After a bumpy rollout including several delays, Nicki Minaj’s Queen finally arrived just over a week ago. Since then, things haven’t been all that much better. Queen turned out to be underwhelming, with our own Tom Breihan writing: “The summer of 2018 has given us way too many albums from rap A-listers who are increasingly and depressingly getting further away from what everyone loved about them in the first place. With Queen, Nicki Minaj joins that sad parade.” A whole lot of Minaj fans didn’t care about lukewarm reviews, catapulting Queen to #2 on the Billboard 200 charts. However, it still wasn’t enough to get Minaj her coveted #1 debut.

Nicki clearly wanted Queen to arrive at the top of the charts very, very badly. And for good reason: If Queen had done so, it would’ve made Nicki Minaj the first-ever female rap artist with three #1 albums. As the week went on, there was certainly some maneuvering to help make that a reality. On Wednesday, they added “Fefe” — her recent hit single with the controversial SoundCloud rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine — to the Queen tracklist in an act of gaming the system specific to the streaming era. (Artists can pass these off as creative decisions, but it’s pretty transparent, especially when you consider “Fefe” was originally billed as a 6ix9ine song with a Nicki feature.) This was in addition to various merchandise bundles through Minaj’s official online shop, including one that entailed a 48-hour discount to purchase Queen for only $5.

Ahead of Queen’s release, the projections were that it would be neck and beck with Travis Scott’s Astroworld. And while Minaj’s camp pulled out the stops to try and beat Astroworld, it didn’t pan out. Astroworld, the album that finally dethroned Scorpion from #1, celebrated a second week in the top slot.

This did not sit well with Minaj, who unleashed a string of tweets that alternated between thanking her fans for their support and criticizing the methods through which Scott has promoted Astroworld. (Her grievances include the prospect that Kylie Jenner hyping up Astroworld tour bundles would’ve helped Scott’s cause.) “I spoke to him. He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week,” Minaj said.

Scott wasn’t the only entity Minaj blamed for Queen failing to hit #1. She also took issue with Spotify, angered that they put Drake’s face on every playlist and, as she claims, cancelled planned promotion for Queen after she played some music early. Read her full comments below.

Travis sold over 50K of these. With no requirement of redeeming the album! With no dates for a tour, etc. I spoke to him. He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week. I love my fans for the #1 album in AMERICA! I’ll explain on #QueenRadio 4 albums in, #1 in 86 countries ♥️ pic.twitter.com/CiYEuczgm3

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

My first album sold 400K. No one is doing that with debut albums now. So I’m so grateful. I lost out on 12 hours of sales and did 200K in one week after I was supposedly cancelled. I bit my tongue last #QueenRadio but I won’t On Tuesday. I love you guys so much

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

I looked at the numbers the Carters, Kanye, Nas, etc recently did. Travis sold 200K in his first week of clothes alone. I spoke to him last night & he said he’s been selling clothes b4 the music. Billboard says they’ll change the rules cuz of this, so it should be changed now!

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

I put my blood sweat & tears in writing a dope album only for Travis Scott to have Kylie Jenner post a tour pass telling ppl to come see her & Stormi. lol. Im actually laughing. #Queen broke the record of being number 1 in 86 countries. Thank Jesus & thank you to my fans.

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

Spotify put drake’s face on every playlist but told me they’d have to teach me a lesson for playing my music 10 mins early on #QueenRadio. Even tho they’ve been giving away my music for free for years & I am one of the top Spotify artists of all time.

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

Spotify had to teach me a lesson but rewarded the man who has had an Apple radio show the longest; inadvertently helping the Apple platform the most. Oh I can’t wait for #QueenRadio on Tuesday. They took away my promotion they had promised for the 1st cpl days b/c of this. #Queen

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

My music went up on Apple so I played it. I assumed it was on Spotify & Tidal at the same time. Spotify said that Apple tweeted fans advising #Queen was up & therefore they had to teach me a lesson. But PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!!!!

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018

Travis Scott, meanwhile, was having such a good week that he was just out here handing people money.