Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, is set to be released from house arrest soon. Nevertheless, there are ongoing developments in his sexual assault case. The woman suing Petty attempted to amend her lawsuit to include a claim of attempted rape, which was denied. However, she has been granted permission to add other related claims. Inside […]
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Earlier this year one of the more interesting beefs sprung up. Offset and Kenneth Petty found themselves embroiled in some pretty heated beef. What made it so interesting is less about the men themselves and more about their wives. Given that the two are married to Cardi B and Nicki Minaj respectively, there was plenty of intrigue. Many fans viewed the feud as a proxy beef between Nicki and Cardi, who have had their own issues with each other in the past. Eventually, things got so heated that Petty was put back under house arrest for threatening the former Migos rapper publicly.
Now with his new album just a few days away, Offset addressed the issue. In an interview with The Breakfast Club, he explained why he felt like taking the high road and not engaging with the beef directly was the right idea. “N*ggas want you to be tough, then when you crash out they call you stupid,” he explains. In the comments, fans are divided. Many Nicki Minaj die-hards pop up to claim that even bringing up the beef again in the first place is just an attempt to help sell copies of his album later this week. Others pointed out that he was simply trying to handle the matter privately, while Petty was the one who continued to bring it up online. Check out the interview clip below.
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Offset is in full-on album mode. His new project Set It Off is set to drop later this week. It will be his first new solo project since 2019’s Father Of 4. Earlier this week he shared the tracklist for the album which revealed some impressive features. Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Future, Cardi B, Mango Foo, Latto, Young Nudy, and Chloe, are all set to appear.
One name who isn’t appearing on the album is Playboi Carti. That came as a surprise to fans after the pair previewed new music together earlier this year. Offset didn’t offer an official explanation, but he did like a tweet alleging that Carti probably didn’t clear his verse for release. What do you think of Offset’s explanation for how he handled his beef with Kenneth Petty? Let us know in the comment section below.
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With the hostilities between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj — and their husbands, Offset and Kenneth Petty — heating up again after a few years on simmer, you may be wondering how all this got started in the first place. Don’t worry; Uproxx has you covered. Here’s a timeline of just how the feud between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B got started and what’s happened since then. While there’s been plenty of speculation about who said what about whom, we’ll just stick with the facts.
In our original timeline of the Nicki/Cardi feud, we noted that everything likely starts with Cardi’s “Bodak Yellow” release. The ensuing fan and media frenzy surrounding it led to the song becoming the first by a solo female rap artist to reach No. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” — a goal Nicki had pursued and fallen short of for nearly a decade prior.
However, the song was still several weeks away from its peak when Nicki Minaj’s fans, known as Barbz, began throwing shade at Cardi. At the time, it had been nearly three years since Nicki had last released an album. Perhaps the Barbz perceived a threat to Nicki’s dominance or simply wanted to see a fight, but either way, they got one — ironically, as a result of the two women’s attempted show of solidarity.
In October 2017, Migos added Cardi B to their Culture II single, “Motorsport.” This turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. After the song’s video was released in November, news of behind-the-scenes drama between the two began to trickle out. Nicki and Cardi’s scenes were shot separately, leading to more speculation of tension between them, and after it was revealed that Migos added Cardi without consulting Nicki and that Nicki’s verse was allegedly changed at the request of Cardi’s label, Atlantic, there was no stopping the oncoming train wreck.
In April 2018, Nicki began openly throwing Cardi under the bus in interviews while promoting her 2018 album Queen, which was due just a few months after Cardi’s debut Invasion Of Privacy. Invasion turned out to be a coronation, Cardi’s victory lap solidifying her as a breakout star. In interviews, Nicki called out Cardi for being “ungrateful” and for not backing up her explanation for their separate shoot days, which involved a scheduling conflict with her hairstylist.
In September 2018, things erupted, as their meeting at a New York Fashion Week party that year led to a physical altercation in which Cardi threw a show at Nicki, getting a bump on the forehead from one of the older rapper’s bodyguards in return. Since then, they’ve returned to less open hostilities, settling into a cold war, complete with proxy fighters and accusations of sneak disses flying from fans on both sides.
Since then, the closest either side has come to outright beef has been in the wake of Nicki’s 2022 “Super Freaky Girl (Queen Mix),” which featured rappers Akbar V, BIA, JT, Katie Got Bandz, and Maliibu Miitch. In the weeks after its release, Akbar V and JT both lashed out at Cardi — ostensibly at the behest of Nicki Minaj, if you were to ask fans what prompted the exchanges.
Eventually, both feuds petered out though, returning to status quo until the 2023 MTV VMAs — the first time they’d both appeared at such a function since their NYFW fight. Now, details of the inciting event are murky, but it appears that some sort of exchange between the two rappers’ crews backstage took place that led to Cardi apparently being threatened but later boasting on Twitter that “I ain’t even flinch.”
Then, the next weekend, Nicki’s husband, Kenneth Petty, posted a video with his crew roaming New York, apparently looking for Offset. While Offset laughed off their threats, a judge apparently did not, slapping Petty with a probation violation (he is serving a suspended sentence for failing to register as a sex offender in California) and sentencing him to house arrest.
In the aftermath, Nicki seemed not to sweat the sentence, sharing a song snippet from her upcoming album Pink Friday 2 that references her husband’s “G” status and having shooters.
The key to all this might just be in that last bit, though; beef sells — supposedly — and with both rappers gearing up to release new full-length projects, don’t be surprised if this list gets longer in the near future.
Nicki Minaj loves her son Papa Bear, but it seems like he isn’t as willing to pose for cute pictures with his mom as she is. Moreover, the Queen recently shared a wholesome video of her carrying him on a swivel chair and lightly swaying him around. Amid laughs and Papa’s excited yells, you can tell that he just wants to get his feet on the ground as soon as possible. “Telling #PapaBear we on a magic roller coaster,” she captioned the video. “But he figured it out right away & got up out of there [crying-laughing emoji]. He said he got more important things to do than to take pics with some random lady.”
Furthermore, it seems like the Trinidadian rapper is feeling quite family-focused these days. Just about a week ago, Nicki Minaj shared a family picture with Papa Bear and father and husband Kenneth Petty. Of course, this family orientation might be because of a big scandal that Petty got into recently. He threatened Offset online, staking him out at the VMAs and getting a house arrest order because of it.
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Since then, it’s been a whirlwind of shady statements, backlash, feuds with media figures, and more. Still, through it all, the 40-year-old remains set on promoting herself, particularly her Queen Radio program, and letting it all roll past her. Amid a supposed still-brewing cold war with Cardi B that the Offset and Kenneth Petty situation accentuated, all this creates is just more attention, clicks, and conversation. Nicki Minaj knows exactly how to capitalize on that, but she also knows how to take a break from it. After all, there’s nothing like some family time to clear your head of all the noise.
Meanwhile, we’re sure that there will be many more cute videos of the “Last Time I Saw You” hitmaker spending quality time with Papa Bear. Barb could coast off of her success if she wanted to and just live a happy, exciting life with her family. But that’s not how Roman operates, as we all know, and she’s balancing all these elements of competition, stardom, and family love with the same hunger for greatness she’s always had. With that in mind, stay up to date on HNHH for the latest news and updates on Nicki Minaj.
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DJ Akademiks has beefed with Nicki Minaj for many years now. However, that beef rarely reached more extreme heights than it did in 2019. VladTV recently reshared a clip from a 2022 interview with Akademiks in which the pair discussed threatening DMs Minaj had sent to Akademiks. Amid the myriad threats Minaj leveled at him, one message included the threat that Kenneth Petty would be coming to break Akademiks’ jaw. Minaj also appeared to threaten the DJ’s family. While Vlad called Minaj “cowardly”, Akademiks referred to Minaj as a “gangsta bully”.
However, these threats and the weaponization of Petty take on a whole new light four years after they were originally made. Petty is now a sex offender. Furthermore, he was recently sentenced to 120 days of house arrest after making threats against Offset. Furthermore, the recent behavior of Minaj and Petty appears to suggest that this is a core function of their marriage. They violently threaten people they don’t like, with Petty serving as their enforcer.
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In the same interview, Akademiks also spoke on the fanatical nature of Minaj’s fanbase, colloquially known as the Barbz or the Barbz Army. “You know why Nicki’s good? I wanna say great…her audience, and she has the best audience in Hip Hop. Them Barbz, they will never believe anything—and Nicki does a good job of not making it apparent. You ‘heard’ it, you didn’t ‘see’ it. So, like, when you say it, her audience is gonna take it as, ‘Oh, you’re just hating on Nicki’,” Akademiks noted.
He continued. “[Minaj’s] fanbase is so solid…if she’s not the victim, no one believes it.” Vlad attempted to draw a comparison to the diehard fans of Michael Jackson, who refuse to believe claims about Jackson’s children or alleged crimes against children. However, Akademiks rejected the comparison, arguing that a bigger proportion of MJ fans were more willing to acknowledge his faults.
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Turns out that everyone’s chiming in on the Kenneth Petty and Offset situation, which escalated into a firestorm. For example, apparently Nicki Minaj and her husband targeted Jason Lee, according to new claims the Hollywood Unlocked founder made. While that doesn’t have much to do with Petty’s beef with the rapper, it’s hard to take either without the context of the other. Moreover, Nick Cannon became the most recent celebrity to speak on this incident, and it wasn’t very forgiving. Still, it’s just a lot of gossip and Internet drama at this point, since it didn’t go beyond just a few videos of him and his friends staking ‘Set out.
“He is tarnishing the brand,” Nick Cannon began his remarks. “You’re standing on the corner of the block outside of the VMAs. If you a street dude, be a street dude. Don’t be on the Internet! Street dudes didn’t even get on the phone. Real gangsters move in silence! He got a bunch of other cats around him. ‘Yeah, we outside.’ We know, n***a! I’m all for keeping it street, but keep it street smart. You on punishment, no TV for you for 120 days.“
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Furthermore, Nick Cannon wasn’t the only celebrity to speak specifically on Kenneth Petty’s street persona. Charlamagne Tha God also offered a similar view on The Breakfast Club. “Number one, you should’ve been let go of all the childish ways of the street, first and foremost,” he started off. “That’s number one. But number two, I remember a time where folks wouldn’t talk about any dirt over the phone. Now y’all recording yourselves in 4K and posting it online? I know law enforcement be having a ball looking at these n***as.”
Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj still stands by her husband through it all, and even insinuated that Cardi B had something to do with this. At least, that’s what fans think. In any case, it’s clear that many agree with the father of 12’s assessment of the situation. We’ll see if there’s anything more to this story in the near future. With that in mind, log back into HNHH for the latest news and updates on Nick Cannon and Kenneth Petty.
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Nicki Minaj recently took to social media, sharing a lengthy post detailing her swatting experience. The rap diva also shared what appears to be a photo of the person allegedly behind the swatting, alongside a phone call made to police about Nicki and her husband, Kenneth Petty. In the call, the person is heard telling authorities that a man is firing off shots while holding a child, and a woman is trying to get the man to put the child down. This presumably refers to Nicki, Petty, and their 2-year-old son.
The swatter also suggests that the man could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and that he might be trying to leave with the child. Nicki went off in her post, detailing the terrifying experience of having her home swatted. “2 times my home was surrounded by large guns. This person wanted a family with a 2 year old to be shot at. Yet, nothing on any blog,” she wrote. “This same person made a false claim to CPS.”
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Nicki continued, seemingly suggesting that someone in the industry could be behind the whole thing. She then pointed out that her haters haven’t managed to drag her down, noting the success of her new single. “When you have snitches in high places of the music industry who don’t want you to win but realize they can’t stop you because God’s anointing in my life is very real,” she explains. She went on to hype up her new album Pink Friday 2, which is slated for release in November.
Some are speculating that the “snitch” she’s referring to could be Cardi B, as they’ve clashed in the past. Their fanbases have been at war for years now, and lately, so have their husbands. Petty even landed himself on house arrest recently after making some threats against Offset. Cardi also just dropped off her new single “Bongos,” which Nicki might be equating to a “flop.” What do you think of Nicki’s latest Instagram post? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates on Nicki Minaj.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kenneth Petty navigated the complexities of urban life to become a rather enigmatic figure. He caught the public’s eye mostly due to his relationship with superstar Nicki Minaj, but his narrative has nuances deserving of attention. Petty’s early years remain shrouded in mystery, keeping the world simultaneously curious and cautious. Though his past is laced with legal tangles and controversy, these very elements arguably add layers to his persona. As of 2023, CAknowledge estimates Petty’s net worth to be $1 million.
Petty is an elusive name in the entertainment industry. While not an artist or an entertainer in the conventional sense, his presence is undeniably felt through his significant other, Nicki Minaj. Petty’s claim to professional fame? More of an aura than a resume, which has, in turn, become its own form of social currency. Petty keeps his life under lock and key for good measure, as the world has focused on his marriage to Minaj and dissecting their pasts.
Kenneth Petty’s personal life is a complex tableau, worthy of a legal thriller. In 1995, he was convicted of first-degree attempted rape, earning him a spot on New York’s sex offender registry. The legal shadows continued to chase him into adulthood. In 2006, he served seven years for first-degree manslaughter. These legal challenges aren’t mere footnotes. They’ve been instrumental in shaping public perception of him, sometimes overshadowing his other life events.
His marriage to the international rap queen Nicki Minaj in 2019 brought him into the limelight for reasons other than his checkered legal history. While he relishes his role as a husband and father—the couple welcomed their first child in 2020—the ever-present legal quagmire haunts him. Even as he attempts to navigate domesticity and the intense scrutiny of public life, Petty continues to juggle court appearances and legal obligations.
What’s clear about Kenneth Petty is that he isn’t easily defined. Whether scrutinized or celebrated, he elicits a response from the public. He’s found a way to thrive in the backdrop of fame, not as an accessory to Minaj, but as a figure compelling enough to warrant his own dialogue. And in this enigmatic journey, he has accrued a net worth that speaks to his multi-dimensional life.
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Nicki Minaj took to Instagram to announce a new edition of her Queen Radio series. She made the announcement with a video she recorded of herself and husband Kenneth Petty. She’s rocking a no-makeup look and lip-syncing to some music with the actual announcement coming in the caption. “#QueenRADIO in NEW YORK tmrw @ 4pm est 
WHO POPPIN OUT?!?!!!!! #HeavyOnIt” it reads.
Kenneth Petty appearing in the video is likely no coincidence. He’s had an ongoing beef with Offset that many fans have viewed as a proxy beef between Nicki and Cardi themselves. After Petty made public threats against Offset, he was re-sentenced to house arrest. Nicki Minaj reacted to the announcement with a cryptic tweet, while Cardi B took a much more direct approach in her response. “EXACTLY KEEP ME AND MY MANS OUT YALL F*CKING MOUTH!!!” the “I Like It” singer said in a new tweet. Check out Nicki’s Queen Radio announcement video and the fan reaction to it below.
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Recently Nicki Minaj took on double duty at the MTV Video Music Awards. For the second year in a row she played the role of both host and performer. This time she was solely responsible for hosting duties which made for plenty of memorable moments. She also took the stage for a performance of her newest single paying tribute to rap music for the genre’s 50th anniversary.
Later this year, Nicki Minaj is expected to treat fans to her first new album in 5 years. Pink Friday 2, a sequel to her 2010 classic will be her first new album since 2018’s Queen. She’s already teased the project with a few new single, most recently the heartfelt “Last Time I Saw You.” Subsequently, Nicki took to Instagram to share the project’s eventual album cover with fans. What do you think of Nicki Minaj including Kenneth Petty in her Queen Radio announcement video? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Recently, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj have been involved in a sort of proxy beef. The pair did have their moment all the way back in 2018 when they beefed directly spawning from their collaboration on the Migos song “MotorSport.” Since then they haven’t engaged each other directly very much. That hasn’t stopped fans from continuing to compare the two artist’s success to each other. But earlier this month they got about as close as they ever have to re-starting the beef.
That came when their husbands, Offset and Kenneth Petty respectively, started off a beef of their own. Cardi and Nicki haven’t said much directly, merely standing behind their men. But the boys have taken much more direct shots at each other, with something Petty said even reaching the point of threatening Offset. As a result, a house arrest sentence he was recently released from was reinstated as the threat violated the terms of his release. That spawned new responses from just about everyone involved, including Cardi.
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“EXACTLY KEEP ME AND MY MANS OUT YALL F*CKING MOUTH!!!” Cardi B said in a new tweet responding to the situation. In the comments of a repost of the tweet fans mostly took Cardi’s side. “Yea like what cardi look like calling his p.o or offset he did this on the World Wide Web,” one of the top comment reads. “This situation making me realize y’all really have some weird hatred towards Cardi B. Like damn she popping that bad she have so many haters,” another agrees.
Elsewhere in the comments, fans discuss why the beef between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj even exists. “you would think after 5 years everybody would move on,” another one of the top comments reads. Cardi’s newest single “Bongos” with Megan Thee Stallion just debuted in the top 15 on the Hot 100. Nicki Minaj’s new album Pink Friday 2 is expected later this year. What do you think of Cardi B’s response to Kenneth Petty’s reinstated house arrest? Let us know in the comment section below.
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