Spice, Macka Diamond Stand With Nicki Minaj After Rapper’s Vaccine Tweets
Trinidad-born rapper Nicki Minaj has been the center of discussion this week following false claims on Twitter about a COVID-19 vaccine causing her cousin’s friend’s testicles to swell.
Between the Trinidad And Tobago Health Minister shutting down her claims and the United States White House denying that she was invited to speak with representatives about the vaccine, the rapper isn’t keeping quiet and the Queen of Dancehall Spice and Dancehall artist Macka Diamond are behind her in full support.
My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2021
After Nicki’s highly publicized Tweets, the Trinidad And Tobago Health Minister Dr. Terrence Deyalsingh, responded. “As we stand now, there is absolutely no reported such side effect or adverse event of testicular swelling in Trinidad,” Deyalsingh said. “Unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim.”
The saga would take on new levels when her followers were presented with a series of tweets explaining why she would not be attending this year’s Met Gala.
“They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that loose one,” Nicki wrote in a Twitter share on September 13.
They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that loose one 🙏♥️
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2021
3 lies in a row from huge news platforms. I cited my young child as why I didn’t want to travel. But notice how NONE of them mentioned that? Ask yourself why that was. pic.twitter.com/vQjorbKCCO
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021
Then in another turn of events, Minaj would later reveal that she had been invited to the White House for a discussion about the vaccine. However, NBC News reported that a White House official confirmed that was never the case. “As we have with others, we offered a call with Nicki Minaj and one of our doctors to answer questions she has about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine,” the representative said.
The White House denial fired up Minaj, who diverted from Twitter to go on a 14-minute rant on Instagram – by then she claimed Twitter had banned her for spreading misinformation around COVID-19. “I’m in Twitter jail y’all. They didn’t like what I was saying over there on that block” she tweeted today September 16.
Twitter, however, denied they ever suspended Nicki’s account. “Twitter did not take any enforcement action on the account referenced,” a spokesperson for the company said in an e-mail to The LA Times.
In Minaj’s address to her 157 million IG followers earlier today, she went off on the people who have been calling her out about her comments regarding the vaccine, and about her invite to the White House.
“Do y’all think I would go on the Internet and lie about being invited to the f–king White House? Like what? Do you guys see what is happening right now?” she said in the clip.
Nicki claimed that her team got invited to the White House to speak with Dr. Anthony Fauci and Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy. According to Nicki, both her publicist Joseph ‘Joe’ Carozza from Republic Records and her new manager, who she confirmed is Wassim ‘Sal’ Slaiby, that also manages Dancehall starlet Shenseea, were on the call and can confirm the invitation.
Instead of traveling to the White House, however, the Anaconda rapper said she proposed doing an Instagram Live or other virtual platform for the discussion.
Later in her IG Live, Minaj claimed attempts were being made to tarnish her character.
“The first attack was from a black woman. This thing to assassinate me is from an Uncle Tomiana when 80 percent of the artists y’all are following right now feel like I feel the same way about the vaccine and are too afraid to speak on it. And guess what they are doing right now? If they assassinate me and my character and make me look crazy or stupid, guess what? No one else will ever ask questions again. Don’t you see what’s happening?” she said.
“Disgusting that a person can’t speak about questions or thoughts about something they have to put in their body. This hateful and purposeful…you see they have to get people who can just get on there and make women of color look f–king dumb, they can’t deal with smart women, whenever a smart woman challenges anything they get called a b-tch or crazy, pick one or pick both.”
Among those that tuned in to the Queen of Rap was her fellow monarch – the Queen of Dancehall, Spice. The Jamaican deejay agreed with Nicki completely and told her she was being attacked for not being afraid to speak up.
“Onika [Nicki’s real name] you are under attack because you’re “black and intelligent” Spice said. “When we are too educated we become a problem to society. May God watch over you and cover every step you take 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾,” she added in the comments.
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Another Dancehall supreme, Macka Diamond added her two cents.
“United we stand divided we fall,” Macka said. “Most black people still don’t get you are a strong minded black woman and you are blessed God is in control blessed love stay focus and prayed up @nickiminaj ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌.”
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