Nicki Minaj and DJ Funk Flex buried the hatchet in a recent interview on Hot 97 during her press run for Queen.
Funkmaster Flex has been vocally critical of Nicki Minaj in the past, and it’s caused some major tension between the two. Following the release of “Chun-Li,” which Flex showed his support for on-air, Flex and Nicki have gradually warmed to each other, and it’s led to the two working out their differences on his Hot 97 show.
Before getting to any other subjects, Minaj and Flex got to the bottom of Flex’s issues. “I had no clue what you was mad at,” said Nicki. “I was being opinionated, Did you feel like I was attacking you?” he responded. “Of course,” said Minaj, suggesting the digs came off as personal. “It felt like more than about my music.”
Flex went on to explain his perspective. “I’ve always been a fan of your music,” he said. “I felt there was a couple songs that got super commercial. While I was watching you go back and forth with your music… the one with Drake and Wayne… I couldn’t pinpoint it at the time, maybe I felt you didn’t have it. But now when I hear stuff like “Dreams,” and I hear the music now… I may have felt you were getting a little lazy with the music [before]… “Chun-Li” changed me around, you know, I liked that song. My opinion is not the end-all-be-all.”
Later, Nicki said that she’s receptive to criticism as long as its fair. From there, Minaj definitely did not hold back. She shared some unknown stories about Young Money and Lil Wayne and re-iterated that she always writes her own raps and wants you to respect her pen.
The conversation about her pen game came about because Flex noted that her ex-boyfriend Safaree was doubling back on his claims that he wrote for her. Nicki went on a mini rant and ended up spilling tea saying that he was paying prostitutes and stealing her credit cards, which helped lead to the end of their relationship. Yikes! Check out the FULL interview below:
