MIA has upcoming music with Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat on her upcoming album WOMENbut it seems that there are obstacles with the album being released and now she is threatening to release the songs.
MIA says she may reveal the songs if her album is not released on the originally scheduled release date.
The latest project is long awaited as MIA’s last album intend was released in 2016, and she has been quiet on the music scene. On Tuesday, the artist showed that she has had collaborations with Minaj and Doja for years and wants them to stop by the end of September.
“Soon I promise,” she began. “I had to wait two years for a Doja Cat verse… Then a Nicki… Then a… Nevermind. If MATA is not out [in] I will release it myself in September.”
The Sri Lankan artist is releasing her upcoming album as the first under her Island Records deal. She was previously signed to Interscope Records/XL Recordings, but their relationship quickly soured.
Meanwhile, WOMEN there is no official release date, although two singles from the album – “One” and “Popular” – have been released.
This is not the first time that the Ministry of Interior threatens to release an album. In 2013, at the height of her drama with Interscope, she threatened to leak her album tanks after the label allegedly held back her album because it was “too positive”.
The album took eight months to release. MIA rose to fame with her song “Paper Planes”.
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Meanwhile, news of more releases from Nicki Minaj was met with excitement by Barbs, Minaj’s fan base, although more details were not released. Minaj recently received the MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and also just dropped her new remix “Likkle Miss (Remix)” featuring Skeng Don from Jamaica and also her No. 1 Billboard’s “Super Freaky Girl,” which samples Rick James’ “Freak.”
As for Doja Cat, she’s busy making headlines with her lack of eyebrows and her music from her latest album. Her planetwhich remains one of the longest-running albums on the Billboard 200.
She recently released the video for her song “Vegas,” which is also the Elvis Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
