a three per cent stake in Tidal at its 2015 launch, but was offered only $1million (\u00a3738,000) for her share of the company after it was then sold to Jack Dorsey\u2019s Square for $302million (\u00a3223m) in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It follows reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/jay-z-makes-big-push-for-caesars-palace-casino-in-times-square\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jay-Z has been pushing to open a Caesar\u2019s Palace casino in Times Square<\/a> despite heavy opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Nicki Minaj has repeatedly hit out at Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez, who in 2021 was pardoned by President Donald Trump for decades-old drug-related charges. Minaj has also suggested that Perez is behind tabloid outlets reporting that Minaj and her husband are being forced to sell her California home in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/nicki-minaj-and-her-husband-owe-500000-to-victim-of-alleged-backstage-assault-3608695\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay $500,000 to a security guard over an altercation that reportedly left the man with a broken jaw \u2013 a Los Angeles judge issued the ruling in March last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her rants targetted at Jay-Z, she\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/cardi-b-reignites-nicki-minaj-feud-with-age-gap-barb-as-well-as-threatening-to-beat-up-ice-spice-in-leaked-call-3896555\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">embroiled in a newly reignited war of words with Cardi B<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Nicki Minaj is serious about cancelling her album remains to be seen. Her last album was 2023\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-2-review-tracklist-lyrics-3555287\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Pink Friday 2\u2019, which scored a four-star review from NME<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Pink Friday 2\u2019 feels like a consolidation and refinement of everything Minaj can do \u2013 including dropping pop culture references that no other artist would think of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj has claimed that she\u2019s cancelling her new album, and has blamed Jay-Z for it \u2013 see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":307296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,17550,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-307295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-rap","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115382271781264084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}