“Skeng Is The Future,” Nicki Minaj Dismisses ‘Dunce’ Fans Who Complain That She Stole His Song
Nicki Minaj has reacted to numerous complaints that she has taken over Likkle Miss, a song originally released by Dancehall artist Skeng, later remixed with the rapper and then recently extended with eight more features.
In her Instagram Stories yesterday, Minaj re-shared a Tweet by @bossgir160, which defended her remixes of the song.
“Thats y black people ever a fail because unu dunce and fool no FCK kmt,” @bossgir160 Tweet read. “The man [Skeng] a benefit from this if him did have problems him woulda tell her remove it…unu fi go suck unu mada man..happy people a get the shine international man.”
Some critics of the remixes have asserted that Skeng was relegated to a featured artist on his own track. However, Skeng is credited as a lead performer on each remix, along with the original song’s producers, DropTop Records and DiTruth Records.
One Jamaican Twitter user @az876g complained: “She knows what she doing, and she does it under the guise of giving dancehall a platform. But she really just waits for a dancehall hit, then takes the song as her own. Imagine you make a song, and then she comes on the remix, and puts it as her song, featuring you.”
The latest remix, dubbed ‘The Fine Nine’, features a slew of Caribbean female acts, namely Spice, Destra Garcia, Patrice Roberts, Lady Leshurr, Pamputtae, Dovey Magnum, Lisa Mercedez, and London Hill.
The powerhouse single quickly soared to the No. 1 spot on the US iTunes chart within mere hours of its October 6-release and remains seated in the top 5 on the platform’s Hip Hop/Rap charts. Additionally, the Likkle Miss Remix: The Fine Nine has taken up the top spots on Apple Music Top 100: Caribbean Islands charts placing No. 1 in Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago, No. 2 in Antigua and Barbuda, No. 4 in Grenada, No. 8 in the Cayman Islands and St. Kitts and Nevis and No. 10 in Anguilla.
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Nicki shared praises to all the featured ladies on the track, remarking how they “bodied” the beat while spitting some fire lyrics.
But there’s no one more commendable than the song’s originator, Skeng.
“Skeng is the future. Every thing Skeng touch is special. He’s different. I love him so much – y’all have no idea,” Minaj wrote in another Instagram Story yesterday. “No one is a bigger Skeng fan than me. NO ONE!!!”
She teased “stay tuned,” hinting that there may be something more to come from the two.
The Super Bass rapper first endorsed the Gvnman Shift deejay earlier in April when she started following him on social media and later followed up with a post of a 27-second clip of herself lip-syncing to his track, Street Cred.
That same month, she also hailed Skeng and Tommy Lee Sparta’s Protocol as the “baddest” song to be released in years” in a comment under the song’s YouTube video. “Dem nah run dem blokk, When we pull up them affi run lef dat,” she wrote quoting Tommy Lee Sparta’s lines from the track.