Nicki Minaj livestreams her personal arrest in Amsterdam for “carrying medicine”
Nicki Minaj livestreamed her personal arrest in Amsterdam right this moment (Might 25), as she seemed to be detained for “carrying medicine” whereas travelling for a present in Manchester.
The rapper carried out within the Dutch metropolis on Thursday evening, the opening present of a UK and European tour that is because of take her to Manchester’s Co-Op Dwell tonight, adopted by Birmingham, London and Glasgow, and a run of reveals across the continent in early June.
However in an Instagram Dwell publish, Minaj filmed what seemed to be a bunch of Dutch cops arresting her and asking her to enter a police car so they might take her to the station.
Watch the footage under:
Nicki Minaj has been arrested in Amsterdam (of all locations) for “carrying medicine.”
Minaj instantly went on Instagram Dwell and requested for a lawyer.
She initially declined to get right into a police car till she had a lawyer and repeatedly requested for the deal with of the place she was… pic.twitter.com/3QwFockAnu
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 25, 2024
They inform her that they imagine she is “carrying medicine”, which she instantly denies. Minaj repeatedly says that she shouldn’t be going anyplace with out the presence of a lawyer, to which one of many officers makes an attempt to elucidate that she would “get a lawyer on the workplace”, and that they’d go “as quick as doable”.
Minaj asks for the deal with of the station they’re going to, which they don’t give. The officers additionally clarify that they may attempt to assist her get to her present in Manchester tonight.
Co-Op Dwell did ship out a message on X shortly after Minaj’s video went dwell, saying: “Please notice that basic admission and premium doorways for tonight’s @NickiMinaj present will now open at 19:00”.
Please notice that basic admission and premium doorways for tonight’s @NickiMinaj present will now open at 19:00.
— Co-op Dwell (@TheCoopLive) May 25, 2024
NME has contacted Minaj’s representatives and the venue for clarification on the present standing of the musician and tonight’s efficiency.
Earlier within the day, Minaj had posted a sequence of tweets which seem to indicate her baggage being searched totally on the airport.
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
“They’ve been attempting the whole lot they presumably can to TRY to cease this tour,” she wrote in a single publish.
“They took my baggage & once I requested the place it’s they stated it’s on the aircraft. It couldn’t have been, I simply pulled up,” learn one other.
Minaj went on to say she was apprehensive that they could “plant” one thing in considered one of her baggage.
“They’re being paid huge cash to attempt to sabotage my tour b/c soooooo many ppl are mad that it’s this profitable & they will’t eat off me,” she stated. “They received caught stealing cash from my journey/jets. Received fired. Received mad. And so on.”
They’re being paid huge cash to attempt to sabotage my tour b/c soooooo many ppl are mad that it’s this profitable & they will’t eat off me. They received caught stealing cash from my journey/jets. Received fired. Received mad. And so on.
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
I’m
nonetheless in my automobile. They took my baggage w/o consent. Lied & stated it was on the jet.— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
That is Amsterdam btw, the place weed is authorized. 😛
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
😩 now they stated they discovered weed & that one other group of ppl have to come back right here to weigh the pre-rolls. Bear in mind they took my baggage with out consent. My safety has already suggested them these pre-rolls belong to him. Oh yea & the pilot desires me to take my ig publish down.
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
In a later tweet, she stated: “Now they stated they discovered weed & that one other group of ppl have to come back right here to weigh the pre-rolls. Bear in mind they took my baggage with out consent. My safety has already suggested them these pre-rolls belong to him. Oh yea & the pilot desires me to take my ig publish down.”
She additionally stated that her filming the officers has made them “mad” and that they weren’t ready for her being “prepared” for them.
Minaj’s present tour is available in celebration of her long-awaited ‘Pink Friday 2’ album, which arrived in December and obtained a four-star overview from NME‘s Nick Levine upon its launch.
Levine wrote: “‘Pink Friday 2’ looks like a consolidation and refinement of the whole lot Minaj can do – together with dropping popular culture references that no different artist would consider. “Ducking ’em like Björk?” That’s certainly a wink to the Icelandic musician’s notorious skirmish with a photographer. 13 years after ‘Pink Friday’, Nicki Minaj hasn’t misplaced her means to catch us unexpectedly.”