Nicki Minaj Slams Jay-Z Over Tidal Deal, Asks About Diddy Connection

Nicki Minaj didn’t maintain again when setting the file straight about her half in Jay-Z’s music streaming service sale of Tidal, claiming each he and Steve Stoute are spreading lies.

File government Stoute, 54, alleged earlier this month that Jay-Z gave Minaj, 41, “fairness” in Tidal previous to its sale in 2021.

Stoute claimed throughout “The Pivot” podcast on Friday, September 20, that Minaj “didn’t signal the f—ing paperwork that’s the rationale why you left thousands and thousands of {dollars} on the desk.” He additional alleged that Jay-Z, 54, “didn’t do nothing to you.”

Minaj, nevertheless, remembered the Tidal deal in another way, alleging in a series of tweets on Saturday, September 21, that she was informed “they made no cash on the deal so all they may provide me was one million {dollars}.”

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The “Barbie World” singer claimed {that a} lawyer suggested her to “signal the settlement in 24 hours if I needed the $1 million or the ‘provide’ was off the desk.” Minaj didn’t take the deal, telling her followers she was “scammed” and supplied $1 million in an try and “be silenced.”

Minaj continued to touch upon the sale scandal after seeing a narrative that claimed she was one in all 16 Tidal co-owners who “reportedly acquired $8.9 million payout” on the time. (Sq. cofounder Jack Dorsey paid $297 million in money and shares for a “important majority” of Tidal in 2021, based on Vox.)

“Daily a brand new man pushing 60 years of age will get fingered within the bussy then made to come back on this web & lie on me,” she wrote by way of X, earlier than advising Stoute and Jay-Z to “by no means point out my title once more.”

Minaj went on to say that the rationale Jay-Z and Stoute — who’s the CEO of UnitedMasters and shut pal of Jay-Z — turned the deal with her is in order that “nobody asks about these prices in opposition to their BFF,” referring to Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Diddy, 54, was arrested on September 16 after a grand jury indicted him amid a federal investigation. Diddy pleaded not responsible to prices of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.

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“I imply it appears the 30-year-old tea right here is FAR from stale. Patterns. But. SAS, UGLY ALIEN, STOUT, dick breath, and many others. all speaking about Onika? Why they speaking bout Oniqua?!?!?!” Minaj, whose actual title is Onika Maraj-Petty, wrote via X on Saturday, as soon as once more speaking about Diddy and his internal circle.

She alleged that “undercover males are all the time aggravated with ladies b/c THEY have determined that they’ll’t reside in THEIR reality.” Minaj then questioned whether or not Stoute and Jay-Z had any information of Diddy’s previous abuse as they continued to slam her for the Tidal deal.

“We need to know if u had been current throughout abuse of youngsters & kids. That’s what we wanna know,” Minaj tweeted. “Did u know in regards to the abuse to Kim Porter & Cassie? Yall appeared to all the time run in a sorta … RAT PACK.”

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Cassie, 38, was Diddy’s girlfriend on and off from 2007 to 2018. In a November 2023 lawsuit, she accused him of sexual abuse, beating her and forcing her to take medication and have intercourse with male prostitutes on digital camera. Diddy’s lawyer denied the accusations on his behalf. In the future after she filed, the case was settled.

Porter, in the meantime, was Diddy’s on-again, off-again girlfriend from 1994 to 2007. The pair welcomed three kids earlier than Porter died of lobar pneumonia in 2018 on the age of 47. When footage of Diddy assaulting Cassie surfaced, Kim’s father, Jake Porter, stated he was “disgusted” by Diddy’s actions.

When requested by Rolling Stone in June whether or not Jake ever noticed Diddy bodily abuse his late daughter, he replied “no.” Jake added that something he had seen was by no means “to that extent,” nevertheless it “made [him] surprise.”

Us Weekly has reached out to the Tidal workforce, Jay-Z and Diddy for remark.