Fact-Checking Nicki Minaj: Is She Really a Republican Voting for Mitt Romney?
Max Read
"I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney/you lazy bytches are fukking up the economy," Nicki Minaj raps on Lil' Wayne's new mixtape Dedication 4. But is she really? While the credulous lamestream media is reporting on Minaj's pronouncement as the truth, we're more skeptical. So we've put the Gawker Fact-Checking Team (me) on the case and fact-checked her Romney endorsement as well as the rest of her verse on the song:
"I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney."
Fact check: Mostly false. A search of voter rolls in California and New York, where Minaj maintains homes, comes up empty; which means that not only is Minaj not a registered Republican voting for Mitt Romney, she's not voting at all unless she registers soon. (It's also unclear whether or not Minaj, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, is an American citizen.)