How We Lost Millions Trying To Feature Nicki Minaj On ‘Ur Waist’ Song – Iyanya
Singer Iyanya has detailed the millions of naira his team spent to get Nicki Minaj to appear on the remix of his monster hit, ‘Ur Waist’ years ago.
The Nigerian artiste acknowledged that between 2012 and 2014 when Nicki was at the height of her success and both of them were at their best, he and Triple MG Boss Ubi Franklin attempted to collaborate with her.
He asserted that they discussed the next big single after Kukere was released and enjoyed enormous success. His music producer, Iyanya, asserts that D’Tunez changed the rhythm for Kukere and that they later used it to create “Your Waist,” which also received a lot of airplay.
According to him, Ubi Franklin resolved to make the song a global hit and Nicki Minaj should be a part of the remix. They began contacting individuals in this way, and they eventually made the connection to meet the Super Bass crooner.
The performer disclosed that after travelling to Atlanta to meet Nicki for the feature, they learned that it would cost $200,000 to sign her to a song.
So kukere was so massive we did all we could to get it out there and then came the pressure of the next single. We had “Flavour” already produced and recorded but for some reason we felt it wasn’t the next single after kukere.
On one beautiful morning we decided to remake “Kukere” and turn it into a new song that became “Ur waist” Bigups to @Therealdtunes changed everything and we recorded “Ur waist” and we were clear that was the next single. Ur waist was so massive we decided it should go international and we needed the right artiste to help with that journey. @ubifranklin1 suggested Nicki Minaj and I asked how we’re gonna pay for that, he laughed and said “if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough”
We started making contacts to who will get us Nicki Minaj and we found someone Who had direct contacts and he asked that we fly to Atlanta for a meeting with him and then he will take us to meet Nicki Minaj for the collaboration. @ubifranklin1 and I flew straight to Atlanta and we started meetings that will lead to the reason when we were in Atlanta.
Omo na so them start to carry us go club yo light bottles to show say money Dey omo no be person tell us to wise o. Before we met Nicki Minaj our contact person had taken us to meet R.Kelly and 2chains, And a few other celebs who were in Atlanta at the time. Oyaaaa the day don reach to meet Nicki Minaj, na so them come tell us say to get her on a verse we needed $200,000, we started making calls to raise the money, we pushed and we were able to raise $70,000 they said Nope. We called all the chairmen at on our contact list and nada.
Now here is the painful part, our tickets, Hotel for at least 10Days already, food and car hire service was already around $23,000 and then @ubifranklin1 started calculating that we for just stay Nigeria and added that money to our $70k. We beg tire and nothing
The last Night before we left Atlanta, we were invited to a studio and the message was “get there at 11:45pm no entry after 11:45pm @ubifranklin1 got a car ready for 9pm and the place was around Buckhead not far from our hotel(10mins) but we wanted to be there 2hours early
She show studio sha at 1:am, she didn’t come for our recording, she came for a diffident song, but our contact wanted us to know we he had the direct link to get her on a song. We tried to take pictures them tell us say we no fit take pictures.
Our plan was take pictures send back home to give our chairmen Ginger to see we could raise the money, omo zero picture, zero collabo na so we return naija continue our Hustle.”
Source – Tru News Report
