After noticing that the “hottest female rapper” — better known as Nicki Minaj — put him in her song, “Trini Dem Girls,” Metta World Peace said on Twitter that he was adopting a new name.
“I changing my name for two days,” he wrote via the social media site. “The Nicki Minaj song inspired this;).”
Metta then proceeded to change his name to Metta Minaj.
He didn’t stop there. Later, he encouraged others to do the same and even joked about getting his new last name stitched onto his jersey and commentators addressing him as “Metta Minaj.”
“We need 2000 dudes to change their Twitter last names to Minaj. Ok, go,” he wrote on Twitter.
Metta caught the attention of the real Minaj, who retweeted him and posted a series of emojis after his comment.
The former NBA champion changed his name to Metta World Peace in 2011. He was formerly known as Ron Artest.
His tweets are as follows:
rap is now the gayest ting ever, now. :-/
This guy is straight up idiot with money!
Stupid!
this is why white people run this shit
No matter what this nigga calls himself, he’ll always be Ron Artest to me.
and you know only him from throwing fists at Detroit fans
Everyone knows this loser is a waste of sperm punching innocent fans, then elbowing muthafuckas after changing his name. QB stays losing.