Jay-Z is throwing digs at Nicki Minaj over her recent transformation into a MAGA warrior.
The legendary rapper, 56, returned to the stage Saturday for a rare solo show in Philadelphia at the Roots Picnic annual music festival. There, Jay-Z debuted new songs — some of which targeted former collaborators of his, including the “Anaconda” rapper herself.
Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, called out Minaj for cozying up to President Donald Trump and Republican figures like Erika Kirk in his lyrics. He also mentioned the rape allegations against her husband, Kenneth Petty, who was convicted of attempted rape in 1995 after assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
“That lady back on the stuff, she sound like she in love with him/ Her Ken can’t even pick they kids, enough of them,” he rapped.
“A rapper can’t be my opp, I got MAGA Republicans/ Them shots came from the very top of the government, good luck with them/ I’m governed by God, you tried to break the covenant.”
After performing those lines, Jay-Z brought out Minaj’s ex, Meek Mill, to perform “Dreams and Nightmares.”
In addition to Minaj, Jay-Z threw shade onstage at Ye, Drake, Tory Lanez and his Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Damon Dash.
Minaj, 43, has not publicly responded to Jay-Z’s barb. She did not return The Independent’s request for comment.
The “Barbie Dreams” rapper’s sudden outspoken support of Trump over the past year came as a shock to many of her fans.
She appeared alongside Trump at a U.S. Treasury event earlier this year, where the president said that Minaj has been “a big Trump supporter and a Trump fan” who has taken “a little heat on occasion” from her fans but has remained “an unbelievable supporter” nonetheless.
Minaj then took the stage and called herself Trump’s “number one fan” and vowed that her support for him was “not going to change.”
In an interview with Katie Miller, the wife of the architect of Trump’s immigration policies, Stephen Miller, Minaj explained in February that she threw her support behind Trump because she could not stand to see him “bullied.”
“When I saw how he was being treated over and over and over, I just couldn't handle it,” she said on The Katie Miller Podcast. “I felt that... a lot of that bullying, and the smear campaigns and all of the lying, I felt that that had been done to me for so many years.
