Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | February 17, 2026
Nicki Minaj loves generative AI. For her last album, Pink Friday 2, she went wild with Midjourney images of “Gag City” that reeked of, “the record company cut off my promotional budget”, and she doubled down on it when she puked out that heinous Megan thee Stallion diss track.One would imagine that one of the biggest rappers of her era would have a few dollars in the bank to pay for a real art team, but it soon became clear that the bad plagiarism machine content was a good fit for Nicki. It’s an apt tool for her in her current era, where she has largely retired even trying to be creative in favour of having crash-outs on social media and sucking up to Trump. And now she’s using it to make weird selfies of herself with the President, because satire is dead and nothing makes sense anymore.
LO and, indeed, L. My favourite detail is that Nicki is counting one dollar bills. Really rolling in it, eh? Also, does his jacket say ‘Golf’ or ‘Jeff’? Even AI wants to talk about the files, Donnie!
Minaj has spent a lot of time recently cozying up to the hard-right, holding hands with Trump and pretending that she’s a new political firebrand as she spews garden variety homophobia at people like Don Lemon. It’s one of those turns to simpering irrelevance that was a long time coming for anyone who paid attention. This woman is friends with too many convicted sex criminals for her not to feel at home in MAGA World. I imagine this slop plays well to Trump’s base, which loves generative AI imagery and believes this sort of sycophancy is ‘owning the libs.’ Yes, boys, we’re super triggered. It’s like watching someone s**t themselves in an Arby’s while screaming about how they can’t see their kids anymore.
We could talk about Minaj’s political heel-turn more, but I already did it here, so check that out. I do think it’s fascinating how she has given up all pretences of artistry in favour of using the plagiarism bot that steals from more talented people and regurgitates it into a bastardized form without consent or care. MAGA loves stuff like ChatGPT because they love being able to lie with impunity, but because they also know it’s an insult to take someone else’s work and claim it as your own. They’re desperate to undo truth and creativity because they’re incapable of both. You need empathy, intellect, and wit to be a good artist. These people lack that. And now, so does Minaj. She just wants her grievance politics to be reflected in a sea of uncanny slop that takes no effort or time to churn out and never speaks back.
Well, that and there’s also the sadder fact that she probably really wants to pose like that with Trump, and he or his team said ‘no.’ You’re disposable to them, babe. Always have been.
