Minaj is getting a lot of backlash after featuring Nazi-
like imagery in the lyric video for her latest single "Only ."
The Anti-Defamation League released a statement speaking
out against the video, in which the 31-year-old rapper plays
a military dictator leading an army of soldier wearing red
armbands. Read it below (via Billboard ):
"Nicki Minaj's new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich
propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s
exploitation of Nazi symbolism. The irony should be lost on
no one that this video debuted on the 76th anniversary of
Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" pogrom that
signaled the beginning of the Final Solution and the
Holocaust.
It is troubling that no one among Minaj's group of
producers, publicists and managers raised a red flag about
the use of such imagery before ushering the video into
public release.
This video is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a
trivialization of the history of that era. The abuse of Nazi
imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all
those who can recall the sacrifices Americans and many
others had to make as a result of Hitler's Nazi juggernaut."
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Nicki Minaj's lyric video for
"Only"?
Nicki Minaj - Only (Lyric) ft. Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Bro
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