Last year, Nicki Minaj‘s feud with Hot 97 DJ/personality Peter Rosenberg came to a head during the 2012 Summer Jam. After Rosenberg routinely mocked Nicki’s pop hit “Starships” on his radio show, and after he dissed her during Summer Jam, the Young Money rapstress refused to perform. The move sparked some criticism, but Minaj was defended by Young Money head Lil Wayne. Rosenberg has since stated that he would like to bury the hatchet, and with Minaj’s appearance on Hot 97 this week, he finally made good on the promise.
But despite Rosenberg’s almost three-minute apology, Minaj made it clear that she isn’t feeling the radio host.
“That’s cool,” Minaj said when Rosenberg apologized to her for nearly three minutes. “It’s water under the bridge. Yeah. I mean, it’s so long ago, I can’t even act like I care anymore. Like, I don’t care. I really don’t. But, I appreciate you guys having me. [The Barbz,] they don’t like you at all. They hate you.”
She did concede that she probably should have performed despite the perceived disrespect. “This is the thing, in hindsight, I should have just come,” she admitted. “I should have just did [sic] the show because I’ve never allowed anyone [to] make me let my fans down. And even if it wasn’t a Nicki Minaj fan, just a fan in general, somebody who was there who paid to see the show, I think in hindsight, I should have just came [sic] out for my own town, especially, and they shouldn’t have been brought into whatever we were going through. So I wish I would have come out and did the show and I apologize for not coming out and doing the show because they had nothing to do with that.”
Minaj also added that she probably would’ve been less annoyed had the criticisms come from more established Hot 97 personalities as opposed to Rosenberg.
“I get it, that’s what you do, but to me, I just don’t know your résumé,” Nicki added. “I never found you funny, I never found you entertaining, I never found you smart, I just found you annoying because, you know, I grew up in New York, well, I’ve grown up on Hot 97. I know Angie [Martinez] and I know [Funkmaster] Flex and Mister Cee and all these people and whether they like me or whether we get along, I just know their résumé, so that’s why it was so easy for me to pick up the phone and talk to Flex like, ‘What the f— are you talking about?’ But like with you, I was like, ‘Who are you?’ To me, you don’t have enough of a résumé to make those comments but you know, you did, and it is what it is. For whatever reason, our paths were meant to cross like that.”
