Onika Tanya Maraj porpularly known as Nicki Minaj and Young Money’s major beef with Hot 97 is only getting more and more heated. After Nicki called into Funk master Flex‘s radio show to debate the reasons for pulling out of Summer Jam, the man who is dissed the MC is weighing in once again on the hip-hop scene. ”I need it be clear — I gave an opinion on a song,” said Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg, who laid down the comment at the New York fest kicked off the feud. ”And Nicki Minaj and Young Money decided to skip Summer Jam. Because of an opinion, not a personal attack, nothing derogatory because she’s a woman.”
The beef started when Rosenberg criticized the single from the Minaj"Starships” at the music festival. “I know there are some chicks in here waiting to sing along with ‘Starships’ later,” he said to the crowd. ”I’m not talking to y’all now. Fuck that bullshit. I’m here to talk about real hip hop shit.” This beef resulted in Lil Wayne pulling his entire Young Money roster off the line-up at the last minute, including the headliner Minaj.
Peter Rosenberg on Nicki Minaj - Part 1
“That’s why music is so mediocre nowadays, because no one can give opinions,” says Rosenberg. “If you give an opinion, cats hate you, their crew skips your concert, they diss you on twitter, their boyfriends threaten to punch you in the face.” (Rosenberg is referencing Nicki’s boyfriend, Safaree ”SB” Samuels, who tweeted a profanity-laden threat that he would punch Rosenberg at Summer Jam.)
“Nicki’s boyfriend went on Twitter and said he was going to punch me in tbe face because I don’t like a pop dance song that his girlfriend made,” he says. ”My fans — and by that I mean, not fans of me, fans of real hip-hop, appreciated what I said… The world is not just Barbz. The world is not just 16-year-old girls. There are a lot of people out there who feel that they don’t like music like that. Not all of her music, the song that I specifically referenced.”
“She’s had a lot of good moments. ‘Starships’ ain’t one of them,” he adds, describing the single as “a girly-ass dance-pop song”.
Peter Rosenberg on Nicki Minaj - Part 2
“Regardless of the time was good or not, the fact that she then pulled out and that Young Money pulled out, means I will never apologize for that.”
We have a feeling this beef is far from over. What are the things you see in this beef that is wrong?
