Nicki Minaj To Host 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards, Former Manager Claims He Owns Her Trademark

Nicki Minaj has a way of responding to negativity — she just adds more accomplishments to her résumé.
The same day her former manager Fendi visited The Breakfast Club Morning Show and blasted her for ditching him for Waka Flocka’s mother Deb Atney back in the day, Nicki brushed it off by announcing some major news.

She’ll be hosting this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards as the international show celebrates its 20th anniversary!
The self-proclaimed Queen of Rap wrote on Instagram:

So excited to announce that I will not only perform, but I have the honorable task of HOSTING this year’s MTV European Music Awards!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! The show will shoot in GLASGOW, SCOTLAND for its 20th Anniversary ON NOVEMBER 9th!!!! Find us @mtvema and Vote at mtvema.com

On top of hosting and performing duties, she’s also nominated for four prizes, including “Best Female” and “Best Look.” And to add to her big news, the Jessie J song “Bang Bang” that she’s featured on with Ariana Grande is currently #1 in the UK.
Meanwhile…
In case you missed it, yesterday, Nicki’s former manager Fendi visited The Breakfast Club with Lil Kim, and seemed pretty pissed while talking about how he helped create Nicki Minaj’s name and image before she jumped ship:

Nicki started with me in 06-07. I met her on MySpace. I changed her name to Nicki Minaj. We started off like that. She’s actually still signed to my production company which is Dirty Money. I got the Young Money deal in like 70 days. When I got the contract Nicki started ducking me. Wayne gave me one of those Cash Money deals from the 80s–no royalties on it, no advance. I told Nicki I wasn’t going to let her do that to herself. She started crying. Nicki might have a better contract now, through all her grouping she found her way. I made Wayne host a mixtape called ‘Sucka Free’. We got the mixtape done. The President of Young Money then calls me and asked me why is Nicki out here on the ‘I Am Music’ tour without you. So I flew out, to a date they had in Chicago. I saw Nicki and was like, ‘What’s up?’ and she walked right past me. She was like ‘Oh, Deb [Atney] said..’ So I’m like this is a good deal…I had a plan to put it together. So Debbie called me up two weeks later like, ‘I like your artist. We need to set up a meeting.’ I had a birthday party in North Carolina, Debbie called me up and was like we can’t make the party on Sunday, can we fly Nicki to Atlanta? Nicki went out there and Debbie brainwashed her. Next thing you know, I get another phone call and she signed to Young Money.

When asked if he received any money from the deal, he responded:

Nah, I didn’t get no finder’s fee. I didn’t get nothing. Nicki tried to offer me a finder’s fee of $15,000, I laughed at it. [Safaree] hit me up telling me Nicki wanted to send him some money. I was excited. When she called me up I thought we was about to get right. I was scared to ask how much it was for. So I’m like OK cool. They asking for W-9s. I got a phone call from her accountant a month later and she said Nicki wanted to wire you some money. She was like $15,000. My feelings was hurt. I was like, ‘y’all can’t be serious.’ How do you create an image, put it together, bring it to life? I put her with Young Money, I did everything and she offers me $15K? The money actually came. But she’s been ducking me ever since.

He did seem to walk away with something out of the deal–he snagged her domain name before she had the chance to, and he claimed in the interview that he owns her trademark:

Actually I own the trademark for Nicki Minaj. I own NickiMinaj.com, so in a minute you’re going to see a lot of things coming off those shelves. I can do whatever I want to do with it. How you a mega star and you don’t own your own domain name?

Sidenote: For clarity (and after a little research). Little Miss Mogul, LLC owns the trademark to “Nicki Minaj,” that is registered with the US Trademark office. Since Little Miss Mogul LLC also owns the trademarks to Nicki Minaj’s perfumes, My Pink Friday, and the name “Onika Nicki Minaj,” it can be assumed that that is Nicki’s company and she owns the trademark to her name.
You can watch the interview over at Power 105.1 FM