Outside of working with Doja, Minaj collaborated with a bunch of artists this year including A$AP Ferg, Ty Dolla $ign, and NBA Youngboy. The Queens rapper, who reigns as Spotify s most streamed female rapper for 2020, celebrated the 10-year anniversary of her
Pink Friday debut last month, and called out the GRAMMYs after the recent nominations were announced.
Never one to hold her tongue, Minaj pointed to alleged favoritism within the voting pool and recounted personally being snubbed for Best New Artist in 2012. Despite GRAMMY controversy, and hip-hop’s famously
bumpy relationship with the Recording Academy, a few female rappers nabbed nominations this year.
• Dec 10, 2020 In 2020, there were many ways to understand the year in music; this week, we re considering four. It s been a long journey for women to get their critical and commercial dues in hip-hop, but the past year came replete with glimpses of progress. First, the facts: For a brief period in May, four Black women Nicki Minaj alongside Doja Cat on Say So and Beyoncé alongside Megan Thee Stallion on Savage occupied the top two spots on the Billboard
Hot 100. That two-week span marked historic moments for Nicki, Doja and Megan, all of whom scored their first No.