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Nicki Minaj has now redirected her ire from other female rappers to Youtube.. at least for them moment. It started when Youtube put a age -restriction on her new Likkle Miss (Remix) music video with dancehall star Skillibeng. She made a series of posts accusing them of sabotaging her video release incude email screenshots warning her about violating their terms of service.
“This was done to stop us from getting a lot of views in the first 24 hours,” she wrote. “The DUDS at my label allow ppl to use my videos all the time to promote weak shit but said we can’t buy promo for my videos. @YouTube @YouTubemusic it’s time y’all tell ppl that you’re in bed with a whole RECORD LABEL & MNGMNT COMPANY!!!!!
“HOW LONG HAVE YALL BEEN PLAYING THE NUMBERS GAME TO LIE & PRETEND PPL R DOING ‘GOOD’ WHEN THEY R NOT?!?!? HOW MUCH AD SPACE DID THESE DUDS PURCHASE TO BE PROMOTED ON MY CHANNEL IN THE LAST 5 YEARS?!???!!!!”
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Then she went on and blamed Youtube’s Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen, the former president at Def Jam of being behind it all saying, “Imagine this. They restricted my fucking video but have things a million fucking times worse on their BOGUS FKNG PLATFORM. This is what they do to keep you from winning while doing ads for other ppl and posting FAKE FKNG STATS because of the same ppl who run YouTube are in bed with a certain record label and mngmnt company. GO SUCK OUT YA MUDDA BIG PUM PUM. LYOR IT BETTER NOT BE YOU.” This post she later deleted.
Her fan base went ballistic about the revelation of Nicki’s videos somehow being targeted and before you knew it, hours later the restriction had been lifted. She captioned the screenshot with “FUCK THEM DUDS. THEY CAN’T GIVE US BACK OUR FIRST 24 HOURS CAN THEY!?? SO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.”
It’s hard to tell the origins of Nicki being a target of Youtube but this isn’t new. Back in February New York City Mayor Eric Adams called for Youtube banning drill rap videos so it could be that the platform is paying more attention to rap artists in general. But now that this has been resolved, Nicki can go back to her regularly scheduled programming of beefing with the entire female rap industry again.
