{"id":263482,"date":"2018-12-13T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-nicki-minajs-pda-filled-private-birthday-party\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:43:26","slug":"inside-nicki-minajs-pda-filled-private-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-nicki-minajs-pda-filled-private-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Nicki Minaj&#8217;s PDA-Filled Private Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181110\/rs_1024x759-181210131926-1024-nicki-minja.cm.121018.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Nicki Minaj\" alt=\"Nicki Minaj\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.266266266266\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.274274274274\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nicki_minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a><\/strong> was literally showered with love and affection at her 36th birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper and her rumored new boyfriend\u00a0<strong>Kenneth Petty<\/strong>\u00a0showed off a heavy amount of PDA at the celebrations hosted by DJ\u00a0<strong>Rah Ali\u00a0<\/strong>on Wednesday night. And even though nearly\u00a020 of Nicki&#8217;s closest friends gathered at The Lodge by STK in downtown New York City, the\u00a0<em>Queen\u00a0<\/em>performer\u00a0only had eyes for Kenneth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A source tells E! News, &#8220;Nicki and Kenneth were inseparable, making out and dirty dancing all night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When she and Kenneth weren&#8217;t smooching or twerking to the beats of <strong>DJ BAD\u00a0<\/strong>at the private venue, they were eating a tasty\u00a0dinner and mingling with friends like\u00a0<strong>DJ Clue\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Brooke Bailey<\/strong>. And, of course, they all sang Happy Birthday to the artist when a cake with sparklers was brought out.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like things are quickly heating up between Nicki and Kenneth. The\u00a0<em>Queen\u00a0<\/em>artist\u00a0and her new man just made things <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/994820\/nicki-minaj-and-kenneth-petty-make-their-relationship-instagram-official\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram official<\/a> this Monday, after hanging out for the past month or so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.665158371041\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.8190045248869\">\n<p>Minaj captioned a cozy-looking photo with Petty, 40, with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/adele\">Adele<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0lyrics, writing, &#8220;Did you ever make it out of that town where nothing ever happens?&#8230; it&#8217;s no secret&#8230; that the both of us&#8230; are running out of time&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.189295039164\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.845953002611\">\n<p>Throughout the week she continued to post intimate videos with Petty, even after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995036\/nicki-minaj-s-rumored-new-boyfriend-went-to-prison-for-manslaughter-and-attempted-rape\" target=\"_blank\">fans voiced concerns<\/a>\u00a0about his status as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nysexoffenders.com\/offender\/kenny-petty-7370\" target=\"_blank\">registered sex offender<\/a>. It was later revealed that, according to court records, Petty was convicted of attempted rape in the first degree in April 1995. However, this doesn&#8217;t seem to faze Minaj, who defended him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrOPp9FnWVN\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. She told her followers,\u00a0&#8220;He was 15, she was 16&#8230; in a relationship. But go awf Internet. y&#8217;all can&#8217;t run my life. Y&#8217;all can&#8217;t even run y&#8217;all own life. Thank you boo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old was also convicted of attempted manslaughter in March 2006 and was sentenced to\u00a010 years in prison in May 2006.\u00a0According to TMZ, Petty served seven years for &#8220;shooting a man&#8221; and was released in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Nicki!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/996436\/inside-nicki-minaj-s-pda-filled-private-birthday-party?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP\/REX\/Shutterstock Nicki Minaj was literally showered with love and affection at her 36th birthday party. The rapper and her rumored new boyfriend\u00a0Kenneth Petty\u00a0showed off a heavy amount of PDA at the celebrations hosted by DJ\u00a0Rah Ali\u00a0on Wednesday night. And even though nearly\u00a020 of Nicki&#8217;s closest friends gathered at The Lodge by STK in downtown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:53:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}