{"id":2445815,"date":"2019-06-28T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=853408"},"modified":"2019-06-28T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:56:07","slug":"nicki-minaj-jimmy-fallon-chow-down-on-red-lobster-on-the-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-jimmy-fallon-chow-down-on-red-lobster-on-the-tonight-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj, Jimmy Fallon Chow Down on Red Lobster on \u2018The Tonight Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-8.46.16-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Before she was a world-famous megastar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nicki-minaj\/\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> worked at Red Lobster\u2026and got fired from about \u201cthree or four of them.\u201d When she appeared on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\"><em>The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> on Thursday night, host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-fallon\/\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> decided to whisk her away \u2013 in an appropriately hot-pink stretch Hummer limo \u2013 to one of the city\u2019s Red Lobsters for a blind date.<\/p>\n<p>The two of them dive into everything: the \u201cLobsterita\u201d drinks, the cheddar bay biscuits, how to crack a lobster and how exactly Minaj got fired. They even don uniforms and go upstairs to serve unsuspecting guests at the restaurant \u2013 let\u2019s just say that Fallon should steer clear of the food industry.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYmHOfgreOw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back at the studio, Minaj sat down with Fallon to play Wheel of Freestyle, where she had to incorporate the words \u201chexagon,\u201d \u201cyeti,\u201d and \u201cedible arrangement\u201d into a freestyle rap. Minaj not only pulled it off, but also threw in a shout-out to her new single \u201cMegatron\u201d for the fun of it (it <em>does<\/em> rhyme with hexagon).<\/p>\n<p>This past week Minaj released her music video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-megatron-video-watch-850339\/\">\u201cMegatron,\u201d<\/a> her first new solo music release since her 2018 album <em>Queen<\/em>. She also teamed up with Trina for the rapper\u2019s new single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-trina-baps-850210\/\">\u201cBAPS.\u201d<\/a> This past April, she made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-coachella-headlining-set-822243\/\">a surprise appearance<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\">Ariana Grande\u2019s<\/a> Coachella set to perform \u201cBang Bang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-jimmy-fallon-red-lobster-tonight-show-853408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before she was a world-famous megastar, Nicki Minaj worked at Red Lobster\u2026and got fired from about \u201cthree or four of them.\u201d When she appeared on&nbsp;The Tonight Show on Thursday night, host Jimmy Fallon decided to whisk her away \u2013 in an appropriately hot-pink stretch Hummer limo \u2013 to one of the city\u2019s Red Lobsters for [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:36:21","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}