In a saga that reads less like a breaking news report and more like a Hollywood blockbuster screenplay, Nicki Minaj has managed to make everything even messier by co-signing a conspiracy theory launched against arguably one of the most influential figures in music history. The allegations come from inside the Roc Nation house.
But it all began when Minaj reposted a livestream with the estranged daughter of Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez, Demoree Hadley, and political commentator Xavier DuRousseau. The clip was weighty; the energy was tight, and the allegations… yeah, explosive.
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Hadley, who is embroiled in a legal dispute with her mother today, pulled no punches. She made Perez Hilton sound terrible, as Perez says Nicki makes him look bad. According to Hadley, Roc Nation has been flexing its industry muscles to manipulate the narrative, smear people, and, in her words, “abuse freedom of speech.”
“They’ve abused her freedom of speech, they’ve abused her family, they’ve attacked her husband, they’ve attacked her child,” Hadley said in the livestream. “It ought to send a chill up the spine of the American people.”
Hadley has been there. It was involuntarily committed to a mental health facility in Florida both under the Baker and the Marchman Acts early this year. She says her mother was behind the whole thing and even manufactured domestic violence charges against her husband. A Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office memo later confirmed no corroboration for Perez’s allegations.
While it may have the scruff of a messy family brawl, Nicki Minaj’s decision to support Hadley’s claims brought serious weight and visibility to the dispute.
On June 19, Minaj took to Twitter with a series of cryptic, fiery tweets. She deployed hashtags like #PaidMoles and dropped phrases like “Order in the court” that insinuated legal shenanigans and deeper and darker backroom conspiracies. She even referred to the way Perez allegedly dealt with her own daughter as evidence of how far Roc Nation would go.
This isn’t Minaj’s first tussle with Roc Nation. Tensions have been bubbling for a while, especially when it comes to Megan Thee Stallion, one of the label’s biggest stars, and now, with Kendrick Lamar getting the Super Bowl halftime show over Lil Wayne (in Wayne’s New Orleans, mind you), the beef is only getting deeper.
Minaj also implied that social media platforms are in on it, stating that Twitter took down liked posts to silence her message, which is a little bit more than just industry politics: surveillance and digital censorship.
Whether these claims will hold up in court is one thing. But in the court of public opinion? The jury is very much in. Nicki’s endorsement has made this more than a family matter. Now, it’s a discussion about power, control, and the invisible forces that determine how music is produced and distributed from the top down.
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