Nicki Minaj’s Manchester Co-Op Reside gig cancelled after Amsterdam arrest
Nicki Minaj’s present at Manchester’s Co-Op Reside tonight (Could 25) was cancelled after she was arrested in Amsterdam earlier within the day.
The rapper was attributable to take her ‘Pink Friday 2’ reside present to the venue as a part of her ongoing UK and European tour, however she was unable to make it to the gig after the occasions within the Netherlands.
Minaj livestreamed her personal arrest this afternoon, as she gave the impression to be detained by Dutch police for allegedly “carrying medicine” whereas travelling between nations. The Dutch Nationwide Police Corps confirmed that she had been arrested, however that she had since been launched.
Doorways on the Co-Op Reside opened at 7pm, with Minaj due on stage an hour later. Nonetheless, as followers continued to attend, the announcement lastly got here at round 9:30pm that Minaj wouldn’t be performing in spite of everything.
The venue later posted an official replace: “Nicki Minaj’s scheduled efficiency at Manchester’s Co-Op Reside on Saturday twenty fifth Could has been postponed,” they wrote. “Tickets will stay legitimate for the rescheduled efficiency which can be introduced ASAP.”
Pink Friday 2 World Tour Replace pic.twitter.com/IOhOcS73pT
— Co-op Reside (@TheCoopLive) May 25, 2024
“Regardless of Nicki’s greatest efforts to discover each attainable avenue to make tonight’s present occur, the occasions of right this moment have made it unimaginable. We’re deeply upset by the inconvenience this has triggered. Extra data can be out there at your level of buy.”
The chain of occasions come after the Manchester venue, the biggest indoor area within the UK, suffered a plague of points within the run-up to its opening final month, together with postponements for reveals by Peter Kay, The Black Keys, Olivia Rodrigo and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.
In an Instagram Reside put up earlier right this moment, Minaj filmed what gave the impression to be a gaggle of Dutch law enforcement officials arresting her and asking her to enter a police car so they may take her to the station.
Watch the footage beneath:
Nicki Minaj has been arrested in Amsterdam (of all locations) for “carrying medicine.”
Minaj instantly went on Instagram Reside 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 handle of the place she was… pic.twitter.com/3QwFockAnu
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 25, 2024
They inform her that they consider she is “carrying medicine”, which she instantly denies. Minaj repeatedly says that she is just not going wherever 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 might go “as quick as attainable”.
Minaj asks for the handle of the station they’ll, which they don’t give. The officers additionally clarify that they are going to attempt to assist her get to her present in Manchester tonight.
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 every thing they probably can to TRY to cease this tour,” she wrote in a single put up.
“They took my baggage & after I requested the place it’s they stated it’s on the airplane. It couldn’t have been, I simply pulled up,” learn one other.
Minaj went on to say she was anxious that they could “plant” one thing in certainly one of her baggage.
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 evaluation from NME‘s Nick Levine upon its launch.
Levine wrote: “‘Pink Friday 2’ seems like a consolidation and refinement of every thing 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 capability to catch us unexpectedly.”