Nicki Minaj’s husband facing Barbz backlash over ‘anti-gay slur’
Nicki Minaj (L) and Kenneth Petty (R) (Gotham/GC Images)
Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, is facing a backlash from the Barbz for allegedly using an anti-gay slur.
Petty appeared on Minaj’s TikTok Live on Friday (30 August) where the rapper was talking about not letting “anybody or anything steal” one’s joy.
He agreed, responding: “That’s right, especially little f*****s and f**k boys”.
The Barbz, the name given to devoted Minaj fans, were quick to call out his comments, taking to X/Twitter to condemn him, with some even criticising his wife for not reacting.
“I hate this man’s face,” one person wrote.
Another said: “Barbs ain’t gone check him though”, while someone else wrote: “Kenneth Petty says the F slur while on live with Nicki Minaj and she does nothing.”
But another fan claimed that Petty had said “heinous” not the slurs, while others claimed the Barbz weren’t annoyed because they aren’t “snowflakes.”
Petty, a registered sex offender, married Minaj in 2019. Their son, who the Pink Friday hit-maker calls “Papa Bear”, was born the following year.
In 1995, Petty was convicted of first-degree attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl. He spent four years in a New York prison. In July 2022, he was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in the state of California.
Last September, he was ordered to serve 120 days of home detention for violating the terms of his probation, after he appeared to threaten rapper Offset on social media.
