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Nicki Minaj has a information for the Recording Academy soon after they moved her track “Super Freaky Girl” from a rap category to a pop class for award thought.
“I have no prob remaining moved out the RAP class as long as we r ALL becoming dealt with Rather. If SFG (‘Super Freaky Girl’) has 2B moved out RAP then so does Major Electricity!” Minaj wrote in a sequence of tweets, referring to the Latto tune. “ANY1 who suggests diff is simply a Nicki hater or a troll.”
“If you simply cannot notify by now that there is a concerted exertion to give newer artists matters that they definitely never are worthy of in excess of men and women who have been deserving for quite a few years, then you are not spending consideration. And by the way, this is not to say any track is poor or any woman rapper is negative,” Minaj wrote on Instagram. “I constantly say this: Any rapper, female or male, that wins a Grammy, you need to be f–king very pleased of on your own. But why is the goalpost only ever moved when it’s Nicki? Very well, I’ll notify you why. They really do not want the individuals that they have in the market to go up versus me.”
Minaj ongoing her argument in a movie submit.
“If ‘Super Freaky Girl’ is pop, then so is ‘Big Vitality.’ If you move ‘Super Freaky Girl’ out of rap and set it in pop, do the same with ‘Big Power.’ Suitable? Similar producers on each songs, by the way, if you want to discuss about it. So let us continue to keep s— truthful.”
The category swap was discovered when the very first-spherical ballot went out to Recording Academy voters this week.
Minaj had faith she would gain in the rap classification, but suggests now she doesn’t experience she stands a good prospect, due to the fact she’s presently up against Harry Designs and Adele.
The Recording Academy has not publicly mentioned the reasoning for positioning “Super Freaky Female,” which samples “Super Freak” by Rick James, in the pop class.