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What Happened to Nicki Minaj? · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  with a certain celebrity.
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  And we thought we would come out of the gates swinging,
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  having the barbs just driving up those episode downloads.
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  We're here today to talk about Nicki Minaj.
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  - And what the fuck is going on with her?
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  So let me start this off live.
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  Were you ever a barb?
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  - No. - Barb is what Nicki Minaj fans call themselves
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  for the uninitiated.
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  - For the people who see the sun on a daily basis
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  and not chronically online.
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  Yeah, the barbs are Nicki Minaj fans.
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  I cannot remember why they're called barbs.
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  - Because Nicki calls herself Barbie a lot in her songs.
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  - I was a barb first.
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  - Oh, okay.
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  - She said, I self-identified.
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  - I did.
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  So she calls herself Barbie a lot in her songs
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  and any features that she had with Drake and Lil Wayne,
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  they would refer to her as Barbie.
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  Her first breakout album was called The Pink Print.
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  And it was very Barbie-centric.
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  She looks like a doll on the cover.
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  Money's so tall that my barb has got to climb it.
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  Like, "Oh, God."
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  She was so cool for a minute, you guys.
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  Okay, so Nicki Minaj, whose name is Onika Tanya Marage Petty,
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  born in 1982, is from Trinidad.
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  She's a rapper, singer, songwriter.
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  She was once dubbed the Queen of Rap
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  and one of the most influential rappers of all time.
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  So we are gonna talk about what on Earth is going on
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  with her right after this break.
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  And we're back from our little breaky.
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  I hope you took a good peepie.
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  We're gonna talk more about what the fuck is going on with Nicki Minaj.
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  Okay, so like we were saying, Nicki Minaj was once known
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  as the Queen of Rap.
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  She was insanely popular.
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  - For our age group, I would say, maybe not all time.
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  - Oh, yeah. I definitely don't think all time.
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  I think, "Oh, God."
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  I mean, her and Lil Kim had a big beef going on there
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  in the beginning too.
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  I do hate this culture that there can only be one female
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  rapper popular at a time, right?
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  - Yeah.
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  - And that everybody tries to pit them against each other.
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  I hate that.
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  So I'm so glad that it seems like we've kind of gotten away with that.
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  And people are-- - Not in a way for that.
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  - Again, got away from that.
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  Excuse me. Yeah, got away from that.
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  And that people are starting to realize, wow,
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  more than one female rapper can support each other
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  and be popular at the same time.
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  Imagine that.
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  But Nicki Minaj's debut studio album, "Pink Friday."
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  Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, the "Pink Print" was 2014.
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  "Pink Friday" was the one where she looked like a cute Barbie doll.
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  Came out in 2010 and opened with the largest female
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  rap album sales of the 21st century.
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  So-- - Wow.
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  - Crazy popular.
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  I remember in 2010 when I was first dating Andrew.
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  He got it for me on CD.
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  - Oh.
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  - He was a keeper.
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  - He brought me the Nicki Minaj CD, "Pink Flowers."
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  He wore a pink shirt and had a pink birthday cake.
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  It was a whole thing.
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  - Wow. Yeah.
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  So you were a bar.
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  - You were a bar.
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  - A bar.
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  - I was a bar.
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  - I would say, like, I liked little Wayne.
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  I liked Drake.
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  So by extension, I just knew a lot of Nicki Minaj.
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  And I also went to high school in college in the 2010s.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Or late 2000s.
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  Let's keep ourselves on as tier.
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  Where it was impossible to avoid Nicki Minaj.
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  She was quite famous.
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  She was in a lot of other rappers songs.
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  But I do think that she had this level of crossover.
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  Like her and Ariana Grande were so close and did a lot of collaborative things.
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  She also had a relationship with Taylor Swift and other people.
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  So she really was this crossover into pop and rap.
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  - Yeah.
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  - And she was saying she did both Nicki Minaj.
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  - Exactly.
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  On the same album, she would have a song, like, "Roman's Revenge," where it's just straight up rap.
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  I loved it when she rapped.
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  When it was a little more pop, I wasn't too much of a fan.
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  She was still great, right?
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  Her next album's "Pinkfront," "Pink Friday 2."
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  I mean, she had hits like "Anaconda Chun Lee," which was a little problematic, right?
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  Starships is probably one of her most famous songs of all time.
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  - I hear it in my mind.
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  The second it gets like, "Starship, emitting me."
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  - Yeah.
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  - That's what she sounds like.
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  - I was getting a little over her by that point, right?
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  Like, once she started getting a little too pop for me, I was like, "Okay."
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  I don't know.
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  I wanted a rap.
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  I wanted some filthy fucking rap.
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  She was great when she was featured.
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  Oh, God.
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  And then another...
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  She's featured in the Kanye song "Monster."
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  And, oh, my God.
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  I loved that song so much back in the day.
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  I knew the entire verse in "Ass"
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  My ass by
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  God I almost said Sean Paul but I just wanted
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  He was
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  Big Sean
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  Dupal
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  Ariana Grande
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  No, I think that
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  Nikki is like an iconic feature feature artist
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  But she really started off controversial
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  So like in 2011 we mentioned she had the little Kim feud and
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  They like little Kim released the diss mixed tape black Friday
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  With artwork and lyrics attacking Nicki Minaj and you know, it's still like an ongoing feud
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  In 2011 she had her famous good morning America wardrobe malfunction
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  Where she pulled a Janet Jackson
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  And then of course like her lyrics and things always kind of kept her
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  controversial and in the discussion like the anaconda album cover and video like really sparked a debate on
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  What should what should women's sexual expression be and you know, I think ultimately like
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  Nicki Minaj like so many artists that are now our favorite pop artists like
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  was so embraced by the LGBTQ community and
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  Was seen as just kind of like this bar like Barbie icon?
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  That's where the names came from with her pink wigs and hair like her rightly colored outfits and everything
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  She was definitely a gay icon. I definitely don't think that is the case anymore
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  And we will get to that yeah really she started getting a lot of
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  I don't know like the sexuality in the anaconda and the skimpy outfits and stuff
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  I feel like that's every female artist
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  Right is like how much is there sexuality part of their career and what should they be wearing?
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  And not wearing and I mean we could go on about that with every female artists
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  career but kind of the late like
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  2018 onward is when I think things started to get kind of strange started to go a little downhill
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  Miss Minaj
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  She performed in Saudi Arabia. Well, that was 2019. Yeah, so it's like 2018 19 onwards, right?
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  So she she had an altercation with Cardi B in 2018
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  Where Cardi B lunched at Nikki and threw a shoe. Yeah, still more
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  Like you know female rapper
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  They're gonna only do ones. Yeah, they can only be one exactly the Saudi Arabia performance
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  At the Jetta world fest
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  She started to face a lot of pushback from like human rights organizations and LGBTQ people
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  Being like why if you support us why are you going to be performing and headlining at this show that
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  In a country that you know strips LGBTQ people of their rights, right?
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  So if you're gonna be known as a gay icon or claim that or you know claim to support us
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  You know
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  Talk your walk and walk your talk or whatever she did pull out of that festival
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  That that's that that's good at least
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  And then you know as as most celebrities did
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  In 2020 they lost the plot a little bit
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  So she did a collaboration with
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  Takashi
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  X9 I think that's how you say it's named tech nine no tech nine someone different. I like tech nine. Yeah her work with him was after
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  He was like convicted which is this is kind of crazy like the song was on trolls
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  So it's kind of like okay was it was it Nicki Minaj or was it um you know ultimately like the trolls movie
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  um she had some
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  Disrespectful lyrics to Rosa Parks as well um but right around this time is when she ultimately meets
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  her okay, so right around like this time in 2020 is where Nicki Minaj's husband Kenneth Petty starts to have legal issues
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  Now we missed this in the 2017 and on um her brother Jolani Mirage is convicted um of
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  SA against an 11 year old girl
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  Yeah, we should probably trigger warning here real quick we're gonna talk about sexual assault and um
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  Pedophilia I mean just disgusting things that her she is um I don't know that her family members are involved in yeah
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  There's a reason this called what the fuck is going on
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  So yeah, I was shown to say I'd take care uh and
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  If this is triggering definitely don't listen to it. Yeah, I'm skipping ahead a couple minutes
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  Um so in 2017 her brother is convicted. He sentenced to 25 years to life
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  um in prison. So uh very serious charges those don't happen frequently
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  And if I remember correctly she like publicly stood by him
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  Right
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  Yes, and especially with her husband so in 2019
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  I'm to really to 2022 and you'll see a lot of the the statements that she people know like coincide with these two things right yeah
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  So in 2018 the wheels started off all off and they just keep going and her
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  Husband Kenneth Petty is a level two registered sex offender
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  It stems from a 1995 conviction related to the attempted SA of a 16 year old
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  He has been arrested multiple times for failure to register as a sex offender in the state of California
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  After moving in with binosh yep and has been receiving probation and house arrest as a result and then
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  In I think 2022 a civil suit alleges that binosh and petty her husband uh tried to contact
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  One of his accusers and pay her off essentially and then when she said no they started to harass her
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  And ultimately that is what the civil suits as well
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  So she has
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  publicly stood by her husband and by her brother who are both
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  convicted sex offenders
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  and
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  I just I don't understand
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  What choice this was in her career
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  Or as a human being obviously just as a human being what this choice was
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  Yeah, and you know, obviously these are things that she did
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  But these are people that she associates herself with and people that she has defended
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  And she is still married to Kenneth Petty who is a
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  brother so we'll give you that
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  But exactly you can stand by him and you know right around this time when everything is is happening
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  She really starts making some very crazy statements again. It was like 2020
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  Yeah, so he when the um the uh
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  Jacksonation yeah, oh my god covid remember when that was a thing
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  She came out and against the covid vaccination saying that she had a cousin who took it in that it gave him a
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  Function right oh no his balls tripled that I think it was something like that yeah
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  I made him have like really large balls. Yeah, it is something to his ball sack
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  And she like tweeted about this
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  This is about the time when I mean she's always had kind of like weird tweets like her abdominal trump have been like
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  You know, weird tweet buddies for a long time even before she started, you know loving him
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  But yeah, yeah, so don't take the covid vaccine because your balls will either get too big or too small or you're dick up all off
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  I don't remember
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  That's not true by the way
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  Yeah, do not take your medical advice from
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  Nicki Minaj uh yes, and your balls will be fine if you get vaccinated
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  And because of that I do think that that
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  So these two things really coincide right she makes the
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  She has all the stuff going on with her husband and her brother
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  She makes these covid 19 vaccine comments and receives like a men's back blush
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  Um, she is no stranger to controversy. She has actually milked it a lot of the time we talked about
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  Oh, Kim, Miley Cyrus, um, Mariah Carey like
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  She's what's good Miley
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  Yeah, and that has really propelled her career forward
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  But this is the first moment where things do not really go the way that she
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  Thought they would right she's making it like she's making this statement and things really start to
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  Like people ultimately start to cancel her. I think that's the differences like
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  The in the wrapping feuds and like calling out Miley
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  And I don't know some of that is just kind of like things that entertainment like that we all kind of drool for right
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  I mean we've always been pitting pop stars against each other obviously mostly women but even
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  I don't know the monkeys in the beetles can't exist at the same time in the backs for boys and in sync can exist at the same time and
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  You know, we've always kind of
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  Clamored for celebrity drama and feuds and Taylor and Katie
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  But once she started making like anti-science comments
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  Yeah supporting pedophiles that's when it's like it gets a little too
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  real and it gets out of that like
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  Oh cute fun pop culture like guess who's arguing into like okay people are actually following you and reading what you're saying and you're spreading this information
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  And standing by some really pop problematic people. So I think that's that like shift right between yeah, aha
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  This is silly and like oh god what the fuck is going on with Nicki Minaj
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  Yeah, I would say the like average pop culture person probably doesn't know about her husband
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  Mm-hmm, but they do like just the average person has probably been exposed to
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  Her comments about the vaccine. Yeah, we were all really covering it. We're all stuck inside
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  And I think it was this this negative attention and unfortunately like I don't have the right answer here
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  But a lot of the time when these mega stars get canceled
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  They're so narcissistic
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  That it's like the world is against me like they do fall into
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  This like mega pipeline a lot of the time after one of those events and it's like well
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  Screw it like I just said one thing and now nobody wants me like yeah
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  I might as well just start going really crazy and like honestly get like red red piled ultimately. Yeah, right?
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  I mean now that we're saying this all out loud right like for a while
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  I think that I was like oh my god. She keeps she went mega out of nowhere
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  But like it's kind of easy to follow the dots now right and kind of follow like I mean
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  Honestly a lot of
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  She supports more sexual assault convictions. That's kind of mega-coded. She is in 2024
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  A video circulated online that showed her husband using a gaysalor
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  Right, and so that prompted a lot of like backlash from her LGBTQ fans
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  Who aren't seeing her as an ally at this point now that she's you know talking like yeah, I don't know just strange homophobic tweets and stuff too like
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  She starts saying some really strange things online. That's really alienating her fan base
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  And I think that is gonna take us up to a
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  2025 and kind of what's going on right now. We're gonna take one more quick break and talk about
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  What's going on with her in the past year or so?
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  So
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  So the reason a lot of people have been seeing Nicki Minaj and the headlines recently is that she has gone full
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  MAGA
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  Trump supporting turning point USA
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  Yeah, that is her now
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  She was at the um turning point USA conference on stage with Erica Kirk which is when um
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  I mean she was already kind of tweeting support about Donald Trump at this point
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  And so she kind of like came out as you know a Trump supporter
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  But seeing her on stage at the turning point USA conference with Erica Kirk
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  I think was just a huge slap in the face right to anybody who stood by her anybody who
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  Was a fan people of color her LGBTQ fans
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  Because Charlie Kirk was known as such a hateful person and such an alienating
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  person and her up there, you know
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  Holding hands with Erica and just kind of aligning herself with the MAGA movement
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  Was it was a little shocking when it when it first kind of happened right?
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  Yeah, I think like if you looked at kind of like her her tweets people in October of last year really started talking about
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  Nicki Minaj was falling off
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  Again, we don't like that this happens, but it's just like she's not the top rapper anymore. It's because she's MAGA
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  And like these kind of like book the barbs are intense like they may come for us for talking about her
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  And you know, so there is like always this culture war happening around Nicki Minaj like she has mega super fans like who are super
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  Dedicated to her and will will dox you like they'll do a ton of crazy things
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  Yeah, and so these discussions of people like non Nicki Minaj's a MAGA like hate or nobody should listen to her
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  A lot of people were even like don't even use her sounds on TikTok like
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  So there was this kind of discussion and then she shows up at turning point USA
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  Yeah, again, I do feel like it's her
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  trying to take like a
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  Pop like what she's done did in 2010's with like pop stars, but do it with politicians where people
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  Just like lives are on the line and there's very real consequences outside of like
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  Miley and Nicki at the BMA stage, you know the consequences are real now and families are being torn apart right
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  We're seeing like human rights violations almost on a daily basis at this administration
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  And that's who she chose to align herself with yeah recently. There is pictures. I don't remember what have been
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  It was of her and Donald Trump holding hands and as well as decrepit hand
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  With this big old Bruce and her long nails, right? Do that thing's been there for a really long time
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  I know we talked about that Bruce like months ago
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  Yeah, you asked me if he was dead
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  If this is maybe he's gonna die and this is gonna be a really dark joke. Um, I said no my dad has that
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  Oh, no, so maybe Trump will die. Yeah, maybe Trump will die
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  Maybe he will die
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  I'm so again. I'm sorry
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  We're back babies. We're so bad. We're so bad. We're so bad. We're both in the dead parent club now
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  We'll wait a little longer before you make jokes listen. I had like 19 years
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  No, I'm it I'm at a joke the first day
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  You did make a funny joke to me like when we met for drinks like the neck
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  I don't know, but I won't say it on the podcast because it was a little inappropriate to oh maybe yeah
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  I was about the presence that you got from somebody and I asked you to use them yet
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  Oh, yes
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  Yeah, we're not telling you about on the podcast. Oh my god anyway, so
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  All of this
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  Squirrel okay, so okay, so some people are all so claiming yes all of these people are also claiming that her alignment with Trump
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  are maybe to secure partners for her brother and for her husband. Mm-hmm. I could see that yeah
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  Or to make sure that she doesn't get deported back to Trinidad
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  Oh, that's strange
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  The funniest part is Nicki Minaj is not an actual citizen
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  She is not I don't know she has dual citizenship. I don't know. Maybe when you're really not a US citizen
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  Yeah, that's quite funny
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  Following a lot of this in when after turning point USA
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  She was losing millions of followers and yeah, it's a deactivated or Instagram account
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  She went a little quiet for a bed and then you know really just came back in February on a tear
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  um, so
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  As of recording she talked about
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  The moon landing
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  She talked about
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  Don Lemon right oh the yes Don lemon was arrested at an anti-ice rally for protesting as you know lots of people are
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  Being arrested right now for peaceful protesting and literally, you know utilizing their freedom of speech
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  So what did she do she tweets some shit about him?
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  He was literally just they're reporting like at church and he got arrested
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  Yeah, so
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  She tweeted this was like right around the time where he was protesting. I think he
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  She posted this right before he was arrested or
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  After which is a civil rights violation can't arrest a press literally
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  But she tweeted Don cock second lemon is disgusting. How dare you? I want that thug in jail
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  Mitt but not your husband
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  He would never do that to any other religion lock him up. Oh my god. That is how many mega whistles can she put in one tweet
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  She also said if you ever vote demon crap again, you're just as soulless as they are and will perish
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  I love this article that I'm reading it from to wrote nicky who is married to a registered sex offender
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  Us this whole time yeah your husband literally so she's been calling them. Oh yeah your favorite artist has been proactive
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  Sing rituals in a satanic cult where they take babies from other countries and mutilate them and kill them
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  As a form of blood sacrifice to their god you see when your master is Satan
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  You must constantly shed blood
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  She's definitely gotten into this kind of like Christian leaning thing to which is also very mega coded, you know
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  Your only Christian if you're a public and you're only a Christian if you vote for Donald Trump
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  But she uh
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  She's definitely leaning in I did love Trevor Noah's joke at the Grammys when he said
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  Nicki Minaj is not here. She is still at the um White House with Donald Trump
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  Discussing very important issues and like everybody went crazy and started cheering
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  And my girl Chrissy Teagan was behind him just like thumbs up
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  Yeah, good nicky's not here, which of course made nicky mad but
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  I think this we're seeing kind of the downfall after that she tweeted that is like everybody knows Trevor Noah has a boyfriend
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  You literally who first of all does everyone know that in second of all who fucking cares right this is a woman who is supposed to be a
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  LGBTQ icon and like ally and she is
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  blatantly homophobic now like she's blatantly just
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  Accusing everybody that she disagrees with of being gay in a derogatory way and
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  I don't know being a demon crap. So I don't do a demon crap
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  A gay demon a gay demon crap
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  The pop culture junkie way being a date or gay demon crap
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  Who's amongst us gay demon crap
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  Um, what are they what is it? It's like uh
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  Fuck I'm gonna have to make a meme about it
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  Do you think in your opinion that there is any coming back she has lost
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  The hundreds of about millions of fans. I'm sure she's lost so many downloads. She's lost
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  Instagram followers Twitter followers. Do you think there's any coming back
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  From Nicki Minaj
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  So like if I were her crisis PR team mm-hmm. I feel like I'd have to go like old school playbook like I'm
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  What Kanye West is doing right yeah, I was just thinking that yeah like I'm sorry. I
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  And okay two eights. I'm on drugs or I was having a psychotic break over the stress of
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  My brother and my husband yep divorce your pedophile husband
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  Yeah, maybe one three in one. Yeah, like if you go I had a psychotic break
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  I became addicted to drugs from the stress of being with an abusive person. Yep
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  And I and yeah and I'm and I'm leaving her abusive if that's what they're doing to children. Oh, yeah, yeah
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  She could release a gospel album and just go full right wing mega and just
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  You know
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  gospel rap album
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  No, just straight up just just gospel just Jesus music. Yeah, just straight up Jesus music put on that little mega
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  She could have the mega makeup routine down
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  She's coming for you who bestink. Oh my god. I really have that top spot of Christian band
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  Oh, I love it was take oh
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  Exactly, that's what I mean she could rock that mara log of face and just go straight Christian and just hope that no one she starts
• 30:34
  Oblivious skin to oh my god, right. I mean it's it does crack me up. This is a little side rant
• 30:41
  But how everybody got so not everybody the majority of
• 30:46
  Like normal functioning people loved the halftime show at the Super Bowl, right amazing, but then it was so good
• 30:53
  The kind of people who used to demand separate water fountains wanted their own separate
• 30:57
  Uh, halftime show
• 30:59
  So they made so they made their turning point USA halftime show with Kid Rock
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  It because you know bad bunnies lyrics are so inappropriate. I was reading the lyrics out loud to Bawa to Bawat to my husband last night
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  And he talks about met heads crackhors
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  Like prostitutes stripper poles
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  titties like
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  Hell yeah
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  Hell yeah
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  It was like this sounds like the white national anthem to me on its look yeah sounds like it
• 31:31
  He has a song about having sex with underage girls too. Yeah, he does. Yeah, but that's the magical way
• 31:37
  That's so yeah, yeah, well um that's the
• 31:42
  Kid rock from a very rich family. He's actually cosplaying his port
• 31:50
  Is he really from a rich family that's very rich very very rich like
• 31:54
  Generations rich like yeah crazy. So just cosplayed his port and I haven't watched clips of it because
• 32:04
  Why would I? So it's so funny. It's so funny
• 32:08
  Don't watch obviously the from the turning point USA do not give them any clicks or see like hate ones
• 32:14
  Yeah, watch on tiktok or on instagram and he's lip syncing so bad in denim jords
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  Anapodora I did so
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  It is
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  It's so bad. Oh, yeah, and meanwhile we got bad bunny lady Gaga petra Pascal Ricky Martin Cardi B
• 32:33
  Mm-hmm. Yeah, so good. Yeah, swirl. I don't think there's any coming back to mainstream popularity. I bet I do think
• 32:44
  I do think she'd have to hit the trifecta and still people wouldn't yeah like
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  Let her back like I think there is a level of like oh my god to it unless you were just like yeah
• 32:57
  Here's what they like you'd have to really really go for it. Yeah
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  And like start exposing people and doing things but no one believes her at this point like she's just such a controversy like artist that
• 33:11
  Um, it's now just like okay. Well, you're not who I thought you were
• 33:14
  Yeah, it's it's disappointing honestly is like somebody who used to be a fan
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  It's it's very disappointing to see I don't know just spit in the face of everybody who
• 33:24
  Supported you and to show what kind of person you really are. I think she'll obviously always have fans like you said the barbs are hardcore
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  And I'm sure there's a lot of people on the right who
• 33:35
  Are happy to have her over there now right?
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  But I don't think she's gonna be showing up to any awards shows anytime soon. I don't know if she might get some shoes thrown at her
• 33:46
  Well, she said she you know, it's it's just a satanic ritual anyway, so she doesn't want to go. Oh, you're long. Yeah, hell yeah. Tell you say
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  Hey, you'll say and on that note
• 33:57
  I think it's about time we drop up this episode
• 33:59
  That is all we have on Nikki for now, but we will keep an eye on her and update
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  As things don't know she's gonna tweet like 20
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  Weird things by the time that we edit the subject
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