‘Universal’ Appeal: Nicki Minaj To Collaborate With…The Weeknd

Published: Sunday 13th Sep 2015 by David
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Universal Music struck gold (or multi-platinum) when they watched Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj razzle and dazzle the charts with the song ‘Bang Bang.’

So, after watching their act The Weeknd push his way to the top with his new album ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’ the label has now seen him join forces with Minaj to create brand new material.

Sound exciting?

Dying to know more?

Meet us after the jump…

So, here’s how the conversation about their forthcoming duet came to be.

The pair bumped into each other at a New York Fashion Week event hours ago and posed for pictures together. Then, once they’d finished getting their Naomi Campbell on Minaj asked the ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ maestro if he had her details.

What happened next?

Hit the one minute mark.

Exciting stuff!

Their creative coupling may seem odd to those unfamiliar with their respective album tracks but those who are familiar with them will know that it makes perfect sense.

Minaj’s love for the Irish singer Enya and Lisa Fischer has seen her venture into serene and occasionally moody musical territory with the likes of ‘Here I Am‘, ‘Put You In A Room’ and ‘I Lied’, all of which we could hear Abel sounding stellar on.

Here’s hoping we get to hear what they cook up sooner rather than later.

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  1. shakira stan September 13, 2015

    Still won’t give her a one single ….bye fake ass and I mean literally .

    • jewels September 13, 2015

      She doing just fine without a #1 single, sit your ugly ass down…

      • shakira stan September 13, 2015

        Same thing your papa told your mama.b****

  2. Kay for tonibraxton September 13, 2015

    Sounds cool I’m a fan of the weekend, I know they will do justice if they collaborate

    • toohotfortv September 13, 2015

      I guess. But has no one heard of his issues with misogynoir. It’s said that he literally hates black women. If I was Nicki (or any other black performer, but especially women), I’d think twice about working with him. I’d at least do my research and make sure the rumors were unfounded. Otherwise, he’s just exploiting you.

  3. #TeamTinashe Stan September 13, 2015

    All this extreme promo for Nicki. I’m sorry but it’s weird how her last album isn’t near platinum, not concerned about it going platinum but why not NEAR? 1K a week is a struggle for such a big artist like her.

    She better leach onto The Weeknd. It shall be an interesting one ❤

    • k September 13, 2015

      Nicki isn’t doing anything new, she always been ft with people.so because her album isn’t platinum yet. all of a sudden her collabs is seen as leach to you now, get a da f-ck out of her, i can’t believe nicki had your fav on her turn when it didn’t work out on iggy tour, yet you been hating on Nicki like crazy you ungrateful piece of sh!t.

    • nicko September 13, 2015

      1k a week ? The album sold 10k last week :-/ n is close to 1M WW despite not being out for a year yet.

  4. Arianator Barb September 13, 2015

    YAAAASSSS HONEY!!! For you no life having trolls, shut the f*** up about charts for once and just enjoy some damn music

    • lol September 13, 2015

      Is that you?

      • Arianator Barb September 13, 2015

        Yes

    • Isaiah September 13, 2015

      Her album sold 9k last week and 2k consistently for the past 5 weeks ????

      • Carey Like Mariah September 13, 2015

        Do you have an Instagram? @Arianator Barb ???? lmao jk but not really. ????

  5. G4L September 13, 2015

    Nicki has collages with everyone and their mama.
    I prefer artists who don’t w**** their art out to anyone

    • Barb-wire September 13, 2015

      Bothered???

    • jewels September 13, 2015

      it’s a good thing that no one gives a flying fkkk about what you prefer though

  6. Barb-wire September 13, 2015

    OMG! The slayage that will befall upon y’all hoezzz… I can’t wait..

  7. african music lover September 13, 2015

    God bless that hair…

  8. Rhiannon Fenty September 13, 2015

    Still waiting for that no#1 single

  9. Centurion September 13, 2015

    I smell an album re-release. The Pink Print has yet to scan 1 million WW. That is really embarrassing btw. Nicki’s label and herself, since she’s on a 360 deal, probably made little to no returns with this project. #Tragic

    • k September 13, 2015

      she wont re-release it, and i hope she doesn’t it’s a great album in my opinion, Nicki is fine the way i see it. she needs to do her thing with her collabs and ft then re-release another album.nothing is embarrassing about the albun not going platinum the album not being plat doesnt mean the album is bad some of y’all need to stop judging an album quality off sales.

    • nicko September 13, 2015

      How is that embarrassing ? The album hasnt been out for a year n lets not forget that its one of the few albumd that went gold this yr n received other certifications as well. Since the era started Nicki’s had multi-plat, plat, gold singles n top 10 hits. N the pinkprint was by far her most successful tour ever. The album selling 1M WW wont stop her from being on Forbes ????

  10. Rosie September 13, 2015

    Screaming at her waiting until he blew the F***. up to collab with him. What about back when he was the hottest new artist back in 2012 and had massive critical acclaim? Was that because Urban was his main audience? What about when both Kiss Land sold almost 100K first week with no hits? She’s such a blatant hit chaser lmaooooo

    • jewels September 13, 2015

      he reached out to her though…

    • September 13, 2015

      b**** stop lying Nicki been collabing with people at every level, she didn’t wait on till anything.your hating @ss will twist anything Nicki does in to a negative you need to get a life.

  11. Rosie September 13, 2015

    Also I’m listening to this MQ leak of Honeymoon and this is by far Lana her worst album, all this time haters have been using “sleep!!1” as a drag when this is like a mix of BTD/UV b-sides without anything that made those interesting. I’ll wait until it leaks in HQ for final judgement but rn go ahead and place first week sales estimates since I likely won’t be here for the lashings this upcoming Saturday when HDD projects like 90K.

    • ANDREW September 13, 2015

      I feel like it’s too soon for her to release a major LP, honeymoon could have been an EP

      • Rosie September 13, 2015

        The entire era seems rushed, from the cheap ass cover to the FL studio demo “muddy trap” beat on some of the songs like Art Deco (even though it’s still one of the best songs on the album). She should’ve waited until 2016, now there’s legitimately no hype for it and it’ll struggle to do Florence #s in the U.S. She’ll probably sell less than Foals in the UK. A mess, BTD is almost at 1 million there.
        Speaking of Foals: not sure if I replied to your mention of them selling 6K first week in the U.S., which was expected. Holy Fire sold the same and debuted ~30 spots lower even with SPS not being included back then.

      • ANDREW September 13, 2015

        Foals really have the potential to break out the way Imagine dragons did their latest record has a few radio friendly songs but I just hope they step up their promo game in the US.
        Any other interesting releases to look forward to this quarter? I’ve been paying attention to youth lagoon and I’m really loving his stuff

    • truth September 13, 2015

      Love lana but she won’t do more then 50k…. her time is up, she missed her oppratuntity to do something really great

  12. jewels September 13, 2015

    Love them both, ready to be slayed down!

  13. RDK September 13, 2015

    love them both can’t wait to hear the song.

  14. nicko September 13, 2015

    I really cant at ppl acting like The Pinkprint flopped. The album went gold in the US, silver in the UK n gold in brazil. Nicki only promoted the album with 4 music videos (she usually releases more than just 4 MVs.) Multiple songs from the album are either gold, plat or multi-plat. And The Pinkprint tour was successful as well. @Rosie, once again, u stan for LANA DEL BORE. How dare u ? She has never been as relevant as Nicki n never will.

  15. What now September 13, 2015

    IDGAF how many thumbs down muah gets, this is so f***** up. The Weeknd better not do it. I swear I will no longer be a stan.

    • September 13, 2015

      f-ckoff then, he didn’t need people like you in the first anyways.if you are going to drop him because he collab with someone you don’t like.

  16. RihYonce September 13, 2015

    Can’t wait to hear the song !

  17. Meteorite September 14, 2015

    -sighs- While I did like the song her and Robin Thicke collaborated on together, I must at admit that I have mixed feelings about it and Nicki. Reason being that ever since that whole Twitter/ VMA thing, I’ve looked at her differently. Because of social media and the like, I take her work less seriously, which shouldn’t be the case. Like the lady on The View said “whatever happened to graciousness? Susan Lucci went 20 years being nominated and never won and she never complained. She said she loved what she did and was glad to have a job.” So if Nicki only cares about winning awards, and from MTV no less, then her priorities are not right. She can’t get mad and play the race card because Beyoncé a black woman was nominated. Yeah you video broke records but it was forgettable. Anyone can make a video and shake their a s s. Let’s be real about that
    I miss the days before social media ruined everything and when your music and talent had to speak for itself. It’s all a big joke now. But whatever

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