Nicki Minaj Reveals She Was Fired From Red Lobster Before Her Music Career
Nicki Minaj had trouble holding onto jobs before her music career.
The Queens native was the guest speaker at Vogue’s Forces of Fashion event in New York City earlier this week, where she sat down with Eva Chen, the Vice President of Fashion at Meta.
When asked about her earliest jobs, Minaj confessed that she “would always get fired.”
“One of the big [times] was as a waitress at Red Lobster,” she continued. “People would come in and they wouldn’t leave a tip, and that’s rude. One day, this lady came in with her boyfriend, and they needed my pen to sign the credit card slip. I went back to the table, and not only did they not leave me a tip, but they took my pen!”
“That set me off for some reason,” Minaj explained. “I ran outside into the parking lot, and caught them just as they were turning out. I banged on their window and said, ‘Give me my pen!,’ and I banged on their window hard enough to break it. Then they told on me and I got fired.”
Minaj also commented on her latest tour, Pink Friday 2 World Tour was the highest-grossing female rap tour, grossing over $108 million over 34 dates.
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“I feel very grateful,” the Pink Friday 2 rapper said. “I have a very close-knit relationship with my fans, and they went very hard for me. Their emotion and passion always does something to me. I wasn’t expecting to have the highest anything, to be honest—I didn’t even know that I was in the running.
She continued, “But even if I didn’t have that, I would still be so grateful, because the time that I’ve spent with the Barbz at these shows has been healing for me. They said it was healing for them and their inner child, but it was healing for something within me as well.”
