Famous singer, Onoyom Mbuka widely known as Iyanya has revealed how he lost millions of naira trying to feature American rapper, Nicki Minaj, on one of his songs.
According to him, his need to produce the next big single following the success of the song that catapulted him to fame, ‘Kukere’, was the beginning of it all as he revealed that himself and his crew wanted to do more.
Iyanya explained that they already recorded ‘Flavour’ but felt it wasn’t the next single after ‘Kukere’.
He said his producer, D’Tunez altered the beat for Kukere and then used it to make ‘Your Waist’, which got a ton of airplay.
According to him, his team wasn’t 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.
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’t afford at that time.
Iyanya said, “Ur 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’re gonna pay for that, he laughed and said ‘if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.”