Although there is no direct news that Nicki Minaj has left Young Money, the rapper has released all her music through Republic Records since 2021's Beam Me Up Scotty.
Nicki Minaj took to X on September 28, announcing that her Pink Friday 2 album had been directly released by Republic. Minaj had signed with Young Money in 2008 and released 7 albums under the record label.
"Pink Friday 2 album was directly through Republic, as well. They gave me an option to keep #YoungMoney on just the credits of the project. I chose to keep it for this one. But PF2 was directly through Republic Records."
More about Nicki Minaj's relationship with record label Young Money
Nicki Minaj was first discovered by Big Fendi and signed to his record label Dirty Money Entertainment for 180 days after which she joined Young Money in 2008, once Lil Wayne got associated.
During an interview with Hot 97, Nicki Minaj revealed that she was skeptical of signing the deal with Young Money saying:
"I never knew if this was real or not. He could wake up one day and sai, 'Nah, I changed my mind'."
She once admitted that she was booted out of the record label by Lil Wayne for a brief period after she had to leave a studio session to reach a show that she had previously booked.
During an episode of her Queen Radio show for Amazon Music's AMP Platform on March 3, the rapper mentioned that she was planning to launch her own record label as a subsidiary of Republic Records.
She hinted several artists including Nana Fofie, Tate Kobang, Rico Danna and London Hill were on her roaster.
"When I get behind an artist, y'all know how I do shit for people that's not even signed ot me. Imagine what Imma do for the ones that's signed."
She also added that her label would include other genres outside of rap:
"Don't think my label is just rap, or Black, or anything. We got some other genres of music."
During the radio show, she mentioned that she had been in contact with the co-president of Republic Records, Wendy Goldstein. She also added that she wanted to do it right and didn't want to do "little itty-bitty ting ting."
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