Nicki Minaj’s Ex Safaree Samuels Says He Left After Being Treated Like Her ’employee

Safaree Lloyd Samuels, left and Nicki Minaj are seen in 2013 at an event by New York radio station Power 105.1 — where Samuels spoke Tuesday about the pair’s breakup.
Safaree Lloyd Samuels, left and Nicki Minaj are seen in 2013 at an event by New York radio sta­tion Power 105.1 — where Samuels spoke Tuesday about the pair’s breakup.

Safaree Samuels put in work dur­ing his 11-year rela­tion­ship with Nicki Minaj, but he refus­es to be her “employ­ee.” Just before Christmas, the 32-year-old rap­per took cen­ter stage on Twitter to rant about his ex-love. On Tuesday, he had the chance to tell his side of the sto­ry. “I walked away,” he told New York City’s Power 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Club.” “I’m not going to say I broke up, but I’m the one who walked away,” he added. “I packed up my stuff and I left.” Minaj dished on their break up when she last inter­viewed with Power 105’s Angie Martinez. “This is some­body I grew up with,” the Queens-born rap­per said about Samuels. “I don’t even know how I’m going to func­tion with­out that per­son in my life. I nev­er lived my life as a famous per­son with­out him.”

When the “Bang Bang” rap­per did acquire fame, things start­ed to change in their rela­tion­ship. “Anything you don’t appre­ci­ate will be tak­en. God sees your ungrate­ful evil soul,”

Safaree Samuels, left, and Nicki Minaj attend the Herve Leger By Max Azria fashion show in September 2013.
Safaree Samuels, left, and Nicki Minaj attend the Herve Leger By Max Azria fash­ion show in September 2013.

She tweet­ed in late December. “Wanted fame. I gave u my bless­ing. I still love. I still love. I’ll always love. So dis­ap­point­ed,” she con­tin­ued, pulling lines from her hit “Pills N Potions” off her lat­est album “The Pinkprint,” which is said to have sev­er­al songs inspired by Minaj’s heart­break. While Samuels — whose rap name is Scaff Beezy — imme­di­ate­ly shot back on Twitter telling his ex-lady to “stop look­ing for pit­ty (sic),” he was reluc­tant to go fur­ther on the social media site. It was­n’t until Tuesday when he real­ly laid it all out. “I just got to the point where the respect was­n’t there,” he said. “Everyone around her works for her, you know?” he explained.

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So it got to the point where it was like, I’m your man. I’m who you go to sleep with every night. I’m who you wake up with every morn­ing. And it got to the point where I was being treat­ed like an employ­ee, instead of like her man.“Nydailynews.com