Nicki Minaj Apologizes to Fans for Postponing Amsterdam Concert After Her Arrest

Nicki Minaj issued an apology to her fans in Amsterdam.

After the rapper, 41, was released from police custody in the Netherlands hours after she filmed herself being arrested by Dutch officers for allegedly “carrying drugs”, Minaj met with fans outside her hotel in Manchester, England, to express her sadness that to cancel a performance that night as part of her Pink Friday 2 world tour.

“I love you and I’m so sorry this happened tonight,” Minaj said in a video shared by a fan on social media.

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Nicki Minaj outside her hotel in Manchester.

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Nicki Minaj was released hours after she filmed her arrest in Amsterdam for allegedly ‘carrying drugs’

IN post on Xex Twitter, Minaj reacted to her arrest and thanked “everyone who prayed for me today,” adding, “May God cover you and everything connected to you. May you be blessed beyond your imagination.”

The “Anaconda” singer then elaborated on the cancellation of her concert in Amsterdam, writing, “After sitting in a jail cell for 5-6 hours, my plane didn’t take off for 20 minutes after I got on board. The flight took 50 minutes.”

“That’s why they had to do a big song and dance b/c they knew I’d still find a way to perform even if it came down to my last 90 minutes in the building, which would last until 11:30 p.m.,” she continued. “The building was willing to work after 11 p.m. We are so grateful to them for that.”

“So they succeeded in their plan to not let me get on that stage tonight. I was able to @ get to the root of it all by filming them and posting it all in real time,” Minaj added. “I have so much video evidence. You wouldn’t believe it if I told you. I’ll tell the lawyers and GOD will take it from here.”

Nicki Minaj.

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The mother-of-one then asked her fans to “accept my deepest and most sincere apologies. They certainly knew exactly how to hurt me today, but this too shall pass.”

“They did this over and over and over and over and over and I tried so hard not to discuss it b/c you guys deserve to get nothing but good things. I hate to involve you in anything that isn’t just for entertainment purposes,” she stated Minaj.

The Grammy nominee then said, “I’m going to find a way to not only make up the date with a performance, but I’m going to create an added bonus for everyone who had a tkt for this show. I promise.”

She concluded her post by informing fans that her shows in Birmingham and Manchester are still going ahead as planned.

Nicki Minaj performs at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2023.

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Minaj originally recorded her arrest in an Instagram Live video posted on X by a fan account. In it, officers could be heard telling Minaj that she was “under arrest” for “carrying drugs”, before asking her to get into a van and go to the police station.

In another video posted on her Instagram, Minaj spoke on camera with a man in a suit, who told her the cops wanted to get her luggage again “because you filmed [the police officer]. .. He doesn’t believe that you don’t have more with you than you said.”

In a series of posts on X on May 25, Minaj wrote that the arrest was an attempt to “sabotage my tour.”

“They got paid a lot of money to try to sabotage my tour b/c so many people are mad that it’s so successful and can’t eat from me. They got caught stealing money from my trips/jets. They got fired. Got mad, etc,” she said. is.

A representative for Minaj did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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