10 Things We Learned From Safaree Samuels's Chat With The Breakfast Club
Nicki Minaj's ex chops it up on love, music and breakups.
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The Pinkprint Revealed - Nicki Minaj's ex Safaree Samuels paid a visit to The Breakfast Club to defend his name. He revealed that Nicki Minaj is still his soulmate and that the doors are never completely closed. He also spoke a few truths regarding their 14-year relationship and the key roles he played in the background all of these years. Read on.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)(Photo: 105.1 Breakfast Club via YouTube)
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Step Into the Limelight - Safaree said he wasn’t one for doing interviews but felt he had to step up once Nicki started co-signing shade thrown his way."I could be out here telling a million stories and doing cornball stuff like that," he said, "but I’d never do that and never planned on doing that so I think it’s crazy for her to come out now and try to pull me down... Don’t say I don’t have no talent because every time when it came to writing raps and doing music, it was me, her and the beat. She doesn’t do it by herself.”(Photo: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Clear Channel)
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Big Daddy - The rumor mill has been circulating that Meek Mill and Nicki are becoming an item and what makes it worse is that Safaree introduced the two. Not confirming the stories as true, he wished them luck.“Anybody that deals with her, that’s a come up for them," he said. "... If that’s who she decides to move on with, it is what it is. I’m not mad or bitter because if I wanted to make it work, I could have made it work… He don’t owe me nothing. He’s not a childhood friend I grew up with.”(Photos from left: Christopher Polk/AMA2014/Getty Images for DCP, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for VH1, Rick Diamond/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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Roman's Revenge - Safaree made it clear that he was his own man, not dependent on Nicki's fame and money. Tired of feeling taken for granted, he said, “I walked away. I’m not gonna say I broke up, but I walked away. I’m the one who packed my stuff and I left. It just got to the point where the respect was gone... I’m who you’re going to sleep with every night and wake up with every morning and it got to the point where I was being treated more like an employee instead of her man.” (Photo: Christopher Peterson/Splash News)
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Suicidal Thoughts - Safaree wasn't afraid to admit that suicidal thoughts entered his mind after his relationship with Nicki went sour. He explained, “I definitely have been in places where I felt like I don’t want to be here anymore. I think everybody has felt like that before and [breakups] it’s not an easy thing to deal with… But now I’m happy... Befor, it was hard for me to be in the car and she would come on the radio or see a meme on Instagram. That used to bother me, but now it’s like tunnel vision and doesn’t bother me anymore.” (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014)
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Bed Rock - Drake and Nicki Minaj have maintained a flirtatious relationship throughout their careers as he's lusted after his YMCMB cohort on several tracks and even received a lap dance from the "Anaconda" hitmaker.Despite those encounters, Safaree said, “As much as people want to think that I have such a problem with Drake, I don’t really know Drake that well, but I like Drake. Drake is a respectable dude. He didn’t know at first and then after a while he knew we was together and he was respectful. So I don’t have no problem with him either.”(Photos from left: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Clear Channel, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, Roshan Perera/Splash News)
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'Bed of Lies' - When Nicki dropped the emotional rollercoaster "Bed of Lies" last year, many people thought the lyrics were about SB and that she was taking shots. Safaree, however, wasn't bothered. "I was there when the song was written," he explained. "I was there for the writing process for that song, so it wasn’t a surprise to me."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for VH1)
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Massive Attack - Safaree also admitted that he felt there were things done for image’s sake that didn’t need to be done, but he still didn’t bark about Nicki kissing Nas and Weezy or Wayne saying your man “ain’t hitting it right” on her Pinkprint single “Only.”"As far as the 'Only' song, people from the outside took it more of disrespect than I did… If it wasn’t for Wayne, none of us would be here right now. It’s a song, Wayne can say whatever he wants. He says a lot of crazy stuff in his songs, it is what it is.”(Photos from left: Mark Davis/Getty Images for BET, Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Clear Channel, Rachel Murray/Getty Images for MTV)
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The Crying Game - SB revealed that his mother was a victim of domestic violence by the hands of his father growing up and put to rest word about the rumored fight some years back between him and Nicki, stating, "Hell naw. I would never hit her."He didn't say whether or not he was on the receiving end of a few blows as he remained mum about allegations that Nicki knocked out his car windows, although he made sure to clarify that all of his cars were in his name. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Your Love - Unbeknownst to the public, SB and Nicki split about four months ago. When asked if he still had feelings, he stated, “Of course I do. I’m not up here saying I don’t love her and that I hate her. That’s my soulmate but we just can’t be together.”He added that the industry played a role in their relationship's demise. “When you’re that big of a brand, it’s like you’re a walking, breathing corporation, so you always have to be on. It was to the point to where when we go out, I can’t even hold your hand or put my arm around you and I’m an affectionate dude. I don’t want to walk behind you or acting like you not my girl, and after a while that puts a strain on somebody.” (Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Clear Channel)
