*Nicki Minaj continues to rail against any and all who speak ill about her new album “Queen” or its delayed tour, and her latest ire is directed squarely at Travis Scott’s co-manager Irving Azoff.
The rapper has taken issue with Scott’s new album “Astroworld” topping hers on the Billboard 200 chart, and has accused the rap star of both “bundling” his album with other merchandise to boost sales, and using the massive social media presence of his girlfriend Kylie Jenner to promote it. On her Beats 1 radio show, she labeled Scott “hoe n**ga of the week.”
On Thursday, she turned her ire toward Scott’s co-manager Irving Azoff, whom she accuses of trying to sabotage her tour by calling media outlets to falsely report that the U.S. leg was cancelled instead of postponed.
“The c—sucker of the day is Irving Azoff,” she told her Queen Radio audience. “And I’m gonna tell you why. Allegedly, he tried to put out a smear campaign against my tour, and contacted people in the media to spread negative things about my tour.”
She talked about his influence at Ticketmaster — he stepped down as CEO of Live Nation/Ticketmaster more than five years ago — and said “May God be with you, Irving. It’s disgusting what these people have been systematically trying to do.”
As previously reported, Minaj’s North American tour with Future was postponed earlier this week, citing production issues. The Live Nation-backed tour is now scheduled to begin Feb. 21 in Germany before swinging back to the states in May. A number of media outlets reported that the postponement was due to low ticket sales and that her U.S. leg was actually cancelled.
Nicki heatedly denied those reports, stating in an Instagram post that it was simply rescheduled because she didn’t have enough time to rehearse.
“I haven’t CANCELLED anything,” she wrote, in part. “I reversed the order of the US & EUROPEAN LEGS of my tour. This is for obvious reasons to anyone with a brain. My album was originally going to drop in June which would’ve given me 3 months of tour rehearsal. However, I was still writing & recording up to last week. We are all grown right? We can all do math right? Or will they just pretend to not have basic sense so that they can board the Nicki Hate train & get some clicks? I can’t rehearse 4 WEEKS for a tour I originally planned on rehearsing 3 months for. I give my fans QUALITY.”
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