Nicki Minaj was released from custody on Saturday, hours after she was apparently arrested by police in the Netherlands on suspicion of exporting soft drugs, authorities said.
The rapper was fined and allowed to “continue her journey,” police said in a translated post on X just before 4 p.m. ET.
Minaj, 41, was traveling from Amsterdam to Manchester, England, for a show on her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” when she was apparently arrested. Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, was scheduled to perform at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester on Saturday night but has been postponed, Live Nation UK said in an update.
“Despite Nicki’s best efforts to explore every possible avenue to make tonight’s show happen, today’s events have made that impossible,” the company said. “We are deeply disappointed by the inconvenience this has caused.”
Tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled show, the company said.
Police did not name the person detained, but when asked if it was Minaj, a spokesperson said officers “arrested a 41-year-old American woman at Schiphol Airport for possession of soft drugs.”
Earlier on Saturday, Minaj shared several posts on social media detailing the incident.
On a video she shared on X, the rapper is seen being told that his luggage needs to be searched.
“I’m sorry to say this,” says a man at the airport.
“But isn’t that what you planned to do from the beginning? Why didn’t you search before getting on the plane? — she responds.
The man says they did a “random quick check” but they need to open the luggage.
In subsequent posts, Minaj said she believed people were trying to “disrupt this tour” and lying to her.
“They took my luggage and when I asked where it was, they said it was on the plane. It couldn’t have been, I just stopped,” she said. “I never gave them my bags. They are refusing to let me see my own bags.”
In another post, she wrote: “They are getting paid a lot of money to try to sabotage my tour because soooo many people are mad that I was so successful and they can’t eat me. They were caught stealing money from my trips/jets. I was fired. Gone mad. Etc.”
“This is how they put things in your luggage,” said another.
During an Instagram Live, Minaj filmed police as they told her to get into a van so she could be taken to the station. In a post on X, the rapper said she was told she had to “step aside for 5 minutes to make a statement about my safety at the police station.”
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