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Nicki Minaj Called Out For Using Nazi Imagery In ‘Only’ Lyric Video

Posted on November 11th, 2014
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Without question, Nicki Minaj is having a whirlwind year. With The Pinkprint just a few weeks away from officially being released, the rapstress is coming under fire for one of her record’s lyric video. The Anti Defamation League has accused Nicki of using Nazi imagery in her Jeffrey Osborne-directed “Only.”

Alongside Drake, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, the ADL is claiming Minaj used insensitive imagery despite their not being a swastika present in the video. “Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism,” Abraham H. Foxman, director of AL and a Holocaust survivor, said. “The irony should be lost on no one that this video debuted on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” pogrom of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.”

No one from Nicki’s camp or the rapper herself has made a statement regarding the allegations nor has any of her collaborators including Drizzy who is half-Jewish. Weigh in with your opinions with the video below.

Update: Nicki Minaj took to her Twitter to assume full responsibility if her visuals offended anyone but denies it being intentional. “I didn’t come up w/the concept, but I’m very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I’d never condone Nazism in my art.”

Read her Twitter apology on the following page.

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5 responses to “Nicki Minaj Called Out For Using Nazi Imagery In ‘Only’ Lyric Video”

  1. GoldenChild89 says:

    She knows exactly what she was doing with this, its common knowledge when there’s a new single she must (and I stressed this) MUST generate some sort of buzz even if its offensive.

    • James Godin says:

      ya cause having the 2 biggest rappers as features isnt enough… coon.

      • stephanie says:

        we can play games so the is your my friend…did your,,,,, so nick is good so the we come on like you;; eat food can you talks hot food big girl…….do you no how to play call girl forever chris brown so can you see come on boy talk ok
        you can talk at lunch November 27 nice fall is coming today can you see you s.o.s

    • stephanie says:

      omg can you see you text me
      you funny can you to……. did you talk we can you
      red is my black