<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rapper </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicki-minaj"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nicki Minaj</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> apologized to fans about her last-minute </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music"><span style="font-weight: 400;">concert</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cancellation on Saturday after authorities in Amsterdam arrested her for drug possession. She was heading to Manchester at the time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 41-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">performer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> addressed the incident on </span><a href="https://x.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1794523265978798587"><span style="font-weight: 400;">X</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Thank you to everyone who prayed for me today. May God cover you &amp; all that is connected to you. May you be blessed beyond your imagination,” Minaj began in the post, saying she was at a hotel in Manchester after “sitting in a jail cell for 5-6 hours.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My plane still didn’t take off for another 20 mins once I boarded. The flight was 50 mins. 50 mins,” she added. “That’s why they had to do the big song &amp; dance b/c they knew I’d still find a way to perform even if it came down to my last 90 mins in the building which would have been until 1130pm. The building was willing to go past 11pm. So grateful to them for that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She went on to insinuate that the whole thing was a setup.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So they succeeded at their plan to not let me get on that stage tonight. I succeeded @ getting to the root of it all by recording them &amp; posting everything in real time. I have sooooooooo much video evidence. You wouldn’t believe it if I told you,” Minaj continued. “I’ll have the lawyers &amp; GOD take it from here tho. Please please please accept my deepest &amp; most sincere apologies.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She added, “They sure did know exactly how to hurt me today but this too, shall pass.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Minaj concluded by promising to reschedule the show for a later date and confirmed she would be performing at the second Manchester performance. She went on to play in Birmingham, U.K., on Sunday night. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The rapper recorded an Instagram Live of her arrest on Saturday, during which a Dutch official is heard saying Minaj is being detained for &#8220;carrying drugs.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee shared a </span><a href="https://x.com/Marechaussee/status/1794454957564776879"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on X around the same time, saying, &#8220;We have just released a 41-year-old American woman who we arrested this afternoon at Schiphol on suspicion of exporting soft drugs. After consultation with the Public Prosecution Service, the suspect was fined and can continue her journey.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Later, Minaj shared another video on Instagram depicting an official telling the performer that they did a &#8220;random, quick check&#8221; before her luggage boarded her private plane. </span></p>
<p>Minaj posted about the situation on X, saying, &#8220;Now they said they found weed &amp; that another group of ppl have to come here to weigh the pre-rolls.”</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Keep in mind they took my bags without consent. My security has already advised them those pre-rolls belong to him. Oh yea, &amp; the pilot wants me to take my ig post down,&#8221; she continued. </span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Singer </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicki-minaj" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nicki Minaj’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> neighbors aren’t thrilled about her husband Kevin Petty, who is a convicted </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sex-offender" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sex offender</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, living in their midst.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 40-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rapper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, currently resides in a $19.5 million estate in the upscale Hidden Hills neighborhood in the western part of </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los Angeles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> County. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Minaj’s husband registered his new address with the Megan’s Law website as he was required to do. That&#8217;s when neighbors took notice and started circulating a petition called “SAY NO TO SEX OFFENDERS IN HIDDEN HILLS,” per </span><a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/06/23/nicki-minaj-neighbors-want-her-gone-concerns-husband-kenneth-petty-hidden-hills-petition/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TMZ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The petition by resident Beverly Bardan started soon after Petty moved there in December 2022, but it is gaining steam and earned more than 100 signatures in the third week of June, the outlet noted. As of June 23, it had 912 signatures with a goal of 1,000.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Petty couple moving in would lead to appraisal value of our homes to go DOWN due to safety concerns. It would lead to children and women being a target,” the change.org </span><a href="https://www.change.org/p/say-no-to-sex-offenders-in-hidden-hills" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">petition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> says in part. “DO NOT allow this dangerous sex offender to live near you, SHOW that you are against sex offenders in our Hidden Hills neighborhood!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The backlash stems from an alleged <a href="https://www.okayplayer.com/news/what-to-know-about-the-sexual-assault-case-against-nicki-minajs-husband-kenneth-petty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incident</a> which happened between Petty and Jennifer Hough. Then 16-year-old Hough said Petty, then 15, came up behind her while she was walking to school, then forced her back into his house and raped her at knifepoint. Hough said she went to school and then went home and immediately reported the alleged crime to her adoptive mother. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Petty denied the allegations and said the two were dating at the time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Petty was later convicted of attempted rape in the first degree, assault in the second degree, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon. He was sentenced to 18-to-54 months in prison, serving almost four years before being released in January 1999.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Minaj denounced fan backlash after they questioned her for dating a convicted sex offender. “He was 15, she was 16… in a relationship. But go awf, Internet,” she wrote on social media comments in 2018.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The exclusive gated community of Hidden Hills is becoming popular with celebrities. Other famous residents include Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner, and Will Smith, per TMZ.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The casual observer could be forgiven for assuming that, even as ten thousand illegal immigrants amassed under a Texas bridge and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs stood credibly accused of treason, one of the most significant news stories last month concerned something Nicki Minaj said on Twitter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For revealing that she declined to attend the Met Gala because organizers had implemented a Covid vaccine mandate, the rapper and social media raconteur was the subject of late-night roasts, internet memes, and tabloid puns. And that was all to be expected — a professional hazard of being an internationally famous pop star. Less axiomatic was the focus ostensibly serious journalists and government officials turned her way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suddenly, the most august publications in the U.S. were talking about Nicki. Pundit panels on cable news shows were talking about Nicki. Heads of state across the Western world were talking about Nicki.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was an awful lot of high-minded chatter for a woman whose red-carpet accessories have included a fried-chicken necklace and a pope impersonator.</span></p>
<h4><b>The Media Vs. Minaj</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking at their reactions in detail, it’s hard to reconcile the alarmist tone with what Minaj actually said — both the</span><a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437532566945341441?s=20"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">silly</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (that after getting the vax, her cousin’s friend experienced “cantaloupe cajones,” to quote the New York Post’s</span><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/nicki-minaj-exposes-how-anti-vaxxers-arent-always-who-liberal-media-says/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle Smith</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and the</span><a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437526877808128000?s=20"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">sage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (that she would never inject a pharmaceutical just to gain access to a fancy party.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For this,</span><a href="https://www.vox.com/22673528/nicki-minaj-vaccine-tweets-cousins-friend-met-gala"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Vox</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> devoted more than 1600 words to dissecting three of her tweets.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Minaj’s response] reflects a strain of distrust in public policy, health, and science experts because it presents a cautionary mindset regarding vaccines as a sort of reasonable ‘middle ground’ in the fight between science and anti-vax ideology,” the outlet fretted. A few paragraphs down, it added, “The subtext [of Minaj’s tweets] seems to be a reluctant acceptance that workers can’t always [choose] to go unvaccinated, rather than Minaj enthusiastically supporting vaccination itself.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, while admitting Minaj’s comments were mostly reasonable and couldn’t credibly be characterized as anti-vax, Vox still dinged her for failing to show enough </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">enthusiasm</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> over the vaccine. Huh.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And it was hardly the only outlet hand-wringing over the supposed irresponsibility of a singer who once got in a shoe-throwing brawl at New York Fashion Week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The evening after Minaj’s posts, MSNBC host Joy Reid devoted a sizeable portion of her show to expressing disappointment that Minaj used her “platform” to “encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Again, at no point did Minaj discourage anyone from getting the vaccine. She only opined that no one should make a personal medical decision based on bullying.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For perhaps the first time in her life, the notoriously impulsive star also found herself being criticized for being overly cautious, with CNN’s Brian Stelter calling her stated intention of doing more research, “four little words that are hurting America&#8217;s pandemic response.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;This ‘go at it alone,’ ‘doing your own research.’ It seems so innocent,” he said, “but it can have serious consequences.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Got that? Reading up a little before blindly obeying government edicts is now harmful.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another CNN contributor, Dr. Peggy Drexler,</span><a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/16/opinions/nicki-minaj-covid-drexler/index.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">contrasted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the truculent Minaj with a higher order of celeb, the sort who “embrace responsibility.” Her example of positive influence? That paragon of conscientiousness, Howard Stern — a man whose devotion to the common good runs so deep, earlier this month he</span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-your-freedom-howard-stern-latest-celeb-to-blast-unvaccinated-say-hospitals-shouldnt-treat-them"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">argued</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “f*** your freedom,” on behalf of vaccine mandates and urged hospitals to refuse treatment to the unvaccinated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The list of publications discussing Minaj’s handful of off-hand comments — from</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/17/nicki-minaj-vaccine-tweet-covid-infertility-misinformation/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Washington Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> saying it’s “extra critical” celebrities “talk about the vaccines responsibly” to</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/fashion/met-gala-nicki-minaj-covid-vaccination.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> stressing the obligation of the famous to serve as vaccine ambassadors — seems endless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the media’s overreaction was nothing to that of various governments.</span></p>
<h4><b>Nicki-Gate</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Health Minister of Minaj’s birth country, Trinidad and Tobago, held a</span><a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/trinidad-tobago-health-minister-shuts-down-nicki-minaj-vaccine-claims-3046698"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">press conference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to announce his department tried to track down the unfortunate cousin’s friend, but failed. “We take all these claims seriously,” he said. “Whether it’s on social media or mainstream media. Unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Except, who asked his office to waste that time? Not Minaj, who by that time had moved on to a new fight with the Biden administration. Was the general public outcry over this unnamed person’s testicular affliction really so great it necessitated the expense of an investigation?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Certainly, there was little reason for our erstwhile motherland to insert its nose into the business.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Across the Atlantic, at a separate</span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-58571353"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">coronavirus briefing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Downing Street, England&#8217;s chief medical officer barked that Minaj “should be ashamed” for sharing the swollen scrotal region anecdote. Not to be outdone, the U.K. health secretary also sternly lectured that she and other celebrities, “should be very careful with their language and certainly shouldn&#8217;t be spreading untruths.” (Which assumes, perhaps wrongly, that Minaj knew the story of the engorged gonads to be a lie).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of which brings us home to the one government that might have made some positive, if minor use of Minaj’s off-the-cuff posts but bungled it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, the Biden team’s first instinct was an appropriate and healthy one, grounded in the American ideals of free and open debate — inviting Minaj to publicly ask questions of senior members of Biden’s healthcare team. One could easily imagine how she might have brought up issues that vaccine hesitant young music lovers have been puzzling over.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The next day, however, Nicki Summit broke down, with a White House official</span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nicki-minaj-biden-white-house-phone-call-vaccine"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">telling</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the press it had only proposed a private phone call and Minaj insisting she’d received an in-person offer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The media immediately jumped to the mean-spirited speculation that Biden’s staff didn’t consider the 10-time Grammy nominee significant enough for a face-to-face invite, despite the fact that she has more than enough Instagram followers alone (158 million) to wipe out the nation’s vaccination deficit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given that this is the same administration that produced a vaccine promotion video featuring a cross-dressing TikTok influencer</span><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/10/tiktok-star-parades-around-white-house-to-boost-vaccines/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">flouncing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> around the White House in dragon-lady nails, it’s a bit hard to believe concern for credibility would keep it from welcoming Nicki Minaj. More likely, there were second thoughts that the famously unpredictable artist wouldn’t stick to a script and, unlike pop starlet Olivia Rodrigo, planned on being more than a P.R. prop.</span></p>
<h4><b>Miss Independent</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The real issue revealed in the Nicki Minaj drama is the degree to which the bureaucracy now expects every public figure to serve its aims. Consider the excessive, overwrought alarm bells the press set off because one singer declined to act as a docile cog in the propaganda machine. As Minaj herself said, it carries faint echoes of China where no one with any degree of fame or following can be allowed to express ideas or priorities out of line with the State’s agenda.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Minaj isn’t the first in her rowdy, rebellious genre to experience this. Kanye, Ice Cube, and 50 Cent discovered before her that the same media and political party claiming they want to “prioritize black voices” will silence and mock them the moment they stray off message.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If 43 percent of the black population is still wary of the vaccine, it isn’t because of dangerous narratives coming from Minaj or any other rapper. After all, nearly every major celebrity has made a show of being proudly pro-vax, including black stars like Samuel L. Jackson, Tyler Perry, John Legend, Juvenile, Lupe Fiasco, Chris Rock, and Kerry Washington, to name just a few. It’s because our institutions have proven themselves untrustworthy. It’s because our leaders on the Left have squandered public trust in the pursuit of control.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same politicos assuring us that vaccines are effective demand we cover our faces even after we’ve had the shot. They tell us inoculation will protect us, but then ask us to rage at our neighbors who, for whatever reason, are still biding their time. All of which smacks of an agenda that goes far beyond health. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many, like Minaj, could be persuaded. But Democrats of today (with an assist from middle-road Republicans) don’t want dialogue. They want dominance. They want a citizenry that is perpetually looking to Washington for permission to live our lives and pursue happiness.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Minaj, vulgar and outlandish as she can at times be, represents something that authority can’t abide — a person willing to question it.  </span></p>
<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</i></p>


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<p>On her MSNBC program, &#8220;The Reid Out&#8221; Thursday, host Joy Reid fired back at rap artist Nicki Minaj over her COVID-19 vaccine-related tweet, but this time, she tried to snare Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, accusing Shapiro and other &#8220;right-wing bomb-throwers&#8221; of adopting Minajs as an &#8220;anti-vax&#8221; heroine in order to lure unsuspecting Americans into refusing the vaccine.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nicki-minaj-skips-met-gala-over-vaccine-mandate-gets-into-twitter-fight-with-msnbcs-joy-reid">The Daily Wire reported</a>, Minaj and Reid have tangled off and on since Monday night when Minaj suggested she did not accept an invitation to the Met Gala because it would involve getting the COVID-19 vaccination &#8212; the Met Gala required attendees to provide proof of vaccination &#8212; and, while she has not closed the door on the possibility of getting inoculated against COVID-19, Minaj deemed the event&#8217;s requirement unconvincing.</p>
<p>Minaj then claimed that an acquaintance of her family member suffered a bizarre side effect of the vaccine: enlarged testicles.</p>
<p>Reid said, on her program, that she was &#8220;sad&#8221; Minaj was promoting an anti-vaccination message.</p>
<p>“For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives,” commented Reid, “As a fan, I am so sad that you did that.”</p>
<p>Minaj responded by promoting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-melts-down-after-nicki-minaj-defends-posting-tucker-carlson-clip">a clip from Fox News&#8217;s Tucker Carlson</a>, praising the rap artist for &#8220;enraging the political class&#8221; who &#8220;couldn’t let [Minaj&#8217;s decision] stand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thursday night, Reid tried to suggest that, somehow, Minaj was joining &#8220;right-wing bomb-throwers&#8221; in an effort to de-legitimize the vaccine.</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joy Reid falsely claims <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenShapiro</a> is anti-vaxxer and white nationalist who&#39;s one of many &quot;right-wing bomb throwers&quot; who&#39;ve embraced <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NickiMinaj</a> to &quot;drag as many of her fans into their anti-vax camp as they can. She adds folks like Ben &quot;look down on&quot; Black people and culture. <a href="https://t.co/vtI7kucXfR">pic.twitter.com/vtI7kucXfR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1438653230414811136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After excoriating &#8220;white nationalist-curious&#8221; and &#8220;no friend of non-white people, period&#8221; Tucker Carlson, she laid into &#8220;people like&#8230;the Ben Shapiros,&#8221; who, she claims, don&#8217;t &#8220;want Nicki Minaj to have free speech&#8230;what they want is a vehicle to drag as many of her fans into their anti-vax camp as they can.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They need and crave authentic members of the culture, hip hop culture,&#8221; Reid raved.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s just be clear,&#8221; Reid went on, &#8220;they look down on that culture and hate that culture and would never, ever, ever support someone like Nicki Minaj other than to pull her on to their team.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not clear what &#8220;team&#8221; Reid is referring to, but presumably, she believes Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson are &#8220;anti-vax&#8221; or in the &#8220;anti-vax&#8221; camp.</p>
<p>Shapiro, however, has been a proponent of vaccination &#8212; a fact recognized even by left-leaning outlets.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/fox-news-conservatives-vaccines-sean-hannity/619510/">The Atlantic noted, in July</a>, that Shapiro &#8220;has been a vocal proponent of vaccination all along&#8221; and that Shapiro tweeted, in early summer, urging his followers to “[g]et vaxxed. I did. My wife did. My parents did.”</p>
<p>Just days ago, <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437480034760077313">Shapiro noted on Twitter</a>, responding to Vice President Kamala Harris, that the vaccine &#8220;is EXTREMELY protective against hospitalization and death.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conservatives, of course, are not the only ones responding to Minaj&#8217;s vaccine claims. Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s health minister noted, late Wednesday, that the government had not been informed of anyone with Minaj&#8217;s acquaintance&#8217;s particular side effect. Dr. Anthony Fauci countered Minaj&#8217;s claims in interviews earlier this week, and according to Minaj, the White House has reached out with an offer to assist her in her vaccine research.</p>


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<p>The activist group started by Al Sharpton lashed out at rapper Nicki Minaj on Thursday evening, accusing the hip-hop superstar of spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine on social media and “denigrating” the “superior journalism” of MSNBC host Joy Reid.</p>
<p>“In the wake of a week where information was reduced to memes and false information by a popular female rapper and the GOP, there needs to be a reality check on the information superhighway,” said the National Action Network in a statement that Sharpton <a href="https://twitter.com/thereval/status/1438616059305734152">shared</a> on Twitter Thursday evening. “It’s imperative that credible information resonates and we not validate false narratives spread by uninformed individuals in the name of click bait.”</p>
<p>“Though we respect Nicki Minaj as an artist and a woman of color breaking barriers in entertainment and leading in her field,” NAN said, “we would hope that she would seek dialogue with Joy-Ann rather than denigrate her.”</p>
<p>But it was Reid who began the fracas by denigrating Minaj over her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nicki-minaj-skips-met-gala-over-vaccine-mandate-gets-into-twitter-fight-with-msnbcs-joy-reid">viral tweet</a> on a vaccine side effect rumor she heard about a cousin in Trinidad.</p>
<p>“People like Nikki Minaj — I have to say this — you have a platform, sister, that is 22 million followers,” said Reid during a panel discussion on MSNBC with Charlie Sykes and Dr. Joseph Allen. “For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives — my God, sister — you could do better than that.”</p>
<p>Minaj replied that Reid had decided to “spread a false narrative about a black woman” and cited Reid’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-msnbc-host-doubles-down-on-vaccine-criticism-i-wouldnt-trust-anything-coming-from-psychopath-trump">long and recent history of vaccine skepticism</a>, as well as the host’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-surprising-story-of-how-sean-hannity-saved-an-msnbc-hosts-job">discredited claims</a> that hackers had posted anti-gay comments on her defunct blog before <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437623825181511686">calling</a> her a “lying homophobic [expletive].”</p>
<p>“Black women can have discussions on vaccinations, but to call Joy-Ann Reid names — who has stood for and symbolized [b]lack excellence — is unfair and unwarranted,” NAN chided Minaj. “Joy-Ann has done superior journalism and advocacy with integrity and should be protected and supported.”</p>
<p>Minaj’s tweets have touched off a cultural conversation about the COVID-19 vaccination and the growing advocacy of coercion to assure its acceptance, uniting millions of Americans across the political divide. After top-rated Fox News host Tucker Carlson defended Minaj in a segment on his show, the rapper <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438248319650656256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1438248319650656256%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fleft-melts-down-after-nicki-minaj-defends-posting-tucker-carlson-clip">tweeted</a> a clip of the monologue with a “bullseye” emoji. “Suddenly, her mentions were full of individuals warning Minaj that she was tweeting a ‘white supremacist’ and that she should refuse to trust Republicans,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-melts-down-after-nicki-minaj-defends-posting-tucker-carlson-clip">reported</a> Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti. Carlson went on to defend Minaj on Wednesday evening as well.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438248319650656256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Reid’s show piled on Minaj again on Wednesday night, as Morgan State University professor Jason Johnson dragged the performer for “sitting here, cozying up with Tucker Carlson. This is why she lost to the people’s champ, Cardi B., because nobody who actually cares about their fans, supporters, or COVID would want to align themselves with Tucker Carlson.”</p>
<p>Reid then suggested Carlson go to Trinidad to do “a deep investigative report on the cajones” of Minaj’s acquaintance, whose testicles allegedly swelled after his vaccination, rendering him impotent. The island&#8217;s health minister has said he could find no such case.</p>
<p>“I want him to go down there like he went to Viktor Orban, and I want him talk with that gentleman and find out … just how large these melons were,” Reid said. “It’s an investigative report that we need. Go and do it, Tucker. I know you want to. You really, really want to,” said Reid.</p>
<p>“We critically need Joy-Ann’s continued journalism and her platform to amplify the conscious voice of [b]lack women and push the issues to keep them relevant and vocal in prime time media,” said NAN in its press release.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/thereval/status/1438616059305734152">entrance</a> into the debate of NAN, which Sharpton founded in 1991, represents a strong defense by Sharpton of his MSNBC colleague. Reid is part of MSNBC’s primetime line-up as host of “The ReidOut” weeknights at 7 p.m. Eastern; Sharpton hosts “PoliticsNation” on Saturdays and Sundays.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A STATEMENT FROM NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK (NAN): WOMEN LEADERS SUPPORT JOY-ANN REID (<a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoyAnnReid</a>)</p>
<p>Cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/ebonie__riley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ebonie__riley</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MSSharpton2u?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSSharpton2u</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bouvier01?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bouvier01</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaJeffers3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KatrinaJeffers3</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MadameAshLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MadameAshLee</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NationalAction?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NationalAction</a> <a href="https://t.co/iBnWEU4EnR">pic.twitter.com/iBnWEU4EnR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRevAl/status/1438616059305734152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The group’s statement reads in full:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>STATEMENT FROM NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK (NAN): WOMEN LEADERS SUPPORT JOY-ANN REID</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Black women can have discussions on vaccinations, but to call Joy-Ann Reid names — who has stood for and symbolized [b]lack excellence — is unfair and unwarranted. Joy-Ann has done superior journalism and advocacy with integrity and should be protected and supported.</em></p>
<p><em>Though we respect Nicki Minaj as an artist and a woman of color breaking barriers in entertainment and leading in her field, we would hope that she would seek dialogue with Joy-Ann rather than denigrate her. We need her art and we critically need Joy-Ann’s continued journalism and her platform to amplify the conscious voice of [b]lack women and push the issues to keep them relevant and vocal in prime time media.</em></p>
<p><em>The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting [b]lack and [b]rown communities worldwide and vaccine education is crucial to saving lives. In the wake of a week where information was reduced to memes and false information perpetuated by a popular female rapper and the GOP, there needs to be a reality check on the information superhighway. In fact, according to scientists there is no credible evidence demonstrating that any of the COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. negatively impact male fertility. Furthermore, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, there is no established link between COVID-19 vaccines and lower sperm counts.</em></p>
<p><em>According to research as of late July 2021, [b]lack and Hispanic people remain less likely than their [w]hite counterparts to have received a vaccine, leaving them at increased risk, particularly as the variant spreads. Therefore, it’s imperative that credible information resonates and we not validate false narratives spread by uninformed individuals in the name of click bait.</em></p>
<p><em>Let us be reminded the Tuskegee experiments often cited as a reason for not taking the vaccine is a historically twisted narrative. Those who were experimented on and forced to suffer didn’t get sick because of the vaccine but due to a lack of treatment. We must dispel misinformation to keep moving forward. Wear your masks, wash your hands, and spread factual vaccine information so Americans are properly informed when making the choice to get vaccinated.</em></p>
<p><em>National Action Network has been diligently working in communities across the country to spread vaccine awareness. Visit <a href="http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631919127084000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEYJ-bl_mbAKPhlwc0mo0kx8I0HWA">www.nationalactionnetwork.net</a> for more information[.]</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire</em>.</p>


Al Sharpton’s Group: Nicki Minaj ‘Uninformed,’ Spread ‘False Information’

Al Sharpton

<p>Nicki Minaj is now fully embroiled in controversy over the COVID-19 vaccine and her reported hesitancy on the subject, which has earned her attention from several authorities on the matter, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, earned her a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nicki-minaj-says-shes-locked-out-of-twitter-invited-to-white-house-twitter-and-white-house-respond">reported invitation from the White House</a> &#8212; which the White House says was phone-only &#8212; and, according to Minaj, censorship on Twitter.</p>
<p>The incident began with Minaj complaining about the Met Gala&#8217;s vaccine requirement, suggesting that the event, which required vaccination to attend, was not worth considering a COVID-19 vaccine. She followed up her complaint with an anecdotal, unverified story about an acquaintance with a particularly odd vaccine side effect.</p>
<p>“My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it &amp; became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it &amp; make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied,” she wrote.</p>
<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson weighed in on Minaj&#8217;s vaccine hesitancy, suggesting that the rap artist was drawing attention not because of the anecdote or even her apparent vaccine hesitancy but because she was suggesting that individuals make the decision for themselves, rather than feel bullied by politicians, specifically President Joe Biden.</p>
<p>Tucker noted that Minaj&#8217;s statement, “just pray on it and make sure ur comfortable with ur decision, not bullied,&#8221; was likely the trigger and that media and political leaders felt threatened: “They couldn’t let it stand.”</p>
<p>Minaj agreed and posted a clip of Tucker&#8217;s segment with a &#8220;bullseye&#8221; emoji.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438248319650656256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>That&#8217;s when the leftists truly lost their minds, according to Minaj&#8217;s replies. Suddenly, her mentions were full of individuals warning Minaj that she was tweeting a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; and that she should refuse to trust Republicans.</p>
<p>&#8220;No no no she did not just post a video of tucker Carlson like this holy s*** this is the bad place,&#8221; one user responded.</p>
<p>&#8220;Not F***** Carlson! This is Not the look babes you are making things soooo much worse lmao,&#8221; added another.</p>
<p>Some just pleaded with her to return to making music: &#8220;Nicki plzzz we dont care we not politicians plzzz release some music or do a film.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conservative commentators quickly noticed the meltdown.</p>
<p>&#8220;Someone crossed the streams,&#8221; noted author Kurt Schlicter</p>
<p>&#8220;I did NOT see the Tucker Carlson-Nicki Minaj alliance coming&#8230;&#8221; noted radio host Vince Coglianese.</p>
<p>Others suggested they were &#8220;grabbing the popcorn.&#8221;</p>
<p>Minaj did not need conservative backup, however, or the occasional commenter who suggested that someone could agree with Tucker Carlson&#8217;s message of self-reliance without becoming a vaccine skeptic. She simply fired back.</p>
<p>&#8216;Right. I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. Ppl aren’t human any more. If you’re black &amp; a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur ass, you simply have to. If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there &amp; get hit,&#8221; she snapped.</p>
<p>The White House has reportedly reached out to Minaj to help &#8220;connect&#8221; her with an appropriate resource on vaccine side effects in order to allay her fears. The government of Trinidad &amp; Tobago also noted late Wednesday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/572430-trinidad-health-minister-shoots-down-minaj-claims-about-vaccines">per The Hill</a>, that they have sought information about Minaj&#8217;s acquaintance&#8217;s bizarre side effect and have found no individuals on the island who reported swollen testicles after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the reasons we could not respond yesterday in real-time to miss Minaj is that we had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false,&#8221; the island nation&#8217;s health minister said. &#8220;Unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim.&#8221;</p>
<p>As far as the government knows, he added, &#8220;there have been no such reported either side effect or adverse event.&#8221;</p>


Celebrity Sightings in New York City – February 12, 2020

Left Melts Down After Nicki Minaj Defends Posting Tucker Carlson Clip

Tucker Carlson

<p>Nicki Minaj has posted on social media that Twitter locked her account and that the Biden administration invited her for a personal meeting in the White House after she initiated a viral discussion about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Both outlets have responded to her claims.</p>
<p>The culture-wide conversation began when she posted a story about a friend of her cousin’s allegedly suffering an unusual side effect from the vaccine. Figures as diverse as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Dr. Anthony Fauci have also gotten drawn into the controversy over Minaj’s tweet.</p>
<p>“I’m in Twitter jail y’all. They didn’t like what I was saying over there on that block, I guess,” Minaj posted on her Instagram account. She said she had planned to post a poll asking whether it is okay to ask questions. “Then boom. Can’t tweet.”</p>
<p>That came on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Minaj <a href="//24561851-02DA-4E8C-AC67-66E68526986D/I%E2%80%99m%20in%20Twitter%20jail%20y%E2%80%99all.%20They%20didn%E2%80%99t%20like%20what%20I%20was%20saying%20over%20there%20on%20that%20block,%20I%20guess">tweeted</a>, “The White House has invited me” to a meeting at an unspecified time in the future. “Yes, I’m going. I’ll be dressed in all pink like Legally Blonde so they know I mean business,” she added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The White House has invited me &amp; I think it’s a step in the right direction. Yes, I’m going. I’ll be dressed in all pink like Legally Blonde so they know I mean business. I’ll ask questions on behalf of the ppl who have been made fun of for simply being human. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BallGate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BallGate</a> day 3 <a href="https://t.co/PSa3WcEjH3">https://t.co/PSa3WcEjH3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438249396571807744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Both Twitter and the White House have denied portions of her account.</p>
<p>The White House has confirmed that it actually offered to connect with the “Anaconda” singer by phone.</p>
<p>“As we have with others, we offered a call with Nicki Minaj and one of our doctors to answer questions she has about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine,” an anonymous White House official <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-denies-suspending-nicki-minaj-over-covid-vaccine-tweets-white-house-denies-inviting-her-for-a-visit">told</a> The Daily Beast.</p>
<p>Twitter also stated that the social media platform did not freeze her account. “Twitter did not take any enforcement action on the account referenced,” the company said in a statement.</p>
<p>The online fracas began when Minaj <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nicki-minaj-skips-met-gala-over-vaccine-mandate-gets-into-twitter-fight-with-msnbcs-joy-reid">tweeted</a> that she would not get vaccinated to attend the Met Gala. In the process, she <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437532566945341441">claimed</a> that her cousin’s friend in Trinidad “became impotent” after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination, suffering from severely enlarged testicles.</p>
<p>That assertion also met with an official denial from the Health Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Terrence Deyalsingh. The doctor <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/572430-trinidad-health-minister-shoots-down-minaj-claims-about-vaccines">said</a> that he did not respond to Minaj “in real time” because his ministry had been scouring the island in an attempt to locate the man.</p>
<p>“We had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false,” he said. “At this time, there has been no such reported either side effect or adverse event.”</p>
<p>Minaj’s tweet touched off waves of questions among her more than 22 million followers — and led to a televised dressing down from MSNBC host Joy Reid on Monday night. Reid chided Minaj for allegedly choosing “to use your platform to put people in the position of dying from a disease they don’t have to die from.”</p>
<p>Reid noted that Minaj’s audience was at least 11-times larger than her own audience. (It is, in fact, more than 22-times as large as Reid’s viewing audience on &#8220;The ReidOut.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Minaj <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437572694937989123">fired back</a> on Twitter. “This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets,” Minaj tweeted. “Imagine getting ur dumb a** on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman.” (The original tweet was not censored.)</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. “My God SISTER do better” imagine getting ur dumb ass on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman <a href="https://t.co/4UviONyTHy">https://t.co/4UviONyTHy</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437572694937989123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Reid kept the controversy going on Tuesday night, saying she “spontaneously” decided to address Minaj.</p>
<p>Reid also took the opportunity to triple-down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-msnbc-host-doubles-down-on-vaccine-criticism-i-wouldnt-trust-anything-coming-from-psychopath-trump">her previous vaccine hesitancy</a>. Multiple times during the Trump administration, Reid warned that the president would rush through a potentially harmful vaccine in order to get re-elected. “I wouldn’t go near anything that Trump or his politicized FDA had anything to do with,” she tweeted. On Tuesday, she said she had been right all along:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>When we had a sociopath president in office, who was manipulating the CDC and the FDA, pushing for a quickie vaccine by election day so that he could assure his own re-election, you could count me among the hesitant. Trump nearly broke the once-trusted CDC and the FDA to the point where you couldn’t be sure that you were hearing from scientists and not just the political hacks when either agency spoke. So yeah, people like me were real hesitant. But luckily, there have been doctors and scientists who could reassure those of us who were willing to be reassured that the vaccines, once they came out, months later, were indeed safe.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Minaj <a href="https://twitter.com/onikamajestyy/status/1437800618765307914">retweeted</a> a video clip of radio host Charlamagne Tha God telling Reid, “That’s why you’ve gotta have more grace, ‘cause just some months ago, that’s how [Reid] felt, and there’s still some people who feel like that. So why not use these moments to teach instead of [bashing]?”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">THANK YOU, this was really needed <a href="https://twitter.com/cthagod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cthagod</a> 🙏 <a href="https://t.co/OcxCvnhyCa">https://t.co/OcxCvnhyCa</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Fabio 🇮🇹 (@onikamajestyy) <a href="https://twitter.com/onikamajestyy/status/1437800618765307914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night played a clip from last September of “the crazed race lady” hailing “wise skepticism” about the COVID-19 vaccine.</p>
<p>Candace Owens told Carlson on Wednesday that the backlash proved “Nicki Minaj accidentally stumbled upon the Ministry of Truth … If you say something that they don’t want you to say, they will make a concerted effort to take you down.”</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire</em>.</p>


Nicki Minaj Says She’s Locked Out Of Twitter, Invited To White House; Twitter And White House Respond

MSNBC

Twitter

<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, often under fire for conflicting messages about COVID-19, was adamant, Tuesday, that rap artist Nicki Minaj was spreading &#8220;vaccine misinformation&#8221; when she claimed, in a post to Twitter, that an acquaintance suffered from severe side effects including a form of male impotence.</p>
<p>Minaj did not attend Monday&#8217;s Met Gala, commenting on Twitter that the event required attendees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and she has yet to decide on whether to receive the shot.</p>
<p>&#8220;They want you to get vaccinated for the Met,&#8221; Minaj tweeted. &#8220;if I get vaccinated it won’t [be] for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head &amp; face. Not that loose one.&#8221;</p>
<p>After being challenged by commenters on Twitter, Minaj explained her vaccine hesitancy.</p>
<p>&#8220;My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it &amp; became impotent,&#8221; Minaj wrote. &#8220;His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it &amp; make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-nicki-minaj-vaccine-tweets-rules">According to Fox News</a>, Twitter does not believe Minaj&#8217;s tweets constitute &#8220;vaccine misinformation,&#8221; possibly because Minaj took part in a back-and-forth with MSNBC host Joy Reid over Minaj&#8217;s claims.</p>
<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, &#8220;the nation’s leading infectious disease expert,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nicki-minaj-said-covid-vaccine-could-make-you-impotent-fauci-n1279244">according to NBC News</a>, took umbrage with Minaj&#8217;s claims and disputed Minaj&#8217;s story about testicular enlargement being a result of COVID-19 vaccination in an interview with CNN.</p>
<p>&#8220;There’s no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;So the answer to your question is no.”</p>
<p>Fauci went on to wax poetic about the dangers of &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; though perhaps cognizant of Minaj&#8217;s penchant for getting into social media spats with prominent figures, was loathe to point fingers, calling Minaj&#8217;s tweet &#8220;innocent on her part.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of misinformation, mostly on social media, and the only way we know to counter mis- and dis-information is to provide a lot of correct information,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And to essentially debunk these kinds of claims, which may be innocent on her part. I&#8217;m not blaming her for anything but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on its most updated information page on vaccinations that there is &#8216;currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men,'&#8221; NBC News added.</p>
<p>As The Daily Wire reported Tuesday, MSNBC host Joy Reid was not so diplomatic.</p>
<p>“You have 22 million followers on Twitter. For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, my God, sister, you can do better than that,&#8221; Reid told Minaj.</p>


Now Fauci Fires Back At Nicki Minaj’s ‘Vaccine Misinformation’: ‘No Evidence’ Vaccine Causes Impotence

Anthony Fauci

<p>Rapper Nicki Minaj revealed Monday that she didn’t attend Monday night&#8217;s Met Gala because she didn’t want to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.</p>
<p>When asked why she wouldn’t be attending the event this year, the 38-year-old <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437526877808128000?s=20">tweeted</a>, “They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. If I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head &amp; face. Not that loose one.&#8221;</p>
<p>When fans pointed out the bad press Minaj was drawing for her comments, she <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437528562836258817?s=20">clapped back</a>, “Who cares what blogs gon do? Y’all always worried about blogs. This my real fkn life. They can choke.”</p>
<p>Later the same day, Minaj claimed she had family members whose friends have experienced adverse reactions from the shot, <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437532566945341441?s=20">saying</a>, “My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it &amp; became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it &amp; make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.”</p>
<p>Minaj then entered into something of a Twitter fight with MSNBC host, Joy Reid.</p>
<p>Reid posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1437557324361633796?s=20">clip</a> of herself on her show, “The Reid Out,” saying that she was disappointed in Minaj. &#8220;For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives,” commented Reid, “As a fan, I am so sad that you did that.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Grammy-nominated artist quote-tweeted the clip, replying, “This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. ‘My God SISTER do better’ imagine getting ur dumb ass on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman.”</p>
<p>A short time after Minaj she leveled a racial slur at Reid. “The two white men sittin there nodding their heads cuz this uncle tomiana doing the work chile,” she said, adding, “How sad.”</p>
<p>Some Twitter users thanked Minaj for sharing her feelings publicly.</p>
<p>One woman <a href="https://twitter.com/Tasty_MINAJ/status/1437533586798829584?s=20">lamented</a> that she had to get the vaccine in order to get a job. “I had to get the vaccine cause they wouldn&#8217;t let me look for a job or get a job and to earn some money and know [I’m] unsure about getting the second vaccine.”</p>
<p>Minaj replied that she would likely eventually get it as well for the sake of her career. “I know babe,” she <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437534182117306368?s=20">said</a>. “A lot of countries won’t let [people] work [without] the vaccine. I’d def recommend they get the vaccine. They have to feed their families. I’m sure I’ll b vaccinated as well cuz I have to go on tour, etc.”</p>
<p>Minaj retweeted one fan who <a href="https://twitter.com/ChamorritaMaraj/status/1437547386457362434?s=20">said</a>, “I love how Nicki is having this dialogue utilizing her platform.” The woman added, “She’s showing people it’s safe &amp; ok to have these conversations, to share our questions, experiences, concerns, reassurances, differences, etc. We can all benefit from this discussion. Stay safe y’all.”</p>


Nicki Minaj Skips Met Gala Over Vaccine Mandate, Gets Into Twitter Fight With MSNBC’s Joy Reid

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the second time in a week, Nicki Minaj is trying to break the internet with her fashion choices.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This time, Minaj posed on Instagram wearing a tie-dye yellow tube dress, along with fishnet heels and sunglasses. The post’s caption read, “Btchs act like they want action, heard they want action, btch we aint duckin no action. I’m bout to giv’em dat traction, send a distraction— then ima line’em like FRACTIONS. FRIDAY.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to internal data and Google Trends, global fashion brand </span><a href="https://www.prettylittlething.us/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PrettyLittleThing</span></a> reported that <span style="font-weight: 400;">demands for similar dresses have rocketed upwards, with an increase of 1,011% in just a matter of hours following Minaj’s post.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She is a magnet for attention who knows how to turn every head,” wrote </span>the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9568527/Nicki-Minaj-showcases-backside-legs-curve-clinging-yellow-mini-dress.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Mail</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This surge comes just days after Minaj caused Crocs’ website to crash after sales of the footwear skyrocketed by 4,900% after she shared a nude photograph on social media, posing wearing nothing more than a “hot pink bedazzled pair of Crocs.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Anaconda star had intended the image to be a teaser for an upcoming project, as she shared it on her social media pages alongside the cryptic caption ‘Friday,’” reported </span><a href="https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/nude-nicki-minaj-snapshot-causes-spike-in-crocs-sales"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WENN</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, adding, “But what Nicki perhaps hadn’t predicted was that the picture – which featured her wearing a hot pink bedazzled pair of Crocs and using fluffy cushions to otherwise protect her modesty – would lead to a massive spike in sales for the footwear company.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nicki-minaj-shares-nude-photo-wearing-hot-pink-bedazzled-pair-of-crocs-sales-surge-4900-percent-crocs-website-crashes"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the pink Crocs were so highly sought after that the Crocs website crashed as fans rushed to buy their own pair, while “pink Crocs” and “Nicki Minaj Crocs” trended on Google Search. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, so-called “breaking the internet” is certainly not unusual for the rapper. After Kim Kardashian “broke the internet” in 2014 with her famous “champagne” photo, Nicki Minaj partnered with Paper Magazine to attempt to out-do the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.papermag.com/break-the-internet-nicki-minaj-sexy-full-story-2509721568.html?rebelltitem=22#rebelltitem22"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> article was not exactly subtle, with multiple photographs of Minaj posing half-naked wearing designer clothing, alongside super-imposed versions of herself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three years after Kim Kardashian&#8217;s viral naked cover, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paper</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> magazine has come back with another &#8216;Break The Internet&#8217; issue. And, it sure is racy,” reported <a href="https://mashable.com/2017/11/15/nicki-minaj-paper-break-the-internet/">Mashable</a> in 2017. “In the NSFW cover story—entitled ‘Minaj À Trois’— the rapper appears three-fold in varying degrees of undress.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You&#8217;d be forgiven for assuming, at first glance, that Minaj is in the company of two other women. But, look closely and you&#8217;ll see three different Nickis, each styled completely differently,” Mashable added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We have never called an issue Break the Internet since we did it back in 2014 with Kim Kardashian. It takes a certain type of talent, with an awesome fan base and the ability to put trust in PAPER to work our magic,&#8221; </span><a href="http://www.papermag.com/nicki-minaj-break-the-internet-sexy-cover-2017-2509477482.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">explained</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Paper’s creative director, Drew Elliott.</span></p>


Nicki Minaj Breaks The Internet For Second Time In A Week, Pushing Dress Sales Up 1,011%

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rapper Nicki Minaj reportedly increased sales of Crocs footwear by 4,900 percent on Tuesday after she shared a nude photograph on social media, posing wearing nothing more than a “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hot pink bedazzled pair of Crocs</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Anaconda star had intended the image to be a teaser for an upcoming project, as she shared it on her social media pages alongside the cryptic caption ‘Friday,’” reported </span><a href="https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/nude-nicki-minaj-snapshot-causes-spike-in-crocs-sales"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WENN</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, adding, “But what Nicki perhaps hadn’t predicted was that the picture – which featured her wearing a hot pink bedazzled pair of Crocs and using fluffy cushions to otherwise protect her modesty – would lead to a massive spike in sales for the footwear company.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to reports, the pink Crocs were so highly sought after that the Crocs website crashed as fans rushed to buy their own pair, while “pink Crocs” and “Nicki Minaj Crocs” trended on Google Search. </span></p>
<p>&#8220;Nicki Minaj has crashed the official crocs website after her comeback photo,&#8221; tweeted a Nicki Minaj fan-page.</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/HARDWHlTE/status/1391900611701002242</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s unclear whether the pic is a hint that Minaj will be collaborating with Crocs, following in the footsteps of <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/12/08/post-malones-new-2020-crocs-just-droppedheres-where-to-buy/">Post Malone</a>, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2021/03/16/justin-biebers-crocs-by-drew-house-where-to-buy-how-much-they-cost/">Justin Bieber</a>, and<a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/09/29/bad-bunnys-crocs-just-dropped-heres-where-to-buy-and-how-much-they-cost/"> Bad Bunny</a> — all of whom have had wildly successful launches with the footwear company in the past year,&#8221; noted <a href="https://pagesix.com/2021/05/11/crocs-site-crashes-after-nicki-minaj-poses-nude-in-pink-pair/">Page Six</a>.</p>
<p>Crocs rose in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/crocs-are-back-in-style-and-not-just-because-of-coronavirus-11590235200">The Wall Street Journal</a> reporting, &#8220;The foam plastic footwear, known for being easy on the feet if less so on the eyes, is one of the few major retail brands to navigate the COVID-19 era successfully. For some, Crocs are the perfect shoes to wear when no one can see you wear them. For others, a pair of the colorful clogs is a fashion statement.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal added, &#8220;Crocs was the only footwear brand among the top 30 tracked by researchers at NPD Group to record sales growth in March, a 14% increase compared with the same month in 2019.&#8221;</p>
<p class="paywall"><a href="https://thesolesupplier.co.uk/">The Sole Supplier</a> reported the 4,900 percent sales spike in twenty-four hours for the footwear company, while <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/nicki-minaj-causes-4-900-spike-in-pink-crocs-sales-report-news.131746.html?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1620738928">HNHH</a> wrote, &#8220;That much can be confirmed by the number of Barbz that have shared their receipts from the online Crocs shop, buying up multiple pairs of shoes, which were described as &#8216;ugly&#8217; a few years ago. The tide has turned with Crocs currently making a serious comeback, complementing Nicki&#8217;s own return. Nicki had her clogs fully customized with Chanel Jibbitz.&#8221;</p>
<p>Crocs, Inc., is an American company based in Niwot, Colorado. Established in 2002, Crocs was founded by Lyndon &#8220;Duke&#8221; Hanson and George Boedecker, Jr. Since its inception, over 300 million pairs have been sold, with the company posting a net income of $143 million in 2019, with a third-quarter 2019 revenue of $1.2 billion.</p>
<p>Multiple political figures have been seen wearing the foam footwear, including then-President George W. Bush in 2007, and First Lady Michelle Obama in 2009.</p>


Nicki Minaj Shares Nude Photo Wearing ‘Hot Pink Bedazzled Pair Of Crocs,’ Sales Surge 4,900 Percent, Crocs Website Crashes

Fashion

<p>Singer Lana Del Rey is getting trashed for daring to call out the glaring hypocrisy of those criticizing her music for not being feminist enough, while promoting the likes of Cardi B, Nick Minaj, and Beyoncé.</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAcQPuBJdir/?utm_source=ig_embed">Instagram post</a> on Thursday, Del Rey scolded her critics for labeling her as anti-feminist for &#8220;singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing, cheating, etc — can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorizing abuse?&#8221; Del Rey asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorize abuse when in reality I&#8217;m just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world,&#8221; she continued.</p>
<p>As noted by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/21/lana-del-rey-hits-back-at-critics-who-say-she-glamorises-abuse">The Guardian</a>, Del Rey has been accused of promoting &#8220;regressive sexual politics&#8221; in her music since the release of her debut album &#8220;Born to Die&#8221; in 2012. At the time, Pitchfork even said of her work: “You’d be hard-pressed to find any song on which Del Rey reveals an interiority or figures herself as anything more complex than an ice-cream-cone-licking object of male desire.”</p>
<p>Del Rey denounced such critics as &#8220;pathetic&#8221; for alleging that her music somehow set women back to a more primitive era.</p>
<p>&#8220;With all of the topics women are finally allowed to explore, I just want to say over the last ten years I think it&#8217;s pathetic that my minor lyrical exploration detailing my sometimes submissive or passive rules in my relationships has often made people say I&#8217;ve set women back hundreds of years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Let this be clear, I&#8217;m not not a feminist – but there has to be a place in feminism for women who look and act like me – the kind of woman who says no but men hear yes –  the kind of women who are slated mercilessly for being their authentic, delicate selves, the kind of women who get their own stories and voices taken away from them by stronger women or by men who hate women.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Despite her passionate plea for fairness, critics on social media dinged Del Rey for criticizing Cardi B and Beyoncé – women of color.</p>
<p>&#8220;She aimed her question to &#8216;the culture&#8217; and then proceeded to name black women specifically (and Ariana/Camilla) who make R&amp;B, Hip Hop, and Urban music,&#8221; one Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/titanbaddie/status/1263385562284785666?s=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a>. &#8220;Why is that? Why not Taylor? Billie? Adele? Gaga? Katy? Dua?&#8230; Why specifically the &#8216;urban’ girls?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know who was giving Lana Del Rey a hard time but I&#8217;m pretty sure it wasn&#8217;t Black women. Girl, sing your little cocaine carols and leave us alone,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/1263449168833425408" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> cultural critic and writer Jamilah Lemieux.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Lana&#8217;s post would have been fine if she hadn&#8217;t compared herself to a group of mostly black women with the clear tone that she thinks she&#8217;s been treated worse by the media when that’s observably untrue,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1263393209801203712" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> writer and activist Shon Faye.</p>


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