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It all started whenQueenfailed to debut at No.
But is she correct in believing its the world vs. Nicki?
August 18:Nicki claims shes being bullied behind the scenes in a series of tweets.
I got the proof on that too.
This is what happens when you release a great body of work after they spent millions to ruin you.
4 albums later still breaking records.
#1 in 86 countries after they said it was a wrap.
Hes about to expose them.
They writing about 69 cuz#Queenis flawless.
Thats how theyve attempted to manipulated me.
Stops nowhttps://t.co/NSXZ9nZvNC
August 19: Nicki Minajs Queenofficially misses out on a No.
1 debut, coming in second behind Travis ScottsAstroworld, which spends its second week at No.
1.Billboardreportsthat her album sold 185,000 album equivalents to Scotts 205,000.
Thats even withQueenbeing Minajs highest-streamed album in the first week to date.
Travis sold over 50K of these.
With no requirement of redeeming the album!
With no dates for a tour, etc, she writes.
Travis sold over 50K of these.
With no requirement of redeeming the album!
With no dates for a tour, etc.
I spoke to him.
He knows he doesnt have the #1 album this week.
I love my fans for the #1 album in AMERICA!
(Billboardhas not commented.)
The precedent was set (and tweaked over time) whenBillboardwent back and forthon how to count PrincesMusicologybundle sales.
Simply put: free albums do not count toward the charts.
1 that week regardless of the final chart tally.
Kylie Jenner.Similarly to Travis, Nicki is annoyed at his girlfriend Kylie Jenners role in promoting the tour bundle.
Which is just straight out of the Kris Jenner marketing playbook.
Im actually laughing.#Queenbroke the record of being number 1 in 86 countries.
Thank Jesus & thank you to my fans.
She says Spotify told her theyd have to teach her a lesson.
Oh I cant wait for#QueenRadioon Tuesday.
I assumed it was on Spotify & Tidal at the same time.
Spotify said that Apple tweeted fans advising#Queenwas up & therefore they had to teach me a lesson.
But PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!!!!
Billboard.Oh, but shes not done yet!
(Again,Billboardhas not commented.)
I looked at the numbers the Carters, Kanye, Nas, etc recently did.
Travis sold 200K in his first week of clothes alone.
I spoke to him last night & he said hes been selling clothes b4 the music.
Billboard says theyll change the rules cuz of this, so it should be changed now!
Nicki ends her rant with the classic Just kidding.
People are calling me thinking Im huffing & puffing.
Omg yall this is sarcasm/dry humor.
Im having the most iconNIC time.
Come let me kiss you.
Whos coming to the secret show?
When people call me & hear me crackin up laughing they seem so puzzled.
Her song Bed actually saw an increase based on the promotions put behind the campaign.
The company continues to be big fans of Nicki.
1 album shouldnt be seated behind the runner-up, not because he feared a potential in-person incident with Minaj.
1 album in the country.
Tubman freed slaves; Minaj says she helped legitimize streaming.
All the QUEENS I remember, SHOOK SHIT UP!!!!!!!!
Queen of the week may go to HARRIET TUBMAN!!!!!!
Had she just sat there & ate her rice, you niggaz history wouldve been a lot less triumphant.
Yall I had no idea Harriet Tubman was now trending.
I said what I said.
#QueenRadiowill honor her tmrw.
She said she couldve rescued more slaves had they known they were slaves.
Without being called bitter or angry or a liar or crazy.
It only gets uglier from there: You stupid fuck.
You got your fucking homeboy talking for you and you got your girlfriend selling tour passes.
Knock it the fuck off.
I know Im that bitch, I know Im No.
(She gives Kylie a pass, however, saying she loves the Kardashian-Jenners.)
Switching subjects, she brings up her track record on helping streaming count toward theBillboardcharts.
(Billboardstarting counting streams as sales equivalents in 2014.)
Some of yall favorite artists need them streaming points.
Shout out to Chance the Rapper.
Let it be known Onika was one of those people fighting, she says.
You know how many bullets I took for you motherfuckers to get streaming to count onBillboard?
Do you know record companies are in business with these streaming services?
An artist signs a 360 [contract] and all their music pretty much goes to their label … And somewhere along the line he didnt get approved to perform by the powers that be.
I would never ever ever.
And it is what it is.
Thats just how it is.
So people have a lot to say because obviously the Nicki hate train is in full effect.
So I laugh, I dont give a fuck, yall cant stop me.
I aint going nowhere.
1 album: Having said that, none of this is some serious anger shit.
No we are in a time right now where black music is prospering.
But right is right and wrong is wrong.
The narrative they are trying to create is disgusting, she writes.
We got three days left, shetells her manager, Scooter Braun.
You dont know what Travis could pull!
where she declares Travis Scotts manager, Irving Azoff, as the Cocksucker of the Day.
SheaccusesAzoff of launching a smear campaign against her tour and persuading media outlets to negatively cover her tour.
(Azoff is the former CEO of Live Nation/Ticketmaster and, coincidentally or was it?
Page Six attributed the low ticket sales claim to an anonymous Live Nation source.Hmmmm.)
She also named Pitchfork Dick Rider of the Year in further response toan articlecriticizing her for working with 6ix9ine.
(Nicki spends the rest of the episode detailing how she also wink rides her men.)
Marry the two and its a no-brainer for success.
