More than a year later and Nicki Minaj is still seeing success and requests for her appearance due to the reach and impact of her third studio album, The Pinkprint. Spawning hits such as ‘Feeling Myself,’ ‘Anaconda,’ ‘Only’ and others, Nicki has proved with this era that she doesn’t need to rely on the notion of Pop music to still have major success in her career. Just this past weekend, the rapper found herself performing in the country of Angola, in Luanda, for their Christmas festival. The turmoil comes in as the Human Rights Foundation has went on record to speak on their distaste for the leadership of Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s dictatorship that drives the country, and therefore puts Nicki Minaj in the line of fire for serving as entertainment for a country ran by such a leader.
For 36 years dos Santos has exploited Angola’s vast natural resource wealth to build an enormous business empire, enriching his family and positioning them at the top of the country’s key industries. From there, they steal what they want from Africa’s second largest oil producer.
It’s quite possible that Minaj doesn’t know anything about Angola. But her management team is fully briefed. In some cases, performers like Minaj are manipulated by people willing to do anything for a bigger cut of the action. As of today, Bryant and Roberson have ignored HRF’s requests for comment.
Receiving an alleged payday of $2 million, who knows if Nicki was fully made aware of the type of leadership that inflicts the country and just who she was performing for. In what matters the most in the realm of music, fans of the rapper looked to have a great time as they crowded her hotel lobby, sidewalks, and so much more, as seen in the vlog, below, that documents the adventure. See for yourself and watch fans go crazy of Ms. Nicki Minaj.
