Nicki Minaj On “Pinkprint” Release After Safaree Split: “You Can Be Destroyed By A Man”

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

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Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj recently talked about her The Pinkprint solo album and her decision to enter the recording process despite a publicized breakup from fellow rapper Safaree Samuels.

Although she refrained from name-dropping Safaree, Nicki admitted her personal life seeped into the album’s overall content.

“I didn’t [set out] to write a personal album, but The Pinkprint came at a very crucial time in my life. I realized that people can up and take off at any given moment. As women, we are vulnerable and emotional, and that’s OK. I had to learn quickly that if you don’t have a sense of self, you can be destroyed by a man. You can be destroyed by a relationship. I had to ask myself, ‘Who am I? Is this good enough?’ I had to approve of myself and my skills.” (Cosmopolitan)

New York radio station Hot 97 host Ebro slammed Safaree for speaking out on his relationship to Nicki publicly earlier this year.

“I spoke to Nicki yesterday and she was upset about all of this and I just told her to be patient because in a few weeks this will all be gone and no one will be talking about your ex and your old relationships, but she was most upset about the idea that someone else was writing her rhymes. He asserted that there was help. When you look at Nicki Minaj’s album credits, there’s a lot of people that work on albums… But when you assert that somebody wrote your rhymes – you know that’s Nicki’s thing. But I told you that’s why he did it, because he knew that would hurt you.” (Hot 97)

Ebro also questioned why Safaree did not take the time to venture out with his own business ventures.

“Like how you with Nicki Minaj and you can’t play the back my G? You know he was chilling get cars, motorcycles, living in the houses, all dat. You can’t just kick back, start a business? Buy a Dunkin Donuts, a Wing Stop, my G?” (Hot 97)

Samuels defended his decision to not bash Nicki in the media a few months back.

“I would never do anything publicly to try and pull her down. Whatever happens between me and her one on one, it is what is, you know and that’s personal and I would never put that out there. I could be out here telling a million stories and doing cornball sh*t like that, but I’m not going to do that, I never would do that and I never plan on doing that.” (“The Breakfast Club”)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

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  1. Smh just like any attention seekin Ho, milkin the breakup for sympathy. Obviously we know y’all broke up, a song here and there, but a whole damn Album?? GFOH!!! Meek sensitive ass must not Hittin right if u still thinkin about the other ninja

      • Sorry ain’t nobody exempt from criticisms …nigga they hated on Jesus!!! Who is Meek?? Listen B, this can’t be normal, she stays talking about her ex while she with a “real nigga”…you damn right we asking WTF!!

  2. This chick is a ugly person on the inside, that’s why she got all this surgery done. Ever chance she gets she puts how the breakup hurt her and how SB ruined her and this and that. Her ex BF though, never said anything negative always positive things about her.
    Women in their feelings again .

  3. come on babe,,,you blew up and then u gotta rid of the one who was there from jump street,,typical story,,stop playn da sympathy card like ol boy did u wrong. heres a free idea sohh,, do sumpn on rappers/hip hop stars or entertainers in general and there original boo’s ,,u will see what I mean,,start with biggie smalls haha,,

    • if Nicki wanted to get reed of dude she could have done that along time ago,Nicki was hot way before her first album, she could have drop dude from that time. something happen and it didn’t work out sh-t happens. so don’t run on here with that cr@p her time with dude ofter she got rich makes your comment invalid, so you can fall back with that cr2p.

      • Yep, I guess people forget that report that he hit her in a hotel and then it didn’t go anywhere because she didn’t press charges. But I guess people take any reason to hate some people.

  4. Nicki needs Safaree to ghostwrite for her again since her new single failed to chart

  5. I hate that this chick had him hiding in the closet, talking about “he is my very good friend”, but when dude got tired of being in the closet and being disrespected by other dudes as if he didn’t exist, so he bounced. Now you wanna claim like you the victim? Fuk out of here wit that. You didn’t claim the relationship when you was in it so don’t be boo hooing now that you are broken up. If you claimed that nigga and showed love and not let every other nigga hang all over you. He probably wouldn’t have left.

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