If Minaj had filmed her scenes in a separate location, never to be seen in the same shot as 6ix9ine, maybe I would’ve felt differently. As a fan, I want to make sure I’m giving Minaj the benefit of the doubt This is the same woman who has worked with Jay and Bey, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, and even Madonna-she does not need 6ix9ine. I also found myself shocked and confused about why she’d even agree to this collaboration. By working with 6ix9ine, Minaj is endorsing who he is and what he has done, and that alone is not okay. Most recently, he was arrested for choking a 16-year-old at the Houston Galleria Mall in Texas. In 2015, 6ix9ine plead guilty to three counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child (he made a video of himself simulating sex and spanking a 13-year-old, who was nude and performing oral sex on another man at the time). Minaj has been making headlines for featuring on a song called “Fefe” by 6ix9ine, a 22-year-old rapper with a terrible name and an even worse track record.

By the time I went to bed that night, I was a diehard Nicki Minaj fan.įast forward to 2018. As someone who has always related to women more than men, witnessing a female rapper exude the same skill and confidence as her male counterparts made the genre so much more accessible to me. Hearing a female rapper for the first time was a major turning point for me. I started bopping to the beat, but when Minaj’s verse came on, I watched in awe as all the girls around me started rapping along. Someone in my class was playing Young Money’s “ Bed Rock” from their new iPod Touch. (Photo: first time I heard Nicki Minaj, I was in middle school.

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