Followers of Nicki Minaj thought the rap star received her first Grammy tonight, however sadly, taking residence an award nonetheless eludes the Queen’s rapper.
Earlier within the day, The Recording Academy’s official account tweeted that Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s tune “Barbie World” from the Barbie World the Album received Greatest Rap Tune this 12 months.
Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice collaborated on the hit single “Barbie World,” which served because the fourth single from “Barbie: The Album.” The monitor additionally options Aqua, who sang the unique model of the tune.
The tune achieved industrial success, peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and was featured within the movie’s finish credit, marking a standout second for each artists within the 12 months.
Her followers are up in arms as a result of the tweet was untimely and completely fallacious as a result of Killer Mike’s album Michael swept the Rap classes, taking residence Greatest Rap Album, Greatest Rap Tune, and Greatest Rap Efficiency.
Killer Mike’s tune “Scientists & Engineers” beat out “Barbie World,” “Simply Wanna Rock” by Lil Uzi and “Wealthy Flex” by 21 Savage and Drake.
The flub has sparked extreme backlash since Nicki’s followers have been excited as a result of she has by no means received a Grammy Award. Apparently, Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World” was additionally erroneously posted because the winner on the Grammys’ official web site.
“idc in case you like nicki or not however please put stan stuff apart and simply suppose rationally for a second… so that you’re telling me the Grammys web site which had all the opposite proper winners by some means made a mistake with barbie world…? which by no means occurred EVER earlier than..?,” one indignant Barb wrote on Twitter.
“mistakenly” up to date nicki’s grammy artist profile with a win. mistakenly” introduced her because the winner through the official grammy web page. mistakenly up to date google w/ barbie world being the winner…@RecordingAcad is fraudulent,” one other disillusioned consumer raged.
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