Nicki Minaj is formally launching her personal file label.
The famous person rapper introduced the massive information throughout her Queen Radio present on Friday (March 3), revealing that the brand new label’s artist roster consists of Nana Fofie, Tate Kobang, Rico Danna and London Hill.
“I’ve a file label now,” Minaj mentioned, teasing that the corporate’s title shall be revealed at a later date. “Once I get behind an artist, y’all know the way I do s— for those who’s not even signed to me. Think about what I’ma do for those that’s signed.”
Minaj mentioned that her longtime affiliate Patty Lauren (aka Patty Duke) will serve in an A&R function on the new label.
The Queen of Rap’s first single of 2023, “Pink Ruby Da Sleeze,” dropped Friday by way of Younger Cash/Republic. It marks her first solo tune since final 12 months’s Billboard Sizzling 100-topping smash “Tremendous Freaky Woman.”
On Friday’s Queen Radio present, Minaj informed listeners that she was texting with Republic Information co-president Wendy Goldstein, who was encouraging her to make the label announcement throughout this system.
“I mentioned, ‘Wendy, we bought to do that huge. I’m a feminine; you a feminine, mamma. You bought to do that proper. We gotta do it proper. I don’t need no little itty-bitty ting ting. I need to do it proper,’” the rapper mentioned.
Minaj added that her new file label will function a wide range of musical acts. “Don’t assume my label is simply rap, or Black, or something,” she mentioned. “We bought another genres of music.”
Minaj additionally touched on the influential function Lil Wayne performed early in her profession, and the way she hopes to do the identical for up-and-coming artists on her label.
“Once I got here on this recreation I didn’t don’t have any paperwork with Lil Wayne. However he had us on tour, he had us in a studio, he was getting on my mixtapes,” she mentioned. “So I perceive the significance of getting any person else doing the heavy lifting for you. I perceive why persons are popping out and so they’re so, you already know, microwaveable and so they’re right here in the present day and gone tomorrow, as a result of there’s no construction. There’s no actual person who believes in them. That’s like, ‘Nah, I’m gonna make it my enterprise to see you shine.’”
Take heed to a replay of Queen Radio by way of Amp, and take a look at in-studio pictures from Friday’s present on Minaj’s Instagram beneath.
