After performing some reflecting, DJ Drama admits to a couple regrets. His impression on Hip Hop doesn’t want defending as Drama is without doubt one of the most celebrated DJs and producers within the recreation. His Gangsta Grillz sequence has lasted for many years, and from one era to the following, artists are clamoring for a possibility so as to add their names to his checklist of collaborators. Whereas chatting with Bootleg Kev on his podcast, Drama revisited a second in 2008 when he was working with Gucci Mane on their Gangsta Grillz undertaking, The Film. The mixtape was purported to characteristic a glance from Nicki Minaj, however Drama switched issues up.
On the time, Minaj was only some years into her skilled profession. She was nonetheless establishing her relationships, proving her abilities, and competing for consideration in a Hip Hop boys’ membership. She didn’t have a lot nationwide or world visibility, so DJ Drama determined it was greatest to take her off the undertaking, all collectively. In hindsight, he needs he didn’t make that transfer. “When he introduced it to me, the primary music on the tape, the primary voice you heard on the tape was Nicki Minaj,” Drama mentioned.
DJ Drama Made Issues Proper
Drama didn’t need followers to listen to the voice of a lesser-known artist from the onset. “Clearly, that is an early Nicki Minaj. And disrespectfully, I felt like we are able to’t have a Gangsta Grillz with me and Gucci, and the primary voice you heard not be Gucci, so I eliminated her verse from that music. I really feel horrible to at the present time.” Nonetheless, he did make issues proper, in his personal method, by together with Minaj in Lil Wayne’s Dedication 3 undertaking that very same yr. Minaj made positive her voice was heard.
“‘Dram, please don’t let the tape come out with out me on there,’” Drama recalled Nicki telling him. “And I mentioned, ‘I bought you.’ So Nicki Minaj is on Dedication 3 instantly as a result of I made positive she was on there.” The Queens icon has lengthy mentioned the roadblocks she experienced early on in her profession—and all through. Minaj has been open about struggling to earn respect whereas her male friends have navigated a neater route.
Deb Antney Claims Gucci Didn’t Like Nicki
In the meantime, music government Deb Antney beforehand make clear the connection between Gucci Mane and Nicki Minaj. Antney used to handle each artists, however based on her, Gucci “couldn’t stand” Minaj as a result of she refused his sexual advances. It’s unclear if this additionally contributed to the exclusion on his mixtape years in the past, nevertheless it actually has followers speaking.
