{"id":137872,"date":"2025-11-17T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/137872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:34:13","slug":"linda-perry-and-nicki-minaj-almost-recorded-their-own-mash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/137872\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Perry and Nicki Minaj Almost Recorded Their Own Mash-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Perry was as surprised as anyone when she first heard that a mash-up of her band, 4 Non Blondes\u2019 1993 hit \u201cWhat\u2019s Up?,\u201d and Nicki Minaj\u2019s 2012 hit \u201cBeez in the Trap went viral on TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To Perry, at least for her side of this equation, this is nothing new. In the 30-plus years since the song\u2019s release, it\u2019s had moments when it\u2019s spiked back into the cultural consciousness. This is just a newer medium and reaching a much different audience. That said, she\u2019s thrilled about the song\u2019s return just as 4 Non Blondes are playing their first shows in years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is definitely a different type of blow-up, because it\u2019s happening on TikTok,\u201d Perry tells VICE backstage at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City. \u201cI embrace anything that happens with anything that I create, because it\u2019s pretty awesome. It also lets kids who never knew the song give it a whole new life with this mash-up. I love it. I\u2019m having fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she first heard the mash-up, Perry laughed. Not one for creating mash-ups herself, Perry appreciated the interpretation taken and understood why it went viral.<\/p>\n

That said, Perry says that she and Minaj have been in touch about creating a definitive version of the mash-up. \u201cShe (Minaj) was in New York and we were going to try to do our own and I was like \u2018Let\u2019s just end this with her and I,\u2019\u201d Perry says. \u201cLet\u2019s just put a kibosh on this. But, I can\u2019t go to New York and she can\u2019t come to L.A., so it\u2019s probably not going to happen.\u201d And digital file sharing isn\u2019t an option because Perry prefers to collaborate in person.<\/p>\n

Even with that plan thwarted, Perry has a busy 2026 in store. 4 Non Blondes are working on their sophomore studio album, their first since 1992\u2019s\u00a0Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, with Perry saying she wrote all of the songs, and the basic tracking is complete. She also has a solo album and documentary coming down the pike. Not to mention that she\u2019s still producing other artists. A long-in-the-works Paris Jackson album, she says, will be out in 2026, and Perry is currently producing three albums with other artists, which she can\u2019t reveal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be very busy,\u201d she says of what\u2019s to come. \u201cI feel the synergy of everything, and it is going to overlap really nicely. I have a good feeling about next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linda Perry was as surprised as anyone when she first heard that a mash-up of her band, 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[85685,146,85,46,85686,409,22323,45266],"class_list":{"0":"post-137872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-4-non-blondes","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-linda-perry","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-nicki-minaj","15":"tag-noisey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}