Nicki Minaj’s Collab With Coi Leray Is Dropping Despite Benzino
By
Alejandra Gularte
After all of the drama, the “Blick Blick” collab between
Coi Leray and
Nicki Minaj is officially happening.
Nicki Minaj shared on Monday that she will be dropping a single with Leray, after Minaj previously pulled her verse. Leray’s father, musician and former owner of
The Source, Benzino,
leaked the collab a month ago on Clubhouse, causing Minaj to deny the rumors and privately pull out of the song. When a fan asked Minaj on Twitter if she really did consider pulling her verse after the drama with Benzino happened, Minaj
replied, “I did pull it. but the label hit me going hard. But rlly I had a private convo w|coi & that’s what changed my mind. Not the label. I just felt bad that she was robbed of telling the world in her own way @ her own time.” Minaj also said that she “loved” Coi’s “choices” on the track and respected her for writing her own work.
Now, Coi wants to separate her career from her father’s. “My dad has to realize that I’m my own person. Not only am I am artist, but ima young black WOMEN FIRST and he has to understand his actions and what he does can possibly affect me overall as a brand,” Coi
tweeted. “Most important part of it all is , all this is bringing me and him closer.” Benzino agrees with his daughter’s independence as he congratulated her and Minaj,
tweeting that he’s “just glad everything turned out well.” Coi and Benzino have had other disagreements about her music; she’s criticized her father in her song
“No More Parties” remix. After several heated Instagram Lives last year, where Coi doubled down on her feelings about her father, Coi
apologized for “stepping out of character” and that not everything “needed a response.” “Blick Blick” drops this Friday, March 18.