Nicki Minaj speaks out as hit song Super Freaky Girl is moved from Grammys rap category to pop

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Nicki Minaj on Thursday spoke out in protest after a report that her single Super Freaky Girl will compete in the Grammys pop category, despite her submitting it as a rap song.She took to Instagram Stories after source told The Hollywood Reporter that the Recording Academy’s rap committee denied her request for the track - which landed in the top spot upon its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this past August - to compete in the rap category.'They stay moving the goalposts when it comes to me, because in order for them to uplift the people who they want to shine,' she said. 'The people who these corporate giants can make the money off of; the people who control a lot of things behind the scenes - they have to elevate someone that they profit off.

They must move the goalposts for me, all the time.' The latest: Nicki Minaj, 39, on Thursday spoke out in protest after a report that her single Super Freaky Girl will compete in the Grammys pop category, despite her submitting it as a rap songMinaj, 39, said 'there is a concerted effort to give newer artists things that they really don't deserve over people who have been deserving for many years,' and that 'soon, female rap will really not have any Black women.'She continued: 'This is not to say any song is bad or any female rapper is bad ...

but why is the goalpost only ever moved when it's Nicki?' Minaj said that decision-makers in the industry don't want artists they have a vested interest in to 'go up against' her.'What do you think is gonna happen when they start voting on these pop categories and its a bunch of these people ...

white and older, wherever they're from,' to have to choose between her and stars such as Adele and Harry Styles. She took to Instagram Stories.