{"id":16613,"date":"2012-09-06T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:31:15","slug":"nicki-minaj-is-not-registered-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16613","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Is Not Registered To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <strong>Nicki Minaj<\/strong> makes the decision to endorse <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong> in the forthcoming election, she may want to take care of something first: registering to vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minaj<\/strong> was flooded with media clips Tuesday (Sept. 4) when a snippet from\u00a0 her lyrics on <strong>Lil Wayne&#8217;s<\/strong> Dedication 4 mixtape revealed that she is a Republican and voting for <strong>Romney<\/strong>. The line may have been blown out of proportion but in an age when\u00a0 personal information is just a Google search away, the 29-year-old was quickly exposed for her voting past, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, in the three states where she&#8217;s lived, <strong>Minaj<\/strong> is not registered to vote. Having resided in Georgia, New York and California the Young Money Barbie never seemed to find the time to fill out and mail in a registration card, or do it online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minaj&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Romney<\/strong> lyrics, although pretty self-explanatory, have been picked apart with a fine tooth comb, mostly due to the fact that she&#8217;s Black and got her footing in the Hip-Hop world. Placing her in both boxes brings forth the automatic assumption that she would be a supporter of<strong> President Obama<\/strong> who has a large majority of the Black vote, and has been praised by many of her partners in rhyme, including <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> and <strong>Young Jeezy<\/strong>. The idea that she would stand on the side of <strong>Romney<\/strong>, who offers very conservative views on topics like abortion and gay rights (the latter of which makes up a good portion of <strong>Minaj&#8217;s<\/strong> fan base, since there was\u00a0 a time when she announced herself as the first &#8220;gay rapper&#8221;), was jarring to many in the online world who littered the social media sector after hearing of her alleged allegiance to 65-year-old former governor.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, she never signed up to be a spokesperson for voting, but she had to know that the lyric was going to cause a little controversy, which may have been her intention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Nicki Minaj makes the decision to endorse Mitt Romney in the forthcoming election, she may want to take care of something first: registering to vote. Minaj was flooded with media clips Tuesday (Sept. 4) when a snippet from\u00a0 her lyrics on Lil Wayne&#8217;s Dedication 4 mixtape revealed that she is a Republican and voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}