{"id":63425,"date":"2025-03-27T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63425"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:42:08","slug":"davido-reveals-surprising-truth-about-working-with-nicki-minaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/27\/davido-reveals-surprising-truth-about-working-with-nicki-minaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido Reveals Surprising Truth About Working with Nicki Minaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido has made a shocking revelation about his collaboration with American rapper Nicki Minaj, stating that despite working on two songs together, they have never met in person.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Bootleg Kev podcast, Davido described their partnership as a product of the digital era, revealing that all their communication has happened through phone calls and social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know the crazy thing? I have never met her. It is crazy. We speak on the phone all the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Their first collaboration began when Minaj followed him on social media. Surprised, Davido sent her a message, and by the next morning, she had responded.<\/p>\n<p>Their conversation quickly led to a song, with Minaj enthusiastically jumping on the track.<\/p>\n<p>Although they planned to shoot a music video together in Los Angeles, Minaj\u2019s pregnancy at the time prevented their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>However, their relationship continued, and she later reached out for another collaboration on her anniversary album, Pink 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is always supportive. She is amazing,\u201d Davido said, praising Minaj for her dedication and openness to working with artists across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Their 2020 hit Holy Ground remains a standout example of international collaborations, proving that music knows no boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido has made a shocking revelation about his collaboration with American rapper Nicki Minaj, stating that despite working on two songs together, they have never met in person. Speaking on the Bootleg Kev podcast, Davido described their partnership as a product of the digital era, revealing that all their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63427,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425\/revisions\/63427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}