By Taiwo Okanlawon
American rapper, Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, has hinted at ditching hip-hop for pop.
The ‘Queen of rap’ who is currently on her Pink Friday 2 tour said she was considering making more pop songs than hip-hop.
Minaj stated this at her recent concert in Vienna, Austria, after seeing fans’ reaction to her performance of her pop song, ‘Starships.’
“Vienna, Austria, you guys were so amazing. When ‘Starships’ started playing, that’s when I knew the kind of crowd they were,” she said per Pop Crave.
“Because you should’ve seen, they were doing circles in the crowd and just having their own moment. It made me feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, maybe I should make a couple more pop songs.’”
Nick Minaj is regarded as arguably the greatest female hip-hop star of all-time.
In recent years, top rappers such as Drake, J.Cole, and Kendrick Lamar have incorporated pop into their sounds.
On Sunday, Nicki Minaj cancelled a show in Romania hours before she was due to perform citing “safety concerns”, barely a day after her concert in Dublin was cut short due to rain.
Minaj rescheduled a gig in Manchester and cancelled a second show in Amsterdam in May following an arrest over possession of drugs.
The rapper, 41, was set to headline the Saga Festival in Bucharest on Sunday, but announced on X that she had been advised by her security to not go to the concert “due to safety concerns regarding protests in the area”.
