
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”.