Nicki Minaj is not taking what she views as disrespect towards Lil Wayne in silence — even if it comes from JAY-Z.
Amid the news that Kendrick Lamar will be performing during the halftime show at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, many felt that the choice was a snub to Wayne, a New Orleans native — and some of those people blamed JAY-Z, whose company Roc Nation is the NFL’s Live Music Entertainment Strategist.
Among that crowd of Hov-blamers is Nicki, who unleashed a string of posts on X on Monday (September 9).
“I love watching the whole industry play dumb time after time,” she began. Then, in a message presumably directed at JAY, she wrote, “Go & enjoy your fkng money b4 it’s too late.”
In a direct reference to criticism that JAY and Roc Nation took when they began their partnership with the NFL — that they were undermining the struggle for racial justice in the league that burst into public consciousness with Colin Kaepernick — she wrote: “One n-gga took a knee. The other n-gga took the bag. He gon get you ‘n-ggers’ in line every fkng time.”
She continued taking shots, saying that JAY was in business with “the Politicians and the police”: “Got everything in the world. Still spiteful & evil,” she wrote. “Disgusting.”
She then directly addressed what she viewed as the root of the issue: that what she called JAY’s “hatred” of her, Drake, and Birdman led to him denying Wayne a showcase he deserved.
“Denying a young black man what he rightfully put into this game for no other reason but your ego,” she wrote. “Your hatred for BIRDMAN, Drake & Nicki got you punishing Lil Wayne?!?!!!”
