Nicki and Drake: Just Friends?
Nicki Minaj + Drake = lots of rumors
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Getting Cozy - Photos of Nick and Drake getting cozy at Lil Wayne’s going away party may have helped spark the rumors of a romance. Ozone Magazine editor-in-chief Julia Beverly even tweeted, “pure speculation: I say these two are gonna hook up.” She may have given Nick and Drake some ideas.
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Miss Me - Drake's been linked to Rihanna and Teyana Taylor, but the idea of he and Nick as a couple sounded preposterous until he planted the idea in our heads on <em>Thank Me Later</em>'s "Miss Me." He raps: "I love Nicki Minaj, I told her I'd admit it/I hope one day we get married just to say we f***in' did it/And girl, I'm f***in' serious /I’m with it if you with it.”
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Crush on You - Only days after “Miss Me” leaked this past June, Drake recalled the first time he laid eyes on Nicki’s curvy physique. "Me and Nicki have a really playful relationship," Drake told DJ Envy. "When I was on tour ... I saw Nicki for the first time and, like, literally fell in love. She had this snap-back hat on that said 'Minaj.' She used to wear that every single day. She was like a theater student and she was so cold at rapping."
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Boy Stop - It turns out Nick doesn’t believe Drake, no matter how “f***in serious” he may be. The Harajuku Barbie scoffed at the idea of Drake having a crush on her when questioned about his “Miss Me” line. "Drake does not have a crush on me,” she told DJ Envy. “Drake knows how to get you guys' attention.”
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Un-Thinkable - To let Nick tell it, and later deny it, Drake told her he wrote Alicia Keys' "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" with her in mind. You know what else he told me he wrote for me?" she told Complex Magazine. "The Alicia Keys song 'I'm Ready.' I happen to love the song.’" She later downplayed the claim during an interview with Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97.
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Put It In a Love Song - Drake doesn't break character much. Sticking to his guns, Aubrey confirmed to BET.com that he wrote “Un-Thinkable” for Nicki. "It is [about Minaj], I’m not gonna lie," he said. "The concept came from a conversation that we had, or conversations we have.”
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Nicki > Kim - Drake, who typically doesn't get involved in feuds, was quick to come to Nick's defense when Lil' Kim began throwing darts her way. “I know you be calling women b*****s in sh*t but I can’t say you the baddest b***h,” Drake told Nick onstage at Hartford, CT’s Hot Jam concert. “I can’t do that because I respect you, I love you too much and you look too beautiful. So I just wanna say you the baddest woman to do this rap sh*t. I don’t give a f*ck what Lil’ Kim or nobody else is talkin about, you’re
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I Do - Things blew out of proportions when Nick decided to play into Drake’s make believe crush.On August 27, Nicki and Drake took to Twitter and set the social networking site ablaze when they joked about being husband and wife. "Please refer to @nickiminaj as Mrs. Aubrey Drake Graham and dont stare at her too long. She's finally mine. :)," Drake tweeted. Nicki replied, "Yes, its true. Drake and I tied the knot." Not!
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Damage Control - Nick and Drake’s Twitter wedding caused such a frenzy that Drizzy’s rep felt the need to deny the wedding.
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The Graham Bunch - Nick went from mocking whoever took Drake's i-love-nicki talk seriously, to planting seeds herself. Pun intended? “They’ll have Drake’s intelligence, his sarcastic wittiness that I love about him,” she told BBC Radio. “They’ll have his song writing skills. I think we’ll just make a creative bunch of kids. Wait, did I jus say me and Drake we’ll make kids? I think that would be like incest or something.”
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Kissing Cousins - Nick was right. Drake does know how to get our attention. Moments after performing “Up All Night” at Hot 97’s Thanksgiving Thank You Concert, Drake abruptly slammed his mic, planted one on Nicki and walked off stage. No one knows if they really kissed (Drake’s hoody conveniently covered both of their faces), but everybody ran with it.
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Moment 4 Life - Months after annulling their pretend marriage, Nicki and Drake tied the knot in Minaj's "Moment for Life" video. Though there's been much talk about the two kissing in the clip, they may have never locked lips as the camera angle suggests.
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Special Chemistry - Nick and Drake even seem close when the jokes stop. Shortly after “Moment 4 Life” premiered, Nick spoke on her and Drake’s chemistry. “That energy’s amazing,” Minaj told MTV’s Rap Fix. “Out of everyone I’ve shot a video with, I was the most comfortable with him. I just really have a special place for him. ’”
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Joke's on Us? - Six months after Drake's "Miss Me" line sparked the idea of this supposedly unfathomable romance off, the media can't seem to get enough of it. Some think it's a publicity stunt. The truth is it's absolutely brilliant. Twitter weddings and imaginary babies have helped cement the public's fascination with Drake and Nick, respectively, and in turn helped them sell records. Will Nicki and Drake ever be more than friends? Probably not. But we'll probably race to document the next chapter of their on