--- title: "Jeff Bezos Name-Checked by Nicki Minaj in New Song" description: "The self-appointed Queen of Rap is back and has a new texting friend to boot." date: "2022-03-18" modified: "2022-03-18" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/nicki-minaj-jeff-bezos" categories: - "Future Society" - "Jeff Bezos" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "anti-vaxxers" - "entertainment" - "jeff bezos" - "music" - "nicki minaj" - "the digest" --- # Jeff Bezos Name-Checked by Nicki Minaj in New Song ![The self-appointed Queen of Rap is back and has a new texting friend to boot.]() *\Image: Getty Images/Futurism\* ## Ick Ick The self-appointed Queen of Rap is back — and has a new texting friend to boot. In her [new single with freshman rapper Coi Leray]() titled "Blick Blick," Nicki Minaj offers up her usual fare, but with a fun Easter egg that references the Amazon kingpin himself. At one point during her verse, Minaj gloats that she's been "textin' with Jeff Bezos (Bezos)," which both serves the image of her as an A-lister and also possibly references the (somewhat raunchy but mostly romantic) texts the Blue Origin CEO [sent to his mistress Lauren Sanchez]() in 2019, when he was still married. It's doubtful that Minaj, née Onika Tanya Maraj, is Bezos' new "alive girl" given both that she's married to and [seems mighty supportive of a convicted sex offender](). And also, that the Amazon executive chairman and Sanchez recently [went on a romantic eco-getaway to Colombia]() to learn about deforestation. https://twitter.com/intlbarbz/status/1504680684568334337 ## The Trini of It All Another potential damper into this alleged friendship stems from the last time Minaj crossed over into Futurism's beat, when she infamously claimed that a third-degree connection to her in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago [got an impotency-causing testicular infection]() from the COVID-19 vaccine. Unsurprisingly, there was [no evidence that such a person or infection]() had occurred. Then again, Bezos may not be that concerned about Minaj's anti-vax rhetoric given that last year, Amazon's charitable arm [gave more than $42,000 to anti-vax charities](), per a tax review by none other than the *Washington Post*, which he also owns. Though that's chump change for the man who's worth a whopping $178.9 billion dollars, it's not nothing — though he and Blue Origin have also [given hundreds of millions to COVID relief](), at very least. If Minaj and Bezos really are in cahoots, we want more than anything to know what they discuss. What would these two bizarre, divisible celebrities have to talk about? The possibilities, truly, are endless. **More on Minaj's tall tale:** *[Fauci: "No Evidence" That COVID Vaccine Injured Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Testicles]()* ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()