Nicki Minaj Turned Down Record Deal Because Label Wanted Her To Use Ghostwriters!!

Production team Full Force visited The Breakfast Club to celebrate the 30th anniversary of House Party earlier this week, where they revealed that Nicki Minaj once turned down a record deal because they wanted her to use ghostwriters.

They say that they began working with her, first when she was part of a rap group, then later as a solo artist, when they had a meeting with Kevin Liles at Warner Bros.

“At the time [the label] wanted Juelz Santana to write for her, and she refused,” said Paul Anthony. “Nicki always had a thing about writing her own sh*t.”

Nicki’s pen game has always been a massive deal for her and a fact she regularly uses to go at the competition. Nicki takes great pride in writing her own rhymes.

Back in 2018, she wroke down her writing process to Genius:

“I have written a song in my head in the shower,” she shared. “In terms of lyrics, I switched the approach to doing a reference type of mumble track on the beat. Whatever I do, the first time is usually the dopest flow. I like to keep that flow and then add words. I find it’s confining to write in the studio.”