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How I Was Unable To Secure Nicki Minaj’s Verse On ‘Ur Waist’ — Iyanya
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Iyanya explains why he wasn’t able to feature Nicki Minaj on the “Ur Waist” remix.
The popular Nigerian musician Iyanya recently explained on Twitter why he was unable to get Nicki Minaj to feature in the remix of his song “Ur Waist.”
He detailed the entire incident, from the pressure to build on the success of “Kukere” to the failed attempt to work with Nicki Minaj, in a series of tweets on Thursday.
Iyanya claims that following the success of “Kukere,” he and his group decided to release “Ur waist” as their next single.
The song was also a huge success, and they decided to take it internationally by teaming up with Nicki Minaj.
They flew to Atlanta to meet with a contact who had direct connections to Nicki Minaj.
The acquaintance introduced them to numerous other celebs, including R. Kelly and 2chains, before arranging a meeting with Nicki Minaj.
However, when they did meet Nicki Minaj, they learned that they would have to pay her $200,000 to give them a verse.
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Even though they raised $70,000, they still fell short.
They tried calling everyone they knew, but they were unable to raise the money needed.
To make matters worse, they had already spent a large amount of money on flights, accommodation, and other costs.
They ultimately failed to obtain the collaboration and went back to Nigeria without a photograph or a collaboration.
See his tweets below;
On one beautiful morning we decided to remake “Kukere” and turn it into a new song that became “Ur waist” Bigups to @Therealdtunes changed everything and we recorded “Ur waist” and we were clear that was the next single.
— its iyanyaaaaaa💥 (@Iyanya) March 30, 2023
We started making contacts to who will get us Nicki Minaj and we found someone Who had direct contacts and he asked that we fly to Atlanta for a meeting with him and then he will take us to meet Nicki Minaj for the collaboration.
— its iyanyaaaaaa💥 (@Iyanya) March 30, 2023
Before we met Nicki Minaj our contact person had taken us to meet R.Kelly and 2chains, And a few other celebs who were in Atlanta at the time.
— its iyanyaaaaaa💥 (@Iyanya) March 30, 2023
Now here is the painful part, our tickets, Hotel for at least 10Days already, food and car hire service was already around $23,000 and then @ubifranklin1 started calculating that we for just stay Nigeria and added that money to our $70k 😂
We beg tire and nothing 💔— its iyanyaaaaaa💥 (@Iyanya) March 30, 2023
Story go continue later , make una used this Song wey I just drop hold body.
PLANS https://t.co/56bmeQbTYV— its iyanyaaaaaa💥 (@Iyanya) March 30, 2023
Our plan was take pictures send back home to give our chairmen Ginger to see we could raise the money, omo zero picture, zero collabo na so we return naija continue our Hustle.
To be continued…..https://t.co/56bmeQbTYV— its iyanyaaaaaa💥 (@Iyanya) March 30, 2023