Next month marks seven years since Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was released. While the entire album received almost universal acclaim, the posse cut "Monster" was hailed as a hip-hop masterpiece.
On Tuesday, Nicki Minaj took to Instagram and reflected on the song while revealing that she had to convince Kanye West to keep it on the album.
"7 year anniversary of #MONSTER Kanye called me to tell me Jay put a verse on this song & that he was still deciding if he would put it on his album," began Minaj. "Haha. It was like an hour long call where I tried to convince him to let the song stay on his album. He felt this verse would end up being the talk of the album. I said: YOU’RE KANYE WEST!!!!
"Kanye, thank you for being the genius you are. You always put others first. I fought u every step of the way but it worked out," she continued. "(He wanted me to add more of that growling monster voice and I felt it was over kill.) He wouldn’t give in. In the end, maybe he was right. Ha!"
Read Nicki Minaj's full post about the song up top.
Source: Instagram
