Nicki Minaj Apologizes For Nazi Imagery In "Only" Video

Nicki Minaj has apologized for the Nazi imagery in her lyric video for the track "Only" featuring Chris Brown, Drake and Lil Wayne.  





Just in case you have missed it, Minaj's clip uses symbols reminiscent of Nazi-era Germany, including having the performer's cartoon image stand as a dictator in front of soldiers wearing red arm bands similar to those worn by SS officers. An animated Chris Brown appears as a soldier, Lil Wayne as a businessman and Drake as a priest, has a similar look to the type of Nazi propaganda movies made by Leni Riefenstahl, featuring gas masks, warfare, explosions and an interlocking Y-M symbol (for the record label Young Money) that's drawn comparisons to swastikas.

On Monday, Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham H. Foxman, a Holocaust survivor himself, described the music video as "deeply disturbing" for evoking "Third Reich propaganda" and "unadulterated Nazi imagery." He also called it "troubling" that no one in her team spoke up before the clip's release.

Now Minaj, 31, is taking responsibility, claiming she is "sorry." On Tuesday morning, in a number of tweets, Nicki wrote: "The artist who made the lyric video for "Only" was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called "Metalocalypse" & Sin City." She explained: "Both the producer, & person in charge of over seeing the lyric video (one of my best friends & videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish." Then, the artist tweeted: "I didn't come up w/the concept, but I'm very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art."


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