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Nicki Minaj has been pressured to reschedule a live performance on her Pink Friday 2 World Tour after feeling unwell.
“As a result of physician’s orders, Nicki Minaj should reschedule her NOLA present tonight,” New Orleans’ Smoothie King Middle introduced through Instagram on Monday, March 18. “As Nicki remains to be sick, our group doesn’t need to run the chance of getting others sick, and Nicki wouldn’t be capable to give NOLA the present they deserve.”
The assertion continued, “We’re working diligently to discover a new date, so please maintain onto your tickets, and we’ll inform you all quickly.”
Within the days main as much as her efficiency, Minaj, 41, dropped hints that she wasn’t feeling her finest. Over the weekend, the performer stated she was experiencing signs of COVID-19.
“Barbz pls ship me therapeutic power,” she wrote through X on March 16. “Awakened feeling like I had Covid. Thank God I don’t. You guys are simply all the pieces. I respect you. I like you a lot.”
Minaj continued, “Happening Station Head in a couple of minutes. Barbz pls inform everybody. …and my voice might be going to sound a lil diff.”
However whereas headlining the Rolling Loud pageant in Los Angeles on March 15, Minaj obtained optimistic receptions from hundreds of concertgoers.
“🙏🏽 and the love & appreciation they confirmed to the barbz,” she wrote on X after the present. “Thanks, @RollingLoud & to each single barb that gave me probably the most superb power that mentally pushed me via my present. CALI!!!!!!!”
The Pink Friday 2 World Tour — that includes particular visitor Monica — kicked off on March 1 in Oakland, California and can make stops all through america and Europe earlier than concluding on June 7 in Berlin.
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Earlier than her first present, Minaj gave followers a tease of what they will count on once they see her carry out reside.
“I’ve achieved three world excursions by now, so my followers know the fabric, so my give attention to this tour will certainly be the brand new album, making a world of that album and sprinkling all the pieces else round that,” she stated on Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen in December 2023. “However in fact we’re nonetheless going to have the identical enjoyable with our throwbacks like we at all times do. I at all times make sure that I carry out my rap stuff, my pop stuff, like, everybody enjoys themselves. I make sure that my followers really feel nicely fed on the present.”
Minaj’s subsequent scheduled present is on Wednesday, March 20 at State Farm Area in Atlanta, Georgia.
