Nicki Minaj's Most Controversial Artistic Moments

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Nicki Minaj on having an abortion as a teenager: - “I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.”(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Headed for Self-Destruction - Insensitive to what Malcolm X represents, the rapper used the famed image of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz holding a gun while looking outside his window –– protecting his family –– for the artwork for her single "Lookin' A**." Aside from the heat she received on social media, Malcolm X's family voiced their displeasure and Nicki apologized. The artwork was later labeled as the "unofficial" artwork.  (Photo: Cash Money Records) Pope John Aw Hell Naw  - YMCMB's first lady ruffled a few feathers when she walked the red carpet at the 2012 Grammy Awards escorted by a fake pope. The pre-show was all a big set up for her performance of "Roman Holiday," which included several Catholicism references and a clip from The Exorcist.Needless to say, the church folks weren't too happy as Nicki showed she wasn't afraid to jump off the cliff for artistic expression. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Cake, Cake, Cake - Nicki Minaj has accomplished the unthikable in her short yet exemplary career. She's established herself as one of the greatest MC's of all time and she's not even close to slowing down. In honor of her 33 birthday, lets take a look back at her most controversial moves as an artist. - Intro by George Chapman, Jr.Words by BET Staff(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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