Ricci Bitti, the former contestant of Jermaine Dupri's 'The Rap Game', says she felt pressured by the adults on the show to change her influence from Minaj to Queen Latifah.
- Oct 26, 2019
AceShowbiz - Ricci Bitti, the young rapper who took the heat from Nicki Minaj and her loyal devotees for switching her female hip hop influence from the "Anaconda" rhymer to Queen Latifah, has broken her silence. The aspiring teen artist said she was young and felt pressured to change her answer.
In the fourth season of Jermaine Dupri's Lifetime reality show "The Rap Game", Bitti originally named Minaj as her idol but later claimed that she was inspired by Latifah when a female reporter suggested that the "Super Bass" hitmaker was a bad choice for the contestants to look up to.
"If you want to be in this industry, unfortunately, you don't have that many examples you can look up to. Because I wouldn't say Nicki would be your example," so the journalist said. "Or you tell me if she's your example because I got a question after that if you tell me that's who you're looking up to."
Minaj apparently just saw the old clip, which originally aired around two years ago, and she lashed out on social media. She called out the reporter, claiming that she was "so sad" by "the hate & bitterness on this BLACK woman's face." She also said that Bitti wouldn't last long in the game if she was "weak-minded."
Soon after the backlash, Bitti commented on social media, "People aren't understanding that I was 13 years old when the show was filmed, and I'm 16 now … of course as a 13 y/o KID I felt the need to change my answer, considering there were adults pressuring me into thinking my original answer was wrong."
Minaj quickly offered an olive branch to Bitti, liking the latter's comment on Instagram. "She's sweet & she's the victim here," the newlywed star responded. She added that the teenager "did nothing wrong." The one at fault, according to the "Starships" spitter, was "the grown bitter woman" who was "simply sick."
