It has been several years since Kanye West released “Monster” and Nicki Minaj’s guest verse is still one of the best of his career, despite the fact that the world hardly ever heard it. At one point, West wanted to reject the song entirely. At another time, I wanted to release “Monster”, only without Minaj’s surprising verse. West blamed his own ego for almost getting in the way of one of Minaj’s bright moments.
The story behind Kanye West’s ‘Monster’
“Monster” is a song with an incredible list of talents. West, Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Bon Iver are on the song. According to HipHopDX, Miaj called West and Jay-Z “icons”. She never anticipated rapping a song with one of them, much less both. Despite facing competition from all those artists, many fans and critics felt that Minaj stole the show.
MTV News reports that Rick Ross, one of the featured artists on the song, knew that Mianj’s verse was dynamite when he first heard it. Ross previously respected Minaj as an artist, but hearing her verse on “Monster” made her respect Minaj as a lyricist for the first time. He felt that his verse was one of the best rap verses of the year and proved that Minaj was one of the best rappers in the world.
Why did Kanye West almost reject the song as a whole and Nicki Minaj’s verse?
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According to MTV News, Minaj and West spoke on the phone about the song for an hour. I had to convince her that “Monster” was worthy of a place in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. West told Minaj that she thought her verse would capture the most attention of all the verses on the album. Minaj was skeptical, feeling that West would outshine her.
At one point, West considered including “Monster” in Dark fantasy without Minaj’s verse. “It was like that moment when I thought about removing Nicki’s verse from ‘Monster’ because I knew people would say it was the best verse on the best hip-hop album of all time or possibly the top ten albums of all time. times, “West said, according to Inquisitr. “And I would do all that work, eight months of work in Dark fantasy and people to this day were saying to me ‘My favorite thing was Nicki Minaj’s verse. “
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West said his ego made him think it was a good idea to delete Minaj’s verse. However, she ultimately did not do that. Fans can thank you for letting them hear one of Minaj’s best verses.
The impact of ‘Monster’
According to Billboard, “Monster” only reached number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was not a great success for West, who previously released singles that were much more popular than that. However, the song received an incredible amount of criticism. Additionally, the song’s controversial music video gained a lot of attention, propelling Minaj to new heights of fame.
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