Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj feud update
Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj have had some time to process the seething rage that was so evident during last year's season of American Idol, but they haven't. The two have instead decided to update the feud with a new album release date war. Mariah is mad that Nicki dropped a song and video from her record on the very same day as her 4-year in the making album opus. Truth is, Minaj is just in a hurry to get some money coming in, now that she has a $30 million law suit hanging over her head.
If Mariah Carey was close to getting over her feud with hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj, she definitely isn't now. Carey had put four years of her life into her new album The Art of Letting Go, only to have its unveiling over shadowed by Minaj's release of a new song from The Pink Print.
In a recent radio interview Mariah let it be known that she is not up for discussing Nicki Minaj or even acknowledging she exists, when asked about their prior relationship (via In Touch): "Who? I don't even remember what that was. I was a complete professional. That was a moment of my life that I'm just going to press delete on."
Though the real truth behind Minaj rushing her album to stores may having more to do with the multi-million dollar lawsuit filed against her by her former hair stylist. Terrence Davidson is alleging that Nicki not only had other people duplicate his designs, she's directly making money off them by selling the hair pieces on her website.
Davidson's lawyer Christopher Chestnut told CNN that Minaj is trading on a brand that his client helped build, but for which he has never been compensated: "Nicki Minaj is reaping great success and financial bounty reward for Terrence's creative expertise, and he is entitled to participate in that. We applaud the fact that she's making millions, but she's also got to pay bounty to those whose creative designs she's making millions off of. On its face, you might think what this guy is suing over is wigs, but we really have to consider this in context. Hair is a multibillion-dollar industry: But moreover, these are not your grandma's wigs. These are eclectic. They are decadent, and they are creative. This is about a brand that Terrence has built."
Bet Mariah is glad nobody helped her design those legs. (Classicalite)
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