Nicki Minaj's absence from her own album suggests artists are avoiding her as a collaborator. The speaker argues her early struggles shaped a mindset where she expects newer artists to endure hardship, and her reputation for negative reactions makes her seem unapproachable to work with, despite her loyal fanbase.
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If their name is not on the Pink Friday 2, they're not a heavy on it artist. I feel like Nicki is one of those people that because they had a hard time when they first got in the industry, meaning they didn't have good deals, they had people bullying them into making bad decisions, that BBL, you know, they feel like they should be able to make the people coming up behind them do those same things. I should be able to punk you the way Wayne and them punked me. Now she has the Barbz, which are gonna always support her, but at the end of the day, all means is that you have barbs to support what you have going on. That does not mean that other people are going to want to work with you. Like, you actually have to be somebody that people want to work with in a real way, not just by image, but also as a person. And she just comes off as somebody that don't nobody want to deal with, because as soon as you say something she don't like, she gonna be in her basement whispering into a microphone about you.