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4 days agoKehlani Recruits Missy Elliott for New Song "Back and Forth"
Kehlani collaborates with Missy Elliott on the new song 'Back and Forth' from her self-titled album releasing on April 24.
Supportive comments generated by fake profiles were predominantly brief, repetitive, and low in semantic complexity, consisting largely of praising keywords and positive hashtags rather than original or substantive engagement. In general, Cyabra found a sustained and coordinated amplification of Minaj's political and cultural posts from November 11 to December 28, something which is rare for a musical artist on social media.
"I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old," she wrote in a 2018 Facebook post during the immigration crackdowns of the first Trump administration. Next to images of a juvenile detention center, she continued, "I can't imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror & panic these kids feel right now?"
Minaj also said she plans to pledge between $150,000 and $300,000 to support the new Trump Accounts. Created under Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the program provides savings accounts of $1,000 for every child born between 2025 and 2028. That money is then invested in the stock market by private firms, and made accessible to the child when they turn 18.
The Grammy Awards have been recognizing some of the most talented musicians of the year since 1959. It's often assumed that all of the legendary hit-makers have taken home a statuette or two - but there are actually quite a few iconic artists who seem to narrowly lose out year after year.
Any Christian who votes democrat again is a fool. They're showing people that it's ok to disrupt a church during worship. This is how they truly feel about you. The veil is lifted. No morals. No integrity. It's not enough for them to have an opinion, they've escalated to physical...- Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) February 2, 2026
MAGA rapper Nicki Minaj has accused cisgender female supermodel Chrissy Teigen of being transgender in retaliation for Teigen laughing at and giving a thumbs-up to comedian Trevor Noah's jokes about Minaj's love of President Donald Trump during Noah's gig hosting the recent Grammy Awards. In response to Minaj's attack on Teigen, numerous social media commenters reminded Minaj that her own husband is a registered sex offender.
Rap music has long been framed as a genre of excess: too loud, too violent, too vulgar. From its beginnings, it has been associated with anger, confrontation, and a form of hypermasculinity that leaves little room for alternative expressions. In France especially, rap has often been perceived as the voice of male youth from working-class neighborhoods, carrying narratives of struggle, rivalry, and domination.
She was talking with her guest about Minaj's embrace of the president and movement to the far-right, when Ingraham brought up an issue she has with Minaj's music. "Conservatives, including myself, were beyond disgusted by some of her lyrics in her songs over the years," Ingraham said. "W.A.P., I won't say what that stands for, but-" She then apparently was informed that "WAP" is not by Nicki Minaj.
So, some of you may or may not know that I was in the hospital very ill this fall with Urosepsis. It was not easy. It's been a very, very challenging four months. And I want everybody to know that I am on the road to a full recovery. I'm not there yet, but I'm on the road to that.