Nicki Minaj addressed fans outside her Manchester hotel after her gig in the city was axed following her arrest. The rapper and singer, 41, was detained at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Saturday and says she spent around six hours in custody before leaving the Netherlands for the UK. Advertisement Fans were let into the Co-op Live Arena for her show at around 7pm on Saturday, before the promoter Live Nation announced at around 9.
40pm that it would be postponed. In a message on social media site X, Minaj said she had arrived at her hotel in Manchester early on Sunday after spending “5-6 hours” in a cell and a delay to her flight from Amsterdam. View this post on Instagram Advertisement A post shared by Co-op Live (@thecooplive) Minaj invited her fans, known as Barbz, to her hotel in the centre of the city and according to videos on social media she then spoke to the crowds outside.
Advertisement Advertisement She told them: “I wanted to honestly tell you that I love you.” On X, she wrote the venue was “willing to go past 11pm”, and she pointed the finger at unidentified figures who she said had “succeeded at their plan to not let me get on that stage tonight”. She said a new date for the show would be announced on Sunday.
She wrote: “One July option & one June option is currently being discussed. “I’ll find a way to not only make up the date with the performance but I’m going to create an added bonus for everyone that had a (ticket) for this show. P.
