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WhenPink Friday 2hit the shelves in the twilight of 2023, Nicki Minaj couldn’t have been happier. Her fifth studio album was going strong, amassing 228,000 units sold in its first week itself, ensuring that it debuted at No.1 on Billboard 200. It also made her the female rapper with Most No.1s on the chart. But time spares no one.

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2024 has not gone as Nicki Minaj would have wanted it to. TheSuper Basssinger’s Pink Friday 2 World Tour was expected to be a sensation. But right when she was in the European leg of the Tour, she seems to have been caught in a pickle, one which will be hard to break out of.

Nicki Minaj’s The Pink Friday 2 World Tour seems to have hit an unexpected snag

Beginning on 1st March, 2024 in Oakland, with her first Concert Tour performance in over five years, The Pink Friday 2 World Tour was all set to enthrall fans across three continents. The North American leg of the Tour went off without a hitch, with the likes of Drake and Tyga joining hands with her at times.

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Just when it was all going uphill, Minaj has stumbled across a boulder that could prove difficult to deal with – her (not yet officially confirmed) arrest in Amsterdam. And that too when she was Live on Instagram.

Nicki Minaj is“under arrest“

Nicki Minaj commenced her Tour in Europe with a concert in Amsterdam. She is now slated to perform in Manchester, England at Co-Op Live this Saturday and at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on June 2nd. But just when things were going to get busy, she has been ‘arrested’ in Amsterdam for allegedly carrying drugs.

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The revelation was made after videos of theBarbie Worldrapper being asked to board a police van went viral. Her Instagram Live video is being shared by fans online in huge numbers. After all, it is a disturbing video. The clip shows Minaj in conversation with a police official who soon informs her of the fact that she is under arrest for carrying drugs, something she explicitly denied a number of times in the video itself. That wasn’t the end though.

Nicki Minaj is not going down without a fight

As it turns out, theLast Time I Saw Yourapper’s luggage was checked after it had been loaded on the plane. That is when she was informed that all of it would have to be offloaded. In another (but related) video, she can be seen in a conversation with an official who instructs her to go inside the police van.

Nicki Minaj was just arrested in Amsterdam while live on Instagram.pic.twitter.com/jms0vDk70q

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In the video, Nicki Minaj can be seen emphatically denying that she was carrying drugs. The 41-year-old also raised the point that she wanted her lawyer there. Though there is no concrete word about what is happening out there, people can hear the police claiming that she is was“under arrest.”

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With a stacked calendar, this is the last thing she would have fathomed. And no one knows how the situation might unfold. Minaj seems to have stepped across a boulder that will be difficult to deal with. The only way ahead for her, seems to be ‘lawyering-up’.

Smriti Sneh

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Smriti Sneh is a Content Writer at Fandom Wire specializing in celebrities and everything pop-culture. Being a literature research scholar, she is cashing in on her writing skills by working in the entertainment news sector - studying literary theories by day, and navigating celebrity net worth through the night. Although you can find her writing poems at any and all hours.

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