Nicki Minaj apologizes to fans after getting arrested in Amsterdam: ‘I’ll have the lawyers & God take it from here’

Nicki Minaj apologized to a crowd gathered outside her hotel in Manchester for postponing a show.

“I love you and I’m sorry this happened tonight,” the rapper said, early Sunday morning, in a video posted online.

Minaj has posted a stream of comments and missives on X since the arrest and claimed to have “sooooooooo much video evidence. You wouldn’t believe it if I told you,” before noting that, “I’ll have the lawyers & GOD take it from here tho.”

Minaj appeared outside her hotel in Manchester early Sunday morning. mancpicss66 / SplashNews.com “I love you and I’m sorry this happened,” the rapper told the crowd. mancpicss66 / SplashNews.com

Minaj, 41, had been set to perform in Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena on Saturday as part of her “Pink Friday 2” tour but was forced to postpone after being held by by Dutch authorities on allegations she was carrying drugs.

She had earlier shared the name of her Manchester hotel in a post on X, and invited fans to see her.

“I’m going on the balcony so if you’re outside I’ll be able to see you & I may come downstairs. I’ll be out there for about an hour. Rlly (really) wanted to at least get to see you,” the “Bang Bang” singer wrote.

Minaj was forced to postpone after being arrested in the Amsterdam airport. Getty Images for Live Nation The “Bang Bang” performer live-streamed her arrest. NICKIMINAJ/X

She also wrote thanked fans “who prayed for me today…May you be blessed beyond your imagination.”

Minaj noted that she had been held in a jail cell for “5-6 hours,” and her plane didn’t “take off for another 20 minutes once I boarded. The flight was 50 mins.”

Hours before the cancellation was announced, Minaj live-streamed herself being told by police in Amsterdam that she was under arrest for allegedly “carrying drugs.”

Minaj was arrested for allegedly “carrying drugs.” NICKIMINAJ/X Minaj claims she was detained for five to six hours. NICKIMINAJ/X

In the video, an officer is shown telling Minaj that she needed to stop recording and enter a police vehicle.

However she refused and asked to speak to her lawyer. Eventually she calmly entered the car.

In another video, an official told Minaj that all her luggage needed to be searched on the suspicion that she was carrying more drugs.

“now they said they found weed & that another group of ppl have to come here to weigh the pre-rolls. Keep in mind they took my bags without consent,” she wrote Saturday morning on X.

Minaj at first refused to go into a police vehicle and asked for her lawyer. NICKIMINAJ/X The ordeal forced her to cancel a Manchester show. NICKIMINAJ/X

“My security has already advised them those pre-rolls belong to him. Oh yea & the pilot wants me to take my ig post down.”

Minaj noted the irony of being allegedly carrying marijuana in a country where it’s legal.

This is Amsterdam btw, where weed is legal,” she wrote.

The “Queen of Rap” suggested that her old management company may have been behind the arrest.

Dutch authorities confirmed that Minaj had been arrested “on suspicion of exporting soft drugs.” NICKIMINAJ/X Minaj noted the irony of being arrested for weed in a country where it’s legal. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

“All b/c I fired mngmnt who I found out for years were adding on 30-50K on my jet & pocketing it,” she alleged. “I fired a tour mngr recently who was doing the same thing & mad he got the boot. Their goal is to make me late, & to pocket 40K.”

Authorities in Amsterdam confirmed via X Saturday afternoon that Minaj had been released after being booked “on suspicion of exporting soft drugs” and fined.

Minaj also retweeted posts about singer Ari Lennox who was arrested at Amsterdam Airport in 2021 after authorities claimed she was “full of emotions” and arrested for disturbing public order.

The hitmaker is on tour with her “Pink Friday 2” tour. WireImage for Live Nation She is set to play Manchester on Thursday, May 30. WireImage for Live Nation

“She was “full of emotions”. She was arrested b/c she was full of emotions in AmsterDAM,” Minaj wrote. “Hmmmmm interesting. I didn’t know this was a “thing” there.”

The Barbie World” hitmaker then compared Lennox to Sandra Bland, a black woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Texas, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop.

“Who spoke up for her? Could’ve easily been another Sandra Bland incident. I’m so happy she made it out alive & well.”

Minaj is set to play in Manchester on Thursday, May 30.