Nicki Minaj’s boss and Cash Money Records co-founder Bryan ‘Birdman’ Williams recently weighed in on the feud between Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim.
“I don’t care to get caught up in that and I don’t care to make money off of that,” Birdman told XXLMag, revealing that neither him nor Cash Money ever wanted to get involved in beef.
Knowing that the situation is going on though, Birdman added, “That’s not our thing, but it is what it is.”
Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim’s beef allegedly was built around the belief that Nicki Minaj never paid any homage to Lil Kim and didn’t respect what she had done and paved for female rappers in the game. Nicki Minaj released a song entitled “Roman’s Revenge” believed to be a diss song aimed at Lil Kim. Nicki Minaj later had some words publicly for Lil Kim in an interview with Angie Martinez on New York’s Hot 97, as reported on www.HipHopRX.com. Lil Kim fired back with her own diss song entitled Black Friday.
Touching on whether Nicki Minaj paid homage or not to Lil Kim, Birdman simply stated, “Nicki is grown, Nicki does her own thing, I don’t think she has to — nobody has to salute or be saluted, we in this hustlin’,†adding that “the hustle gonna make you salute.”
Then touching on money as the businessman he is, Birdman states “Nicki’s with her team, we ain’t doin’ nothing [but] putting out good music. So if somebody’s fuckin’ with that, to me, they’re violating. Bullshit don’t weigh nothing, the grind and the money do.”
In related news, Nicki Minaj, who was recently announced as Rolling Stone’s quote ‘Queen Of Hip Hop,’ recently released her new album Pink Friday which hit #2 it’s debut week out, as reported on www.HipHopRX.com.
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YO NIKKI IS NOT HIP HOP WE NEED MORE TO CALL HER THE QUEEN! CASH MONEY PROBLY PAID FOR TITLE NO ONE ELES THINKS THAT, SHE IS NOT THE QUEEN ON THE STREETS OR IN SALES SHE HAD ONE ALBUM WHICH WAS GARBAGE! LETS SEE IF SHE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE GAME,, LIL KIM IMPACT ON THIS GAME OPEN DOORS FOR NIKKI AND THEY WAY NIKKI DID IT WAS WACK, NIKKI SHOULD HAVE PAID HOMAGE (AND SHE DID IN THE INTERVIEW WITH ANGIE) SO LETS GET OVER IT LIL KIM THE REAL QUEEN WILL BE COMIGN SOON, I AM SURE WE WILL ALL SEE SHE IS TILL THE QUEEN CAUSE KIM RIPPED NIKKI IN BLACK FRIDAY ! NIKKI COUDL NEVER COME LIKE THAT! BUT STILL IN ALL THE BEST TO NIKKI, U WOULD HAD ALL OF US AS FANS IF U DID IT RIGHT.
kim might have been in the game for 10years but what have she done we platinum album
Who in da hood reads rolling stone mag! they need to stay in their lane and review rock and pop albums. Nicki just arrived with a one week old album. she needs to do more, drop a few more albums AND respond to Lil Kim on wax before there is even discussion re the crown.
Right now, where it counts, on the streetz, Kim still wearing it. Nicki shook! She drops roman’s revenge and disses kim on HOt 97 and now that Kim ethered her with Black Friday she wanna run say kim making it hard for female rappers.
Bitch please, did u think of that when u dissed lil kim in roman’s revenge. Hypocrite much!
LiL Kim needs to sit her old ass down, she has nothing on nicki minaj. all lil kim ever raps about is getting fukkd or sucking dick get the fukk. so what she kind of look like her that doesnt make her money her music does nd it totally different the lil kims! Lil kim is just a hater and has nothing better to do she is using nikkie for the fame. everybody forgot bout lil kim way before nikki come out. plus lil kim wanna talk bout how she got fake tits nd all that other shit please bitch u did the same. but unlike lil kim nicki always had a natural beauty to her even before the ass! nicki has way more self respect then lil kim will ever had….lil kim is full of shidd!
lil kim u had yo tym bitch n now its tym fo nicki get ova yoself coz u may jus start sumthng u wnt b able to handle ,we tired of hearing yo bulshit . jus no tht nicki is the bomb n she may xplode on yo face @nicki kip up da gud wek gal n dnt bek down coz of cowards lik kim thy r jus bored o jus lukin fo attention ,u r duin so fyn fo ths industry n i dont c the problem wth u being the queen .here is a line frm yo song “rite thru me” U ALWAYS TOLD ME FORGET THE HATERS ,JUS GET MY MONEY JUS GET MY……………, im rily sure tht even lil kim listens to yo album everyday coz its one of the best gal . jus like drake said “U THE FU**EN BEST
‘â€I can easily say it’s unfortunate, but I’ve had my diss wars, you know, and my battles back in the day,†Lyte told VH1. “With regards to Nicki and Kim, we were actually just talking about it in the dressing room. There’s room for everyone, but those who really need to be worried by Nicki’s record is Fergie, Gwen Stefani, Nelly Furtado.†—— MC LYTE
I’ve been saying this from the start… nicki is a pop star. i congratulate her on that.. hope she is successful. But she is not no Femees. Lyte went on to say some other things check out the exchange on BET BLOG. But dont you see how she name 3 POP STARS. she didnt name 3 female rap artist. One of the ORIGINATORS of female rap and DISS RAP stated what many in the hip-hop world feel about minaj. Its nothing wrong with it…but she cant mess with the Queen B lyrically… so she should stay in her lane… unless she is ready to go toe-to-toe lyrically
The point is…WHY does she have to go toe-to-toe? MC Lyte should have LESS discussion about this than Lil’ Kim, IMO. You could rhyme but she’s been more successful doing voiceovers for tampon commercials than she had at selling records. Queen Latifah has been the only female rapper with complete CLASS regarding Minaj. Don’t hate…participate. Lil’ Kim seems petty and can’t let go of the past and that is why she is in constant need for acceptance. Not just by beating her chest saying, “hey, you didn’t say you owed all of this because of me” but also because she can’t stay out of the plastic surgeon’s office. The key to ANYONE’s success is to be able to grow “old” gracefully. She is running the risk of destroying her OWN legacy…NOT Minaj. To me, Nicki’s style is more Gaga than Kim and THAT’S why I like her. Gaga, Rihanna and more are more outlandish but because Minaj raps…she’s being attacked? We are just PROOF that black folk can’t get along. In 2011, we STILL have that slave mentality. It’s pitiful. Crabs in a bucket ass, mentality at work. SMDH. Get over yourself Kim. If you don’t like it, then make more records and quit trying to make your fans fight a stupid battle that shouldn’t even exist. We’re the same age, girl. GROW UP!