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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Emma Loffhagen

Nicki Minaj live at The O2 review: the queen proves why she's still the best

The first thing to get out of the way about Nicki Minaj’s sold out Pink Friday 2 London gig is that she showed up. A low bar, perhaps, but it was not necessarily a guarantee.

Last week, the 41-year-old Trinidadian rapper’s tour was thrown into chaos when, en route to Manchester’s already disaster-stricken Co-op Live arena for her first UK date, she was arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of “possessing soft drugs”.

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