O2 Arena, London
After a troublesome time of feuds and jinxed gigs, the embattled rapper pulled out all the stops in a mammoth show
Staying power is fundamental to a long career in pop. Embattled rapper Nicki Minaj turns out to have vast reserves of it. Tonight, the curtains on the first British night of her troubled arena tour finally shut at 11.37pm, well after curfew. This rarely happens – unless you’re Bruce Springsteen, infamous for three-hour-plus sets, or rich enough to pay the fines without batting a false eyelash.
When Minaj finally disappears, to the closing strains of Starships, her 2012 mega-hit, it is in a cloud of shocking pink confetti, mounted on a giant frosted unicorn Pegasus with iridescent plastic wings. It’s actually hard to remember what occurred nearly three hours before, when rapper arrived on stage on the same camp steed. So much happens – the interludes seem to have interludes – as a decade-plus of music is flung, haphazardly, at her public alongside ample cleavage, twerking thighs, blinding metallic surfaces and busy hydraulics.
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