Nicki Minaj Says Kanye West Rejected Her Yeezy Collab Because Kim Kardashian ‘Wouldn’t Love’ the Idea

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Fashion flashback. A Yeezy collaboration with Nicki Minaj was once on the table, but it turns out Kanye West turned the 39-year-old singer down because he didn’t think then-wife Kim Kardashian “would love that idea.” The “Bang Bang” singer explained in a Wednesday, March 9, interview on Joe Budden TV that she originally approached the Donda singer, 44, following her successful “Fendi Prints On” drop in October 2019. “I told Kanye, I was like, ‘Hey, I’m about to do something and I just wanted to make sure I spoke to your first.’ I have so much respect for him,” Minaj told Budden. “He was like, ‘Well, if I did something with you … my wife probably wouldn’t love that idea because I should be giving that to my wife instead.

If I was doing a female version of Yeezy it should probably go to my wife.” This conversation was between Minaj and West was a “while ago,” when West and Kardashian were still together.

While the Grammy Award winner completely understood where West was coming from, she did make a point to address the importance of uplifting other Black creators in the industry. “We have to be careful when we say things.

Kanye was very vocal about the fashion industry not letting him in at one time, so if a Black female rapper, who you know has just shown herself to be sellable in the space … then when I come to you as a Black man that I look up to, I’m doing that because you inspired me,” Minaj explained.