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Ahead of the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards later this month, the award show has announced that Nicki Minaj will receive the Video Vanguard award. The rapper is set to perform during the awards ceremony on August 28, 2022, with a medley of some of her greatest hits. She’s also nominated in the “Best Hip Hop” category for the Lil Baby collaboration “Do We Have a Problem?,” a strongly contested category that also includes Future and Drake’s “Wait For U,” and Kendrick Lamar’s “N95.”Previous recipients of the Video Vanguard…

Drake kept his word to Toronto.On Saturday night, the OVO boss presented the much-anticipated Young Money Reunion show with Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj. Photos and videos of the event have started to pour in on social media, showing the megastars at the Budweiser Stage performing for a sold-out crowd.The event was initially set to take place Aug. 1, on what would’ve been the third and final day of October World Weekend; but just hours before the concert’s kickoff, Drake announced he had test positive for COVID-19 and,…

The hit-and-run driver who previously pleaded guilty in connection with a fatal crash that killed Nicki Minaj’s father was sentenced on Wednesday.According to a report from TMZ, the driver—Charles Polevich—was sentenced to serve a year behind bars on Wednesday. Additionally, Polevich’s driver’s license will be suspended for a period of six months and he will be required to pay a fine of $5,000.Polevich previously pleaded guilty to charges in connection with leaving the scene of the fatal February 2021 crash in New York.…

Nicki Minaj has had it with “dumb” people who believe improbable claims they stumble upon on social media.In a video shared to social media this week, Nicki spoke out about claims that recently made the rounds after being shared by an Instagram account purporting to be operated by a former assistant. The account carried the username @katemiller_7 and has since been removed, with an associated profile picture having since been revealed to have actually been a photo of a notable author and not this claimed “Kate Miller”…

Nicki Minaj will soon allow fans to see a side of her they have never seen before in the six-part documentary series Nicki. Nicki shared the trailer for Nicki on Thursday, which she teased on Instagram would be “coming out sooner than  you think.”Check it out below via Twitter. “I took some time to perfect this very intimate, delicate, electrifying, inspiring body of work,” Minaj wrote on Instagram. “As I decide on a home for this project, I can’t help but reflect on what I’m including in this doc. Some things are so…

After entertaining a huge crowd at the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park over the weekend, Minaj made the spontaneous decision to play at Cafe KOKO in Camden. However, Minaj was forced to seal herself inside the vehicle after arriving at the venue much later than she’d anticipated on Sunday. She had previously stuck her head out the sunroof to wave to the crowds of enthusiastic fans. Minaj actually went on Twitter to warn fans who gathered around the car that the Metropolitan Police wouldn’t allow the event to go as…

A meet and greet scheduled in Camden for Nicki Minaj had to be cancelled due to overcrowding.Adoring fans descended upon Cafe Koko in their droves after the rapper took to social media to reveal she would be at the venue from noon on Monday.Allow Instagram content?This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content,click 'Allow and continue'.Delays meant the performer did not arrive until just…

Nicki Minaj may have been trolling the Barbz.Ahead of her performance at London’s Wireless Festival, the 39-year-old rapper took to Instagram Live to chop it up with her fans. About midway through the broadcast, Nicki was asked if she and her husband, Kenneth Petty, were expecting a second child.“Am I pregnant?” she read with wide eyes. “… Oh, I did mean to tweet this: ‘I’m not fat, y’all, I’m pregnant. Yeah, I meant to tell y’all, I forgot.”Fans immediately began congratulating Nicki on the big news, with one user…

Nicki Minaj’s childhood sweetheart turned husband, Kenneth Petty has a troubled background. In 2019, after being stopped for a traffic violation in Los Angeles, authorities learned that Kenneth had not registered as a s*x offender in California while residing there with Nicki. In September 2021, Kenneth previously entered a guilty plea to the charges. After many extensions on his part, he was also told to pay a fine of USD 5000. He was accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl in 1994, and as a result, he was…

Kenneth Petty, the husband of rapper Nicki Minaj, will not serve prison time for failing to register in California as a sex offender. Instead, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald sentenced Petty on Wednesday afternoon to a year of home confinement and three years of probation. The judge also ordered Petty to pay a $55,000 fine, according to U.S. Department of Justice spokesperson Ciaran McEvoy, whose office prosecuted the case.Petty, 44, who was convicted in New York in 1995 of attempted rape, previously served a…