These Three Girls Freestyle-d Nicki Minaj's "B.A.B" And It landed Them a Record Deal With Capitol Music!

Kandii, K Duceyyy and Alizé, the trio known collectively as Pretty and Taking All Fades, (P.T.A.F. for simplicity) freestyle-d Nicki Minaj's "Bad Ass B*tches" and the Internet largely scoffed at Nicki Minaj's take on P.T.A.F.'s, but it has ultimately worked wonders for the three-woman rap group.

A&R for Capitol Music Group took the initiative and harnessed what talent the Compton girls possibly possessed and signed them to a record deal to distribute their hit single.

After Nicki's remix, P.T.A.F. also attracted the attention of Eesean “E” Bolden, an A&R for Capitol Music Group. With Bolden's help, P.T.A.F. signed a single deal with Capitol in January. The label—which, like Nicki's labels Cash Money/Young Money and Republic, is owned by Universal—had Nicki's remix taken down from SoundCloud and connected P.T.A.F. with Nicki's management team.

Capitol hopes to officially release a version co-starring Nicki, under P.T.A.F.'s name. “My girls will not be featuring on her song, she will be featuring on ours,” says DeVoe. So far, that hasn't happened. Earlier this week, Capitol rereleased the original single yet again on iTunes, without Nicki. It's uncertain whether the label's relationship with P.T.A.F. will develop into an album release, but they've set up with an engineer and introduced them to producers.

Perhaps the most puzzling finding in the story is that the Pretty girls openly admitted to being non-fans of Nicki Minaj. Kandi said, "I thought she (Nicki Minaj) could have tried harder to contact us."