Nicki Minaj and her ex-boyfriend, the rapper and Love & Hip-Hop star Safaree Samuels, engaged in a vicious Twitter battle immediately, with every making claims about occasions that befell throughout their relationship. (Nicki and Safaree dated for 12 years, and broke up in 2014.)
Among the numerous accusations, Safaree claimed that at one level, he wanted to be hospitalized after Nicki “cut” him and he “almost died.” “I had to lie and tell them I was trying to kill myself so they wouldn’t take you to jail,” he wrote. “When things like that start happening more than once it’s time to dip.”
Nicki responded by accusing Safaree of mendacity, and likewise of stealing her bank card.
On her 2014 track “Bed of Lies,” from the album The Pinkprint, Nicki rapped, “I could tell you lying, get the fuck out, don’t yell at me/I ain’t mean to cut you, I ain’t wanna catch a felony.” It’s unclear if these lyrics are about the identical scenario that Safaree described within the tweet. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Nicki for extra info.
Safaree sued Nicki again in May 2016, alleging bodily and emotional abuse. He dropped the lawsuit in October 2016, citing a change of coronary heart. The two have additionally beforehand fought publicly over whether or not or not Safaree ghost-wrote a few of Nicki’s lyrics; in a tweet from today, he wrote, “How many times have I said I never wrote ur raps? Nobody even talks about that anymore.”
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