Nicki Minaj has been labeled troublesome prior to now by the media, however she dipped into an previous album minimize this week to reiterate that’s not the case.
Taking to X on Wednesday (September 18), Minaj used a couple of bars from 2014’s “All Issues Go” off The Pinkprint to make her level.
“Lemme make this clear- I’m not troublesome I’m simply bout my enterprise,” she wrote. “I’m not into faux business events & faux agendas. Rock with ppl for a way they make me really feel, not what they offer me.”
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Lemme make this clear-
I’m not troublesome I’m simply bout my enterprise.I’m not into faux business events & faux agendas
Rock with ppl for a way they make me really feel, not what they offer me. pic.twitter.com/GKzspP02Wj
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 19, 2024
Earlier that day, Nicki Minaj revealed that she’s nonetheless not a U.S. citizen – regardless of having paid hundreds of thousands in taxes over time.
The Younger Cash rapper spoke about her nationality throughout a dialog with a fan on TikTok LIVE, and gave the impression to be irked by the truth that the U.S. authorities has but to make her an honorary citizen contemplating her big monetary contributions to the nation.
“I’m not a citizen of America. Isn’t that loopy?” she mentioned, earlier than clarifying that she continues to be a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago the place she was born.
“I used to be born on a phenomenal island referred to as Trinidad and Tobago. However I’ve been within the States for a few years. You’ll suppose that with the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} that I’ve paid in taxes to this nation that I might have been given an honorary citizenship many, many, many 1000’s of years in the past.”
Minaj beforehand opened up about her immigrant background and journey to the U.S. in a robust message about immigrant rights in 2018.
Responding to migrant youngsters being separated from their mother and father on the U.S.-Mexican border underneath the Donald Trump administration, she wrote on Instagram: “I got here to this nation as an unlawful immigrant at 5 years previous. I can’t think about the horror of being in a wierd place and having my mother and father stripped away from me on the age of 5.
“That is so scary to me. Please cease this. Are you able to attempt to think about the phobia & panic these youngsters really feel proper now? Not figuring out if their mother and father are useless or alive, in the event that they’ll ever see them once more… ”
The “Tremendous Freaky Woman” star has lengthy been happy with her Trinidadian roots and repped her native nation final yr when she appeared on fellow Trinidadians Machel Montano and Destra’s “Shake The Place (Remix).”
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