{"id":262324,"date":"2020-07-21T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262324"},"modified":"2020-07-21T02:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:43:27","slug":"rapper-nicki-minaj-confirms-shes-preggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/21\/rapper-nicki-minaj-confirms-shes-preggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Nicki Minaj confirms she&#8217;s &#8216;#Preggers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CC3ffwbDEM5\/<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Nicki Minaj were thrilled with the news she announced on Monday, July 20, and they just cannot wait for it to come out.<\/p>\n<p>We are not talking about her releasing a new song. It is about her finally being a mother \u2014 baby no. 1 is on the way!<\/p>\n<p>The soon-to-be-mommy posted a series of photos, flaunting her growing baby bump while rocking different outfits. In one of the photos where she was seen wearing a colorful bikini and towering high heels, Nicki simply said, &#8220;#Preggers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulatory messages from other renowned individuals in the music industry, such as Ne-Yo, Chance the Rapper, and Diplo, started pouring in on the comment section of Nicki&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Overflowing with excitement &amp; gratitude. Thank you all for the well wishes,&#8221; the 37-year-old rapper said in another post.<\/p>\n<p>Last October 2019, Nicki announced to public her marriage to Kenneth Petty, whom she revealed she was dating in 2018, as she shared a video clip showing baseball caps that read &#8220;bride&#8221; and &#8220;groom&#8221; and matching &#8220;Mr.&#8221; and &#8220;Mrs.&#8221; mugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty 10\u202221\u202219,&#8221; she wrote on the caption.<\/p>\n<p>In a June interview with &#8220;Young Money Radio with Lil Wayne,&#8221; a show on Apple Music, Nicki talked about her married life with Kenneth, saying she was not expecting it to be &#8220;as refreshing and calming as it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nicki, one of the most successful rappers in today&#8217;s world, is known for her hits &#8220;Super Bass,&#8221; &#8220;Starships,&#8221; and &#8220;Anaconda,&#8221; among many others. Nicki&#8217;s collaboration with 6ix9ine, &#8220;Trollz.&#8221; reached No. 1 in the <em>Billboard Hot 100<\/em> songs last month, her second chart-topper after Doja Cat&#8217;s &#8220;Say So (Remix).&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hot100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hot100<\/a> top 10 (chart dated June 27, 2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O7ZYW9AX7O\">pic.twitter.com\/O7ZYW9AX7O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Billboard Charts (@billboardcharts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardcharts\/status\/1275121871357427717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations Barbz, y\u2019all did this with no playlisting and no radio, and it\u2019s just not happening in 2020,&#8221; Nicki said in a video message, thanking her fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the records on the top of the chart right now are doing that with heavy playlisting and heavy radio. So, for us to do that, debuting, that\u2019s insane. I love you guys so much. We just did the highest pure sales of the year, of every song released, and you can\u2019t buy that. That\u2019s fan love,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1275141403262083072<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CC3ffwbDEM5\/ Fans of Nicki Minaj were thrilled with the news she announced on Monday, July 20, and they just cannot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":262330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262347,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262324\/revisions\/262347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}