Safaree has revealed how a steamy on-screen interplay between his ex-lover Nicki Minaj and Nas left him feeling blue.
In 2012, Nicki dropped the video for “Proper By My Aspect,” her collaboration Chris Brown from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. The clip starred Nas as Minaj’s love curiosity, with the Queens natives famously locking lips.
Wanting again on the video over a decade later, Samuels has now confessed that he had a difficulty with the intimate interplay.
“You wanna know what’s so loopy? I didn’t comprehend it occurred till the video got here out,” he revealed throughout an look on the Preserve It A Stack Podcast. “N-gga, I used to be damage. When that shit occurred, I used to be damage.
“I used to be there the entire day so I used to be like, ‘Rattling. Did that occur once I left to go? I have to’ve left for like an hour, two hours and I feel that’s when that scene occurred, yo.”
In 2017, the rumor mill ran rampant with claims that Nicki Minaj and Nas have been an merchandise after they have been seen cozying up collectively at his Candy Chick restaurant in New York Metropolis.
Previous to that, a video surfaced of Nas kissing and licking Nicki’s face at his forty fourth celebration.
Later, throughout an interview with daytime speak present host Ellen DeGeneres, the “FTCU” rhymer admitted that whereas she and Nas had sleepovers, they hadn’t accomplished the “nasty.”
The couple reportedly broke up in early 2018 after lower than a yr of courting, with distance cited as the rationale.
In the meantime, Safaree and Nicki Minaj dated from 2000 till their tumultuous cut up in 2014. All through their practically 15-year relationship, the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star allegedly contributed to a number of of the Younger Cash hitmaker’s albums together with Pink Friday, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and The Pinkprint.
In 2015, Safaree even thought of suing Nicki for royalties he believed he was owed for his work on these initiatives.
Regardless of their bitter separation, Safaree — who beforehand blamed Nicki Minaj’s ex Meek Mill for his or her cut up — has repeatedly praised the Queen rapper as considered one of his finest companions.
Following a January 2015 interview with The Breakfast Membership, the Brooklyn native dispelled rumors of ghostwriting for Nicki throughout their relationship and expressed gratitude for assembly her.
“I wanna say 1 factor cuz ppl prefer to take bs and run with it..,” he wrote on Twitter (now X) on the time. “If there was something in my interview that got here off the mistaken manner in the direction of nicki i apologize and need ppl to kno that she was the most effective factor that ever occurred to me and is a superb particular person in and out and essentially the most proficient particular person i kno.. and that i by no means stated i wrote her raps.”
Each Safaree and Nicki Minaj have since moved. In 2019, Samuels married his Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta co-star Erica Mena, however Mena filed for divorce two years later whereas pregnant with their second youngster.
Nicki married Kenneth “Zoo” Petty in October 2019 and gave start to their son Papa Bear the next yr.