{"id":53320,"date":"2023-04-02T19:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/02\/i-lost-millions-trying-to-feature-nicki-minaj-iyanya\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:43:40","slug":"i-lost-millions-trying-to-feature-nicki-minaj-iyanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/02\/i-lost-millions-trying-to-feature-nicki-minaj-iyanya\/","title":{"rendered":"I Lost Millions Trying To Feature Nicki Minaj \u2013 Iyanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Iyanya, Nicki Minaj<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singer, Iyanya, has recounted how he and his team lost millions of naira in a failed bid to feature famous American-Trinidadian, Nicki Minaj, on a song.<br \/>The former project Fame West Africa winner according to the Dailypost said after the success of his breakthrough song, \u2018Kukere\u2019, he and his team were under pressure to produce the next big single.<br \/>Iyanya explained that they already recorded \u2018Flavour\u2019 but felt it wasn\u2019t the next single after \u2018Kukere\u2019.<br \/>He said his producer, D\u2019Tunez altered the beat for Kukere and then used it to make \u2018Your Waist\u2019, which got a ton of airplay.<br \/>According to him, his team wasn\u2019t satisfied with the traction of the song, so his record label boss, Ubi Franklin, suggested a remix with Nicki Minaj to boost the success of the song.<br \/>He said they flew to Atlanta, United States, to meet Nicki Minaj for the feature, but they were told that it would cost $200,000 to sign her to a song, which they couldn\u2019t afford at that time.<br \/>Iyanya said, \u201cUr waist was so massive we decided it should go international and we needed the right artiste to help with that journey. @ubifranklin1 suggested Nicki Minaj and I asked how we\u2019re gonna pay for that, he laughed and said \u2018if your dreams don\u2019t scare you, they aren\u2019t big enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iyanya, Nicki Minaj \u00a0 Nigerian singer, Iyanya, has recounted how he and his team lost millions of naira in a failed bid to feature famous American-Trinidadian, Nicki Minaj, on a song.The former project Fame West Africa winner according to the Dailypost said after the success of his breakthrough song, \u2018Kukere\u2019, he and his team were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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