How can Nicki Minaj owe people money?

Can she read?

If there was a special tax paid by girls with gross tank asses to compensate people who are forced to see them in public, for an amount that compounds if they have the utter temerity to appear in public with no pants on, I could see how Nicki Minaj might owe people money. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.

Has it been that long since “Starships” was out, or any other Nicki Minaj song that anyone ever heard of? Yeah, I guess it has been. But those songs were huge, not just pretend popular, like Clipse. You’d hear them on white radio stations that don’t play a lot of rap music otherwise. You’d think she’d still be making money from them.

And yet, she’s been on X f/k/a Twitter bitching and moaning about how Jay-Z owes her $200 million, interrupting time I could have spent asking the newly based Grok questions about things I’ve been wondering about for years. Suffice it to say that I’ve learned a lot this week.

Word on the street is that a lien has been placed on Nicki Minaj’s publishing due to money she owes in back taxes, and to promoters for concerts she didn’t show up to—or maybe she did show up, but nobody was there, because this is 2025, not 2012. So it could be that people are still streaming her music, or it’s being streamed by bots run by especially dedicated, aging teh ghey guys, she’s just not making any money from it.

Typically, liens are placed on homes occupied by the ne’er-do-well offspring of the people who bought them in the first place, who don’t pay the bill for garbage pickup, which, in their defense, should be free anyway. Half the people in the town where I live don’t pay for garbage pickup. As a result, the bill costs money out the ass. They jack up the amount to cover for people who don’t pay. Arguably, placing liens on the homes of people who don’t pay their bills is culturally biased. Ta-Nehisi Coates might consider writing an article about this, if he ever returns to journalism.

This wouldn’t be an issue if Nicki Minaj had the $200 million she claims Jay-Z owes her. When Jay launched Tidal, years ago, she was one of the artists who were granted an equity stake. Supposedly, she never signed the contract, and as a result, she only received $1 million when it sold to Jack Dorsey for $300 million.

How in the world she was supposed to receive $200 million, when the entire app only sold for $300 million is beyond me. Also, why was she given $1 million, if she didn’t sign the paperwork? If I wasn’t obligated to, I wouldn’t have given her a damn thing.

Tidal probably never made any money, and Jack Dorsey probably only paid $300 million for it because he was trying to enlist Jay-Z in some scheme to trick black people into investing in crypto. I remember there was a class where they taught people in the Marcy Projects about crypto. I wonder if they had a way to invest the money on an EBT card. Dorsey has a company that specializes in payments, so he may have come up with a technological solution.

Supposedly, the amount Minaj owes the IRS and concert promoters is comparable to the amount she claims she’s owed by Jay-Z. In fact, that might be how she came up with that amount. I’d suggest she try to make money by releasing an album and going on tour to promote it, but there’s probably just not a sufficient amount of interest in her music at this point. Also, she’s well into her 40s, so I can only imagine what her body looks like.

If there’s one good thing about her going broke, it’s that she might be forced to move to a neighborhood where the houses are closer together. As a convicted sex offender, her husband is required to go door to door and inform their neighbors, like Jesus in the Big Lebowski. He tends to wear a lot of velour sweatsuits, and I bet they get all gross and sweaty during the summer. This way, at least he won’t have as far to walk.