#nicki-minaj

#nicki-minaj

She was talking with her guest about Minaj's embrace of the president and movement to the far-right, when Ingraham brought up an issue she has with Minaj's music. "Conservatives, including myself, were beyond disgusted by some of her lyrics in her songs over the years," Ingraham said. "W.A.P., I won't say what that stands for, but-" She then apparently was informed that "WAP" is not by Nicki Minaj.

Minaj also said she plans to pledge between $150,000 and $300,000 to support the new Trump Accounts. Created under Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the program provides savings accounts of $1,000 for every child born between 2025 and 2028. That money is then invested in the stock market by private firms, and made accessible to the child when they turn 18.

"I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old," she wrote in a 2018 Facebook post during the immigration crackdowns of the first Trump administration. Next to images of a juvenile detention center, she continued, "I can't imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror & panic these kids feel right now?"

Sparklers sizzled, boom-badoom-boom bass thumped, and Nicki Minaj emerged onstage at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest last month to deliver the latest plot twist in an exhausting year for politics and pop culture. The rapper-whose straight black hair reached the hem of her sleek minidress-sat down with Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, who sported medieval-princess blond braids and waves. Then Minaj tore into previous presidential administrations for being un-Christian and uncool.

I'll be honest, it didn't take long for the fresh, excited energy I was trying to bring into 2026 to be quashed. (But maybe that's on me I forgot to put "attack a foreign country and seize its leader with only the murkiest of communications about what might come next" on my "out" list this year.) But this week, I want to talk about two other stories that, when juxtaposed,

The 12-time Grammy nominee also doubled down on her opposition to governor of California Gavin Newsom, due to his support for trans youth, and urged young boys to be more masculine. She told the crowd: "Boys, be boys... It's OK. Be boys. There's nothing wrong with being a boy... How powerful is that? How profound is that? Boys will be boys and there's nothing wrong with that."

Minaj, who spoke at an event held by the US embassy to the United Nations, thanked Trump for "for prioritizing this issue and for his leadership."

According to a TikTok mash-up that has been used in more than 463,000 videos, you don't just scream "What's going on?" Linda Perry thinks the viral remix of 4 Non Blondes' 1993 track "What's Up?" with Nicki Minaj and 2 Chainz's 2012 hit "Beez in the Trap" is "ridiculous in all the best ways," she said in a statement to Rolling Stone. It's the reason she joined TikTok this month.