{"id":279269,"date":"2019-09-05T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1070767"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:34:00","slug":"nicki-minaj-says-shes-retiring-from-music-to-have-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-says-shes-retiring-from-music-to-have-my-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Says She&#8217;s Retiring From Music to &#8220;Have My Family&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201946\/rs_600x600-190506174654-600-2019-met-gala-red-carpet-fashionsnicki-minaj.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.875457875458\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32.556776556777\">\n<p>Has the queen&#8217;s reign come to an end?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nicki_minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a><\/strong> took to Twitter on Thursday to share an important announcement with her fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to retire and have my family,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;I know you guys are happy now. To my fans, keep reppin me, do it til da death of me, in the box\u2014cuz ain&#8217;t nobody checkin me. Love you for LIFE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tweet certainly surprised her followers, and many wondered if the rapper was pulling a prank.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nicki stop this ain&#8217;t funny,&#8221; one commenter wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;m not prepared for this [right now].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please say sike,&#8221; added another.<\/p>\n<p>Others questioned if a fifth album would ever see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;@NICKIMINAJ WE NEED <em>NM5<\/em>,&#8221; a follower tweeted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, many pledged to support the star no matter what.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever decision you make, we want you to be happy,&#8221; a social media user claimed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.491709183673\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.838010204082\">\n<p>It certainly has been a summer of speculation for Minaj.&nbsp;Last month, the&nbsp;&#8220;Super Bass&#8221; star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1065716\/the-internet-is-dying-to-know-if-nicki-minaj-is-married-after-she-takes-boyfriend-s-last-name?query=nicki%20minaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changed her Twitter name<\/a> to &#8220;Mrs. Petty&#8221;\u2014leading many to wonder if she had tied the knot with&nbsp;<strong>Kenneth<\/strong> <strong>Petty<\/strong>. These rumors were fueled by the fact that the 36-year-old artist had already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1022949\/nicki-minaj-just-referred-to-her-boyfriend-kenneth-petty-as-her-husband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called Petty her husband<\/a>&nbsp;for months. A source also told E! News the two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1051731\/nicki-minaj-and-kenneth-petty-officially-get-marriage-license-despite-announcing-they-already-had-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got a marriage license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the &#8220;Anaconda&#8221; artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1053043\/nicki-minaj-sparks-pregnancy-rumor-with-her-red-lobster-drink-of-choice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked pregnancy rumors<\/a> in June after she enjoyed a Red Lobster dinner date with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/strong> for an episode of <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>. After the clip aired, she made it clear that &#8220;no alcohol was consumed in the making of our dinner date.&#8221; However, Minaj never addressed the rumors. Back in January, she also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1081706193632948224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> that she had already discussed baby names with her beau.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"54.645348837209\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.3410852713178\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve decided to retire &amp; have my family. I know you guys are happy now. To my fans, keep reppin me, do it til da death of me, \u274c in the box- cuz ain\u2019t nobody checkin me. \u2705 Love you for LIFE \ud83d\ude18\u2665\ufe0f\ud83e\udd84<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1169676721865412608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>If Minaj really is retiring, then she&#8217;s heading out with a bang (or rather a &#8220;Bang Bang&#8221;). She&#8217;s been nominated for 10 Grammys over the course of her career and has several chart-topping hits.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1070767\/nicki-minaj-says-she-s-retiring-from-music-to-have-my-family?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the queen&#8217;s reign come to an end? Nicki Minaj took to Twitter on Thursday to share an important announcement with her fans. &#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to retire and have my family,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;I know you guys are happy now. To my fans, keep reppin me, do it til da death of me, in the [&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":["post-279269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-24 11:51:41","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\/279269","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=279269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}