Minaj video panned for ‘Nazi’ imagery

Singer-songwriter Nicki Minaj took the rap for the incorporation of Nazi imagery into her new music video, released Saturday, in which red armbands, large red banners with the record label insignia emblazoned in black-and-white, and SS-like military troops prominently appear.

The teaser video for the “Only” single, in which Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, and Drake (whose mother is Jewish) also appear, features explicit if somewhat incoherent lyrics unrelated to the visuals.

In the animated clip, Minaj stars as a dominatrix/dictator, flanked by Drake, dressed as the pope, whose suggestive lines would likely make the pontiff blush.

Neither Minaj nor video director Jeff Osbourne has publicly responded to the critics, who claimed on Twitter and Reddit that the iconography was undeniably evocative of the genocidal regime.