Nicki Minaj responds to Nazi Scandal surrounding 'Only' Lyric Video

Nicki Minaj addressed the controversy surrounding the lyric video of her new song 'Only' featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, she wrote on Twitter that the video was influenced by the Cartoon Network and Sin City.

She added that the person in charge of the video, A. Loucas, was Jewish.

In the end, she apologized if the video offended anyone.

Nicki was accused of glorifying Nazism for incorporating some swastika-like and Nazi-army-like imagery throughout the video.

The Anti-Defamation League issued this statement:

Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism. The irony should be lost on no one that this video debuted on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” pogrom that signaled the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.

It is troubling that no one among Minaj’s group of producers, publicists and managers raised a red flag about the use of such imagery before ushering the video into public release.

This video is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era. The abuse of Nazi imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who can recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to make as a result of Hitler’s Nazi juggernaut.

You can check out the video for yourself below after Nicki's tweets.

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/532151721921748992

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/532152796124942337

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/532153631588376576