The Plus Side of the Ridiculous Summer Jam Beef

Last night Nicki Minaj was set to perform at Hot 97′s Summer Jam, but after Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg publicly expressed his dislike for her single ‘Starship’ at the event, Weezy decide to pull the plug on her role in it. As patently ridiculous as the Peter Rosenberg/Funk Flex vs. Nicki Minaj/Lil Wayne ‘beef’ may be, you’d have a hard time seriously arguing the public wasn’t the one who came out on top when Nas and Lauryn Hill stepped in to fill the unexpected void in the night’s proceedings. Or as Jeff Rosenthal eloquently puts it:

Nicki Minaj [...] tweeted in excitement, “History will be made @ Hot 97 Summer Jam tonight. I really hope you’re there to witness it.” That was before Lil Wayne pulled his Young Money star off the bill, before the night was thrown into a shredder, lit on fire, and then reconstructed with spit and tape into something so much better than initially conceived. It was before Nas and Lauryn Hill stepped onstage, unrehearsed, in a twist that was both unimaginable and perfect. History was indeed made last night – and somehow, amazingly, ironically, Minaj was the one who missed it.

Read the full article on how the evening went @ Rolling Stone.

J.Monkey

1982 was when Jaap van der Doelen aka J.Monkey shot his way out his mom dukes. A mere two years later he was already battling Big Brother and The Illuminati. Whenever he has time to spare from those efforts he writes (about music, mostly), hosts a radio show and designs graphics for a living. He lives in The Netherlands where he continues to be winning.

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