Late civil rights activist Rosa Parks would’ve turned 107 on Tuesday (February 4).
On the eve of her birthday, Nicki Minaj shared a snippet of her next single “Yikes,” which contains the line, “All you bitches Rosa Parks/Uh oh, get your ass up.”
While some people thought the line was funny, others felt it was disrespectful. One of those people is William McCauley, Parks’ nephew, who told TMZ, “It was both heart breaking and disrespectful that Nicki Minaj would have a lyric in a song that can be used negatively when mentioning someone who provided her the freedoms that she has today.”
On Wednesday (February 5), TMZ ran a story claiming Nicki said it “wasn’t a slight at all” and chalked it up to “bad timing.”
However, Black Barbie begs to differ. Shortly after the story broke, the multi-platinum-selling artist headed to her Instagram Stories to set the record straight.
“Never said this,” she wrote. “Had no clue anyone was mad. Don’t care. #Yikes”
She included TMZ’s headline, “NICKI MINAJ ALLEGEDLY SAYS ROSA PARKS LYRIC WAS ‘BAD TIMING;’ NOT MEANT TO OFFEND OR DISRESPECT PARKS.”
“Yikes” is expected to arrive at midnight on Friday (February 7). Until then, check out the snippet above.
Awww we went back to our name and not Mrs. Petty ???????? Wonder why…..
Damn she won’t give in to the fact her careers done
lol we want everybody to respect our culture but we steady dissing ourselves smh
U think she is dissing rosa parks? lmao.
You know they about to put new crap out when they start making controversial claims and desperately resurrecting ole beefs to get any attention. This is marketing kindergarten ABC stuff folks, nothing to see or report here, just another attempt to promote some bad music.
they deleted my comment. yes i said she a r a p i s t defender
Who did she defend?
There’s so many humble and cool females in the game right now like Rapsody, Tierra Whack, Mereba. I think because of that people are starting to see Nicki’s just a dickhead. When she came in the game, being loud and obnoxious was confused for being a strong female.
She’ll be the same one to play the victim card when nobody’s fucking with her wack ass music though
industry should black ball her let’s see if she cares when her pockets get hit