Nicki Minaj has caused a Twitter firestorm thanks to a snippet of her new single “Yikes” that features a bar that takes aim at late civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
In the video shared to Instagram on Monday (February 3), the Queen rapper previews new music from the studio with her hubby Kenneth Petty in tow. Behind dark aviator shades, Nicki spits the opening bars of the track, which seemingly likens Parks to, “all you bitches,” and pokes fun at the activist for her infamous refusal to give up her seat to a white man — which sparked the historic Birmingham bus boycott.
“Hella bands/Pull up stashed up/Super facts up/All you bitches Rosa Parks/Uh-oh, get your ass up,” she raps along.
The clip then transitions into the hook featured in the caption of the video, “Yikes/I play tag and you it for life/Yikes/You a clown you do it for likes.”
It didn’t take long for social media to catch wind of the lyric, and with Black History Month only a few days underway, many had something to say about the unreleased record.
Nicki recently made headlines for her inherent savageness as TMZ caught the rapper and her husband in a full-blown shouting match with her ex-boyfriend Meek Mill in an upscale boutique in West Hollywood.
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Claudette Coven is the real bus hero. Rosa Parks was just the publicity stunt
There’s room for two heroes. Parks played an integral role as did Colvin. But, everyone should give Colvin way more credit than she historically received.
Lmaooo none of them clowns did nothing but sat on a bus and now they the black community “heros”. That’s who y’all look up too haha smh saddest race on earth by far
What about Malcolm X having a squad of angry blacks ready to shoot it out or fight a bunch of you mayo sandwich, unseasoned food sister fucking, smelly klansman ass whites ???
What about it?! Just like the typical black he was got gunned down by his own “brother” blacks can’t win for nothing Lmaooo sad
Nicki is a sellout bum. I hope her albums flop. Maybe she tryna get that Trump kkk crowd now cause her career on life support
Career on life support? You gotta lie to yourself to make you feel better lmaooo now back to flipping burgers you bum you
She outter there, just trying to get clout for the single…Shit going to flop harder than that ass when she get 60!
While you waiting on her to hit 60 she’ll be counting your life saving laughing haha smh ouch son
This shit funny, imagine getting worked up over a Nicki lyric lmao. Dumb niggas out here saying she tryin to get an audience with racists and shit too, like do you know how fuckin stupid you sound?
2 things….Either this is proof that Nicki don’t write her shit, or you clearly keep disrespecting the black community. Neither is good but it’s 1 of the 2.
Bruh the black community disrespects themselves lmao look at their murdered rate against one another! Now is that what dusty ass Rosa parks woulda wanted?!? Thought so
She didn’t diss Rosa Parks, it was wordplay. All I see lately is articles about outrage from morons that are too stupid to use their brain and understand what context is. Don’t expect anything intelligent or cohesive from Twitter, it’s just a toilet for knee jerking PC liberals.
Shut up, you dumbass Republican snowflake. All you Republicans are worthless.
Just as well I’m not a Republican isn’t it then? You fucking mong.
I never see the African American community celebrate January 1st and I’m not talking new years. That is the one day to really parade in the streets and it falls so far short of that. Rosa Parks knew what she was doing, and not trying to make her an icon, but this lady deserve respect.
What exactly did Rosa parks do cuh?!? Go to your inner city and tell me what blacks are doing and I promise you those clowns mlk malcom and whoever else does and nobody cares. Rosa Parks was a “legend” to all blacks
So basically this is the heritage our grandfathers ,all theses previous generations of black people have been fighting for……theses bi…ches coming and insulting people who fought to set them free nowadays……all for the money and the fame????
Lol .. It’s not a diss .. it’s just a reference .. smh .. niggas get all offended over a simple rhyme .. why not get offended instead over niggas nowadays not standing for what MLK, Malcom or any civil rights leader stood for .. they sacrificed their lives so niggas would have enough equality so they can go to school and make something of themlseves, and all niggas do nowadays is skip school, sell drugs, and stay on welfare .. all us black people should be ashamed of ourselves ..
Preach! Blacks put the blame on everybody but all you gotta do is go look at their neighborhoods smh ouch
Facts!! Contradicting like a mutha
I’d raw dawg Nicki Minaj rns
This fat transvestite will do anything for attention, one of the many reasons why no man would ever willingly settle down with her with the exception of the murdering peadophile rapist she ended up marrying when she realised she had no other option. Her 15 minutes are almost up and she’s aware so expect more dumb shit like this as she desperately tries to cling on to her last days as a B-list celebrity.
Yaaawwwwnn you sound mad and bitter lmaooo talking about her 15 mins up, what?!? She been ON TOP for how long?! Hahaha Rosa parks musty behind ain’t do nothing for nobody. Stop it
If someone can tell me what mlk, malcom, Rosa accomplished I’ll give you a cookie. Blacks are by far the LEAST productive members of society and been blaming race for everything since the dinosaurs been here lmaooo oh and btw Rosa did all that dumb bs and hating whites but she was so damn broke she had to have a WHITE MAN pay her rent lmfaooo bruh y’all sad
Black ppl invented most of the shit everyday Americans used since the 1800s look it up n kill yourself after.
Yeah like Peanut Butter and stuff
Lmaoo blacks are at the bottom of everything cuh. You can’t even own stores in your own “hoods” haha sad
White Americans based their history off being condescending and hateful towards other races. So much that you’ve passed down this false narrative of you being superior in every way. The only black American history they teach you is slavery and civil rights. they control the media. our history. Shit they control our political views. Do you understand what trying to say?
lol. okay. You’ve been brainwashed. electricity, cars, planes, radio, digital music, telephone, glasses, AC, modern computers, TV, wifi, internet, whiteout, most to all home appliances.. all white people. shall I keep going?
Lmaooo tell that clown, please. Blacks still in Africa living in mud huts. Still got hope in “wakanda” lmao
i Think giving birth to modern humans is more than enough of an achievement would you not say? Without them you would not be here. Think about that. That’s just for starters
What are you talking about? Lmaoo your lost In a comment section smh take yo smacked ass back to bed before you make me mad
Hip Hop is like the NFL; shit done got soft. Nothing about that line is the least bit offensive. This social media is the fucking lamest.
Come on, yall supposed to be a hiphop blog! Yall cant figure out the word play and entendres? You all took a negative headline and ran with it for clicks and views. Let me break it down for you; you bitches Rosa Parks, uh oh get your ass up.
Rosa Park refused to get out of her seat during the segregation area.
Now, the first play on words is Rosa sitting but while sitting she was standing for something (equal rights). Nicki is saying yall bum bitches aint Rosa, get up because you sitting (ridiculing, gossiping etc) in the name of being woke. She is telling the “fake woke” crowd to stop acting woke and actually STAND for something. Hence the 2nd line “yall do IT for likes” clown shit.
2. “You bitches Rosa Parks, uh oh get your ass up” The second entendre can mean ” oh you sitting there thinking you doing something like you Rosa Parks, UH OH get your ass up. Again stand for something cause you ain’t Rosa.
A hiphop blog that cant look into the deeper meaning of word play, symbolism and entendres. You all are idiot’s. Hiphop has truly been sold to the highest bidder because you all said nothing when Cardi wished AIDS on a black man mother, bragged about robbing and drugging men, weaponizing homophobia but this is what gets yall gears to grinding.
I use to frequent this blog alot but the bias in the reporting, the lack of knowledge of hiphop and the praise of mediocre artist makes this blog a paid advertisement for entertainers who pay for their careers.
Stfu u extra reaching !!! Lmaaaao it Dosent sound like shit U said at all and sounds disrespectful. I also don’t think u know what an entendre is either. Lmaaaaaao those were horrible examples of it. If she meant how u said it she coulda said it so many other ways to make that clear. You sound dumb and like you trying to hard to make it what you wish for it to be.
U and ur social media ‘heroes’ are the one reaching. You really think she meant it the way you morons are thinking she did? lmao
And we wonder why as black ppl most of them are stupid and stupid, black ppl is the only race that bring down there own and make money for the white ppl while money while doing it, black ppl are so lost
It is disrespectful tho. she needed to be checked. Not like it happened 100 years ago.
Why rappers name drop, instead of just make good music on their own, if you gotta keep a name in ya mouth, you ain’t really got talent. A song that’s classic and ageless don’t name drop. And when I say name drop. I mean this chick, white boy who is famous for it. The game, all New York rappers. Gay-B, and all the corny sounding mfs.,
Wow. Can people really now understand what she is getting at? More Fake outrage.
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Only individuals with limited education, intelligence, understanding – or a penchant for stoking racist flames – take a subset of negative traits exhibited within a lost misguided few…then generalize an entire race of ppl as if the entire race is guilty of it.
All uv done is either exposed yourself as ither a racist…a self loathing person of color…or an absolute ignoramus.
Every race has there share of lost misfits…there’s even one running the country as we speak. So don’t act like white people are so perfect.
Yet there are multitudes of highly intelligent, law abiding, God-fearing, morally upright, successful Black Americans that have not only contributed to this country, but continue to do so.
Check out just about any prep school named after President Obama, and philanthropic groups like Jack and Jill, The Links, The Girl Friends, The Coalition of a Hundred Black Women. They raise money for scholarships, public relief efforts, mentoring, and health care, public welfare (the good kind), and a long list of others.
Yes, Nicki Minaj is lost, like many now a part of the hip hop and rap community…but there are still millions of us here that remember our forebears and every drop of blood, sweat, and tears shed for us.
WTF are you talking about? Did you reply to the wrong person?
Listen to this pretentious clown,,,
everyone who is offended by this does not understand hip hop. go back to your little troll dens and die, thank you
Tf does this have to do with hip hop nigga
Trying too hard her time is over.Stop straight Trash Give it up already..